Gawain

Chretien de Troyes has Yvain and Gawain fighting anonymously for hours without stopping until night forces them to draw back.

As Gawain rides along the bank of a creek, he hears this sickening sound ringing from above.

Gawain is less a personality than a piece of granite, a man “whose glory waxed / as times darkened.”

Numerous mistakes have thus arisen, such as rolke for rokke (a rock) in Gawain Douglas, and many more of the same kind.

This metre was also employed by Gawain Douglas in his translation of Vergil.

Gawain does not pay court to Elaine, nor does Arthur rebuke him, as in the poem.

The poet will now for a while recount the adventures of Gawain; whom many have held to be as valiant a knight as Parzival.

No such adventures are recorded in any Romance that has come down to us; but they are quite in keeping with Gawain's character.