ffins.]
FOOTNOTES:
[58] Sir Gawaine had been killed at Arthur's landing on his return from abroad. See the next ballad, ver. 73.
[59] [Ver. 41, 42, the folio MS. reads father ... sonne.]
[60] [serpent.]
[61] [pay for or expiate.]
[62] More commonly called, Caliburn. In the folio MS. Escallberd. [Percy notes in the MS. that "Caliburn was presented A.D. 1191 to Tancred, King of Sicily, by our King Richard I. See Rapin, vol. i.">[
[63] [Cologne steel.]
[64] Ver. 178, see MS.
[65] Not unlike that passage in Virgil.