without wind or compass, like the barques of the Phaeacians. Brunner and
Suchier add nothing positive to our knowledge, and M. Gaston Paris
pretends to cast but little light on questions which it is too curious to
consider at all. In revising the translation I have used with profit the
versions of M. Bida, of Mr. Bourdillon, the glossary of Suchier, and Mr.
Bourdillon's glossary. As for the style I have attempted, if not Old
English, at least English which is elderly, with a memory of Malory.