lls ring for Mass, and they go to the main church to hear the Mass and
service; they go to pray at the cathedral. You would have seen weeping
with joy the father of Queen Enide and her mother, Carsenefide. In truth
this was her mother's name, and her father's name was Liconal. Very
happy were they both. When they came to the cathedral, the procession
came out from the church with relics and treasures to meet them. Crosses
and prayerbooks and censers and reliquaries, with all the holy relics,
of which there were many in the church, were all brought out to meet
them; nor was there any lack of chants made. Never were seen so many
kings, counts, dukes, and nobles together at a Mass, and the press was
so great and thick that the church was completely filled. No low-born
man could enter there, but only ladies and knights. Outside the door
of the church a great number still remained, so many were there come
together who could not get inside the church. When they had heard all
the Mass they returned to the palace. It was all prepared and decorated:
tables set and cloths spread five hundred tables and more were there;
but I do not wish to make you believe a thing which does not seem true.
It would seem too great a lie were I to say that five hundred tables
were set in rows in one palace, so I will not say it; rather were there
five hails so filled with them that with great difficulty could one make
his way among the tables. At each table there was in truth a king or a
duke or a count; and full a hundred knights were seated at each table. A
thousand knights served the bread, and a thousand served the wine, and a
thousand the meat--all of them dressed in fresh fur robes of ermine. All
are served with divers dishes. Even if I did not see them, I might still
be able to tell you about them; but I must attend to something else than
to tell you what they had to eat. They had enough, without wanting more;
joyfully and liberally they were served to their heart's desire.

(Vv. 6947-6958.) When this celebration was concluded, the King dismissed
the assemblage of kings, dukes, and counts, of which the number was
immense, and of the other humble folk who had come to the festival.
He rewarded them liberally with horses, arms and silver, cloths and
brocades of many kinds, because of his generosity, and because of Erec
whom he loved so much. Here the story ends at last.

----Endnotes: Erec Et Enide

NOTE: Endnotes supplied by Prof. Foerste