Since the events of the Continuations are fairly complex and not widely known, I provide narrative summaries below to help orient the reader. The division of the First, Second and Manessier Continuations into episodes follows William Roach's editions, which also provide more detailed summaries. For the Gerbert Continuation, no such editorial analysis exists, and so I have compiled my own list of episodes, giving line numbers from the CFMA editions.

First Continuation

Branch I: Guiromelant

(MR 1–2053; LR 1–5508; SR [L] 1–1070; SR [A] 1–1176)

1. Gauvain's messenger requests Arthur's presence at Gauvain's duel.

2. Arthur and his followers arrive and the king meets his mother and sister, whom he had thought dead, at the Chastel des Merveilles.

3. Guiromelant arrives with his followers for the duel.

4. Gauvain and Guiromelant fight while Clarissant, torn between her brother and lover, begs Arthur in vain to intercede.

5. [ALSPR] Clarissant brings about a reconciliation and is married to Guiromelant with Gauvain's blessing.

6. [DEGMQTUV] Clarissant's intervention secures a postponement to the following day. By the next morning, Arthur has married Clarissant and Guiromelant. Furious, Gauvain leaves the court.

7. [EGU only] Gauvain kills a knight who has stolen a damsel's ivory horn and is given a magic ring as a reward. A dwarf reminds him of his promise to rescue the besieged damsel of Montesclaire. After surviving a revenge attack from followers of the dead knight (the knight's wounds having bled as soon as he approached the corpse), he defeats a knight sworn to fight all on behalf of a maiden intent on achieving revenge on Greoras, and releases twenty maidens from imprisonment by the couple.

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