Abstract: Despite integration into the Round Table, Palomides is denied full access to the games that comprise Le Morte Darthur . In its reliance on an unwritten rules system, the romance, itself a sort of game, plays its 'Saracen' knight, forcing him to convert as part of the text's narrative resolution (BTH).

Abstract: This article analyzes the Old Yiddish Vidvilt and its German predecessor, Wirnt von Grafenberg's Wigalois , and argues that the Yiddish writer's approach to the story's magical and geographical elements distances it from the contemporary geopolitical themes, including courtly and Crusader culture, which are a primary concern of the German text (BB).