- Vinaver , E. , ed. 1947 . The Works of Sir Thomas Malory Vol. III , 1423 Oxford
- Ibid., Volume I, p. 102.
- Chrétien , de Troyes . 1956 . Perceval Edited by: Roach , W. 1639 – 47 . Geneva
- The Works of Sir Thomas Malory Volume III, pp. 1606–07.
- Ibid., Volume III, p. 1576.
- Ibid., Volume II, p. 612.
- 1958 . Medium AEvum , 27 : 155
- Ibid., p. 156.
- Ibid., p. 155.
- Pauphilet , A. , ed. 1967 . La Queste del Saint Graal x – xi . Paris
- Chrétien , de Troyes . 1968 . Erec e Enide Edited by: Roques , M. 1671 – 74 . Paris
- Roman d'Eneas, vv. 8047 ff.
- Frappier , J. 1957 . Chrétien de Troyes 150 Paris and in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages ed. R. S. Loomis (Oxford, 1959), p. 167, note 4. Cf. also T. B. W. Reid, in his edition of Yvain (Manchester, 1948), p. xi.
- Arthurian Romances transl. by W. Wistar Comfort (London, 1951), p. 212. (Everyman Library)
- Ibid., p. 257.
- For an excellent discussion on desmesure in the Chanson de Roland see E. Faral, La Chanson de Roland (Paris, 1932), pp. 230 ff.
- The unfinished Perceval contains 9 234 verses. Of the other romances by Chrétien only Lancelot (7 134 verses) exceeds 7 000 verses. And in fact Chrétien deputed one Godefroi de Leigni to finish the writing of the Lancelot for him.
- Notably Becker, Hofer and Hoepffner. Cf. J. Frappier, in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, p. 188.
- J. Frappier, Chretien de Troyes (Paris, 1957), p. 173, and in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, p. 189.
- Translation by the author of this article.
- R. S. Loomis, Arthurian Tradition and Chrétien de Troyes (Columbia, 1961), pp. 478, 483 and 485.
- For example, by Fanni Bogdanow, in Medium AEvum 27, 1958, pp. 154–55.
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