[ 181 rian romance. Chrétien, Percevalroman, ed. Hilka (Halle, 1932), ll. 7849— 70; Paien de Maisières, Damoisele à la Mule, ed. B. Orlowski (Paris, 1911), II. 634-741 ; Artus de la Petite Bretagne, MS in New York Public Library, fo. 54r, 54v. These lions seem to be realistic developments from the monsters which Cuchulainn encountered in Curoi's revolving fortress. Loomis, pp. 443f. [L] 75. There seems to be some connection between this adventure and one related in the Welsh tale of Peredur, which is also based on a French or Anglo-Norman romance. There, too, we have—as well as fights with a lion and with giants—a sympathetic maiden pledging the good faith of a youthful knight to her father, the lord of a perilous castle. Loth, II, 83-87. Jones, pp. 203-5. [L] 76. MS W, 1. 1941 : "Und sluoc im hinden in dem schart" ; MS P: “und schluog in hinten in den scrat." Hahn, following a bold emendation of Lachmann, prints : "und sluoc in hinden lideschart." A bothersome passage. Is it possible that there could be some confusion here over Germ. scharte in the sense of "crotch" ? That is a proper region to wound a giant. Cf. alliterative Morte Arthure, ed. E. Björkmann (Heidelberg, 1915), 1. 1122. [W] 77. The ministrations of Ade to Lanzelet may have influenced those of Queen Arnive to Gawain after his combat with lions in the Schastel Mar- veile, as described by Wolfram, Parzival, trans. into modern German by W. Stapel (Hamburg, 1937), pp. 332�36. M. J. Hughes, Women Healers in Medieval Life and Literature (New York, 1943), pp. 9-11. On women as nurses of the wounded, cf. ibid., pp. 50—59; Schultz, I, 200-202. [L] 78. The word is wip, i.e. woman or wife. If at any stage of the story's development Ade was Linier's mistress and he her valor-tester, or if in some nearer version she was his wife, the circumstance has been elaborately re- modeled. [W] 79. Modern Cardigan in Southwestern Wales. As Zimmer pointed out in ZFSL, XIII (1891), 87f., the Welsh always called the town Aber Teivi, but the Normans early in the twelfth century built a castle there and called it the castle of Caradigan after the county, Ceredigiaun, in which it lay. Zimmer rightly argued that the introduction of this place name into Arthurian romance must have been due to the Breton story-tellers who flocked into Anglo-Norman Britain after the Norman Conquest. Cf. n. 59. [L] 80. Chrétien made Erec the hero of his famous poem. The immediate origin of the name is Breton Guerec, which was borne conspicuously by a count of Nantes in the tenth century. R, XXV (1896), 588. It was ap- parently substituted by Bretons for the name Gweir, for two Gweirs, sons of