{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.