The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac

en's poems an im

urian legend partly historic, partly romantic-

reater extent and of wider diffusion than supposed-E

c tradition-Former of strongly marked Celtic-Irish cha

s involved in oral transmission-Mr. Hartland's evidence on this point-The Breton lais folk-lore in character-

and a different method of criticism from that applicable to tales of purely literary invention-Professor Foe

tatements made elsewhere by Chrétien-Strong probability that the tale,

n, and Perceval probably an impor

Chrétien's poems eviden

ms and the Welsh versions-Resemblance do

esent investigation, and their bearing upon pos