Page [141], line 397—'A woman's voice make moan.' This meeting with the maiden after the visit to the Grail Castle is in most versions the only one. In Chrêtien she now tells the hero his name which he learns or guesses for the first time. It was not improbably this incident which led either Wolfram, or his source, to place a first meeting earlier in the story while still retaining one in the original position. Wolfram, with characteristic love for detail, follows up the history of Siguné far more fully than other writers of the cycle.
Page [142], line 427—'Monsalväsch.' Probably 'Mont Sauvage,' in allusion to its wild and lonely position. A full account of the Grail and its keepers is given in Book IX. pp. 270, 271.
Page [143], line 463—'Lunete.' A character in Hartmann's Iwein, from which the episode is quoted. Cf. Book IX. p. 252, and opening of Book XII.
Page [144], line 475—'Trebuchet.' This name is also given in Chrêtien; he is alluded to again p. [147], and in Book IX. p. 281, in connection with the knives of silver mentioned in line 498 of this book.
Page [147], line 595—'Tenabroc.' Also p. [133], line 146. This name is borrowed from Hartmann's Erec. Chrêtien has 'Danebroc.'
Page [147], line 601—'Beàlzenan.' According to Bartsch this name is combined from Provençal, beal, fair; enan, height='the fair height,' which would suit very well with the position of Angers, the capital of Anjou.
Page [152], line 760—'Wild Taurian, Dodine's brother.' Cf. Book IX. p. 265. Taurian does not seem to have been identified, but Dodine appears, in many of the Arthurian romances, always with the title of 'Le Sauvage.' So we find him named in Malory. Wolfram seemed to have transferred the characteristic from one brother to the other.
Page [155], line 849—'Iofreit the son of Idöl.' This is the French name Geoffrey. Mentioned again in Book VI. line 168. Most critics identify this character with Chrêtien's Giflès li feus Do.
BOOK VI
TRADITIONAL EVENTS
| Blood drops on the snow and love-trance of hero. | Chrêtien: Peredur. |
| Overthrows Kay and Segramor. | (Perceval Li Gallois relates a similar incident of Gawain.) |
| Hero is cursed by Grail messenger for his failure to ask the question. | Chrêtien: Peredur. (In Perceval there is a cursing by Merlin.) |