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[1]Nouvelles françaises en prose du xiiiièmesiecle, par MM. L. Moland et C. D’Hericault. (Paris: Janet, 1856.)
[2]I have given a version of it in myEnglish Fairy Tales, and there is a ballad on the subject entitledThe Cruel Knight.
[3]See Clouston,Book of Sindibad, p. 279.
[4]Figured in M. Ulysse Robert,Signes d’infamie au moyen âge, Paris, 1891. Lovers of Stevenson will remember the effective use made of this inThe Black Arrow.
[5]It has been suggested that the names of our heroes have given rise to the proverbial saying: “A miss (Amis) is as good as a mile (Amile),” but notwithstanding the high authority from which the suggestion emanates, it is little more than a pun.
[6]For occurrences of this incident in sagas, etc., see Grimm,Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer, 168–70; in folk-tales, Dasent,Tales from the Norse, cxxxiv.–v.,n.xviii
[7]Mr. Hartland has studied the “Lifetoken” in the eighth chapter of his elaborate treatise on the Legend of Perseus.