INTRODUCTION. 
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brandt, is described as having accepted the chap¬ 
let but declined the salute. A monk, named 
Ilsan, however, who was one of the triumphant 
warriors, not satisfied with the rewards con¬ 
ferred on himself, demanded a chaplet and a kiss 
for each of the fifty-two monks of the convent to 
which he belonged. It is added that Chrym- 
liilde granted this boon ; though not until Ilsan 
had fought and conquered fifty-two of the offend¬ 
ing giants. 
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, 
tournaments lost much of the sanguinary cha¬ 
racter which had previously distinguished them. 
They became merely entertainments for the 
celebration of court festivals; and the combat¬ 
ants gained the prize of victory, not by wounds 
and bloodshed, but by broken lances, the frag¬ 
ments of which were presented to them as tro¬ 
phies of success. It was the etiquette of early 
times for a knight, on entering the lists at a 
tournament, to beg permission to wear the 
colours of the lady to whose service he was 
devoted ; but this practice was gradually suc¬ 
ceeded by that of wearing about the person any 
pledge of love which the knight solicited from 
