The interpretation takes its initial bearings from the unsettling and frequently comical effect of the "Crône" and proceeds hermeneutically to relate this aesthetic response to the specific formal peculiarities of the work. In terms of the thought patterns informing the poetics of the early Arthurian romances, the "Crône" proves to be a logical and consistent development fully in line with the earlier models. Ultimately, the narrative mode displayed by the text and the bizarre or comical effect it has are conditioned by a shift in the distribution and interplay of forces obtaining between the traditional schemata still playing a constitutive role in the generation of meaning.