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Dutch Romances I: `Roman van Walewein', ed. David F. Johnson and Geert H. M. Claassens, Arthurian Archives VI (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). 541 pp. ISBN 0-85991-584-0. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. In 1992 David Johnson published the first dual-language edition of the remarkable Middle Dutch Gawain-romance Walewein. This edition has now been reissued in the Arthurian Archives series. The edition is scholarly; all textual emendations are listed in an appendix. The facing translation is adequate but uninspired, and so a poor substitute for the original. Take, for example, Gawain's ...