‘Hys schon wer with gold ydyght
And kopeth as a knyght.’
p. 43, [l. 1198 f.]: ‘None of them said a single word, But that Torrent had been right to do so as he had done.’
[St. 104]
p. 43, [l. 1211]. There is an evident contradiction between this line and [l. 1199]. I suppose the word waried to be wrong; but I am not able to give a fairly certain emendation of it.
[St. 106]
p. 44, [l. 1228 f.]: ‘The king had supposed he was dead, and, indeed, foolhardy he was to undertake an adventure like this.’
[St. 109]
p. 45, [l. 1268 f.] This fight between the giant Cate and Torrent reminds us in some points of the combat between Guy and Colbrond. Like the old northern holmganga, both fights take place on an island, and in both cases the giant declines to sit on horseback, because he is too heavy; cf. Guy of Warwike, Edinburgh, 1840, l. 9940 ff.:
‘When þai had sworn and ostage founde,