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                            _Grimm Library_

                                 No. 15

                       THE THREE DAYS' TOURNAMENT
      (_Appendix to No. 12, 'The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac'_)




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                                  THE
                         Three Days' Tournament


                    A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore

      _Being an Appendix to the Author's 'Legend of Sir Lancelot'_

                                   By
                            Jessie L. Weston
            AUTHOR OF 'THE LEGEND OF SIR GAWAIN' ETC., ETC.


                                 London
                        Published by David Nutt
                       At the Sign of the Phoenix
                               Long Acre
                                  1902

               Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable




                                PREFACE


The Study comprised in the following pages should, as the title
indicates, be regarded as an Appendix to the Studies on the Lancelot
Legend previously published in the Grimm Library Series. As will be
seen, they not only deal with an adventure ascribed to that