LE CHEVALIER DE LA CHARRETTE
Summary of poem 40-42
Structure of poem confused and unsatisfactory--Probable
reasons for this 42-46
Versions of Guinevere's imprisonment--Comparison with
Siegfried-Brynhild story--Legend primitive and in earliest
form unlocalised--Localisation points to an insular
redaction 46-49
Relation between Chrétien's poem and other versions--Malory's
version cannot be proved to be drawn from prose _Lancelot_--
_Iwein_ certainly independent of _Charrette_--_Parzival_
doubtful--Two latter possibly represent earlier version,
imperfectly known by Chrétien 49-53