Sor une fauve mule et tint
En sa main destre une escorgie (5,991-2).
"Blacker were her face and her two hands than the blackest iron covered with pitch."
Ains ne véistes si noir fer
Come ele ot les mains et le cor (5,998-99).
"And she greeted Arthur and all his household except Peredur."
Le roi et ses barons salue
Tout ensamble comunalment
Fors ke Perceval seulement (6,020-3).
In the Mabinogi, Peredur is reproached for not having asked about the streaming spear; in Chrestien "la lance qui saine" is mentioned first although the Grail is added. Had Peredur asked the meaning and cause of the wonders, the "King would have been restored to health, and his dominions to peace."
Li rices rois qui moult s'esmaie
Fust or tos garis de sa plaie
Et si tenist sa tière en pais (6,049-51).
Whereas now "his knights will perish, and wives will be widowed, and maidens will be left portionless"—
Dames en perdront lor maris,
Tières en seront essilies,
Et pucièles desconsellies;
Orfenes, veves en remanront
Et maint chevalier en morront (6,056, etc.).
In the "Stately Castle" where dwells the loathly damsel, are five hundred and sixty-six knights, and "the lady whom he loves best with each," in "Castle Orguellos" five hundred and seventy, and not one "qui n'ait s'amie avoeques lui." "And whoever would acquire fame in arms and encounters and conflicts, he will gain it there if he desire it."
Que la ne faut nus ki i alle,
Qui la ne truist joste u batalle;
Qui viout faire chevalerie,
Si là le quiert, n'i faura mie (6,075, etc.).
"And whoso would reach the summit of fame and honour, I know where he may find it. There is a castle on a lofty mountain,
