less literally
means "who will defeat the entire field". Though Chretien refers to the
expression as a current proverb, only two other examples of its use
have been found. (Cf. "Romania", xvi. 101, and "Ztsch. fur romanische
Philologie", xi. 430.) From this passage G. Paris surmised that Chretien
himself was a herald-at-arms ("Journal des Savants", 1902, p. 296), but
as Foerster says, the text hardly warrants the supposition.]

[Footnote 424: The evident satisfaction with which Chretien describes in
detail the bearings of the knights in the following passage lends colour
to Gaston Paris' conjecture that he was a herald as well as a poet.]

[Footnote 425: According to the statement made at the end of the poem
by the continuator of Chretien, Godefroi de Leigni, it must have been at
about this point that the continuator took up the thread of the story.
It is not known why Chretien dropped the poem where he did.]

[Footnote 426: Bade = Bath. (F.)]

[Footnote 427: The situation recalls that in "Aucassin et Nicolette",
where Aucassin confined in the tower hears his sweetheart calling to him
from outside.]

[Footnote 428: The figure is, of course, taken from the game of throwing
dice for high points. For an exhaustive account of dice-playing derived
from old French texts, cf. Franz Semrau, "Wurfel und Wurfelspiel in
alten Frankreich", "Beiheft" 23 of "Ztsch. fur romanische Philologie
(Halle," 1910).]

[Footnote 429: Alexander's horse.]

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