183. 'I shall grudge you no good-will because of any harm that befalls
me.'
189-90. 'And acted as if he feared nothing: he would not tremble
(_dare_) with terror.'
196. 'He (Gawayn) who was ever valiant would have been dead from his
blow there.'
200. It must not be supposed that the chief incidents of _Sir Gawayne_
were invented by the English poet. The three strokes, for example, two
of them mere feints and the third harmless, can be shown to derive from
the lost French source, which has Irish analogues. See pp. 71-4 of _A
Study of Gawain and the Green Knight_ (London 1916), by Professor
Kittredge, a safe guide in the difficult borderland of folklore and
romance.
207. 'Nor did I raise any quibble in the house of King Arthur.' On
_kyngeȝ hous Arthor_ see note to II 518.
222. _ryueȝ_: the likeness of _n_ and _u_ in MSS. of the time makes
it impossible to say whether the verb is _riue_ 'to cleave', which is
supported by l. 278, or _rine_, OE. _hrīnan_, 'to touch'.
230. 'And look out for your neck at this stroke, <to see> if it may
survive.'