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50 from Chretien and speaks of the tree as a 'green pine':

Hartmann von Aue, who commonly agrees with Chretien even in details, here unexpectedly mentions 'a lime-tree, the most beautiful ever seen':

In the Middle High German saga of Ortnit and Wolfdietrich we more than once hear of a lime-tree in a context that recalls the story of Yvain. The Middle English metrical romance Ywain and Gawain, despite