^{page 540 note 1} Potvin's ed. Conte du Graal, vol. i, p. 97 ff. For an English translation see Evans' High History of the Holy Grail, Everyman's Library ed., pp. 99–102.

^{page 541 note 1} San Marte, Beiträge zur bretonischen und celtisch-germanischen Heldensage, p. 60.

^{page 541 note 2} Geoffrey of Monmouth, Hist. Reg. Brit., x, 3; the so-called “Suite” Merlin, or Livre d'Arthur, Pt. ii, fol. 105; Layamon, Brut, v. 11957 ff.; Malory, Morte Barthur, i, 24, where the version represents a fusing of the Merlin details with those of the Chevalier aux Deux Épées; Drayton, Polyolbion, song 4; the ballad of King Rience's Challenge (Furnivall's ed. Robert Laneham's Letter, pp. 41–2).

^{page 541 note 3} The Old French Grail Romance of Perlesvaus, p. 104 n.

^{page 543 note 1} A recent study by Professor Reed Smith involving Spenser's treatment of sources (The Metamorphoses in “Muiopotmos,” MLN. xxviii, 3, 82–5) bears out my statements.

^{page 543 note 2} Nothing can be more far-fetched and absurd than the parallel set up by Dr. Marie Walther (Malory's Einfluss auf Spenser's Faerie Queene, pp. 41–2) between Briana's tender of her hand and her castle to Calidore and the incident in Malory, x, 64, where the people of the Red City offered Sir Palamides one-third part of their goods after he defeated two brethren who had put them in “fear and damage.”

^{page 554 note 1} Cf. the Temple of Venus allegory (iv, 10) with the garden of Sir Mirth in the Roman de la Rose.