[Page 85, l. 10.] made a covenant, made an agreement; undertook.

[Page 85, l. 29.] couched their spears, put their spears in rest, and levelled them for the charge.

[Page 89, l. 13.] Camelot is identified by Malory with Winchester, but there is reason to believe that actually it was in Somerset.

[Page 90, l. 15.] a joust was a trial of strength between two knights.

[Page 91, l. 10.] token. It was the custom for knights to wear their ladies’ “tokens.”

[Page 91, l. 31.] burgess, citizen.

[Page 93, l. 2.] Sir Gawaine. Being the King’s nephew, the King took special interest in him.

[Page 93, l. 18.] press, throng, fight.

[Page 94, l. 11.] mêlée, thick of the fight.

[Page 95, l. 32.] Northgalis, North Wales.