Book II. begins with what M. Paulin Paris called the _Agravain_ section

of the prose _Lancelot_, _i.e._ the _Enfances_, _Galehault_, and _Charrette_ portions are not included.[160] The first 36,000 lines follow the course of the _Lancelot_; at line 36,947 it takes up the _Perceval_ at the point of the arrival of the Grail messenger, and for about two thousand lines goes on to give an account of the achieving of the adventures mentioned by her. In some points the compiler agrees closely with Chrétien and seems to have followed his version, in others he departs entirely from any known version of the _Perceval_. Sometimes his names agree rather with Wolfram than with Chrétien; _e.g._ the lady is Orgeloise simply, not L'Orguelleuse de Logres; and Gawain's challenger is Ginganbrisil, a form which Professor Yorke Powell pointed out some years ago as the probable source of Wolfram's Kingrimursel.

L. 41,420, we have a visit of Gawain to the Grail castle, agreeing closely with that found in the Montpelier _Perceval_, and also, Dr. Jonckbloet informs us, with that contained in a German version of the _Perceval_ preserved at Rome (cf. Jonckbloet, vol. i. p. xxiv.), adventures of Gariette and Griflette, and the fight between Gawain and Ginganbrisil, which ends in the victory of the former, and the king of Scavalon becoming Arthur's 'man.' This again is not recounted elsewhere.[161]

Ll. 42,540-47,262 contain the romance of _Morien_, son of Agloval, the hero of which bears a curious resemblance to Wolfram's Feirefis. In this romance occurs the episode of Lancelot's conflict with a monster, which I have examined in chap. iii. This concludes Book II.