Footnotes

Footnotes

[1]  Nouvelles françaises en prose du xiii ^ième siecle, par MM. L. Moland et C. D’Hericault.  (Paris: Janet, 1856.)

[2]  I have given a version of it in my English Fairy Tales, and there is a ballad on the subject entitled The 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 in The 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.