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    Erec and Enide (French: Érec et Énide) is the first of Chrétien de Troyes' five romance poems, completed around 1170. It is one of three completed works...
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    Enide (Welsh: Enid) is a character in Arthurian romance. She is the wife of Erec in Chrétien de Troyes' Erec and Enide, and the wife of Geraint in the...
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    romance, Erec and Enide, later retold in Erec and other versions. Because of Erec and Enide‘s connection to the Welsh Geraint and Enid, Erec and Geraint...
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    National Narrative Award; El estrangulador (The strangler) (1994) and Erec y Enide (Erec and Enide) (2002). In 1992 he published Autobiografía del general Franco...
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  • Chrétien's Yvain, the Knight of the Lion Geraint and Enid, which corresponds to Chrétien's Erec and Enide. Peredur, son of Efrawg, which corresponds to Chrétien's...
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    the Holy Grail. Chrétien's chivalric romances, including Erec and Enide, Lancelot, Perceval and Yvain, represent some of the best-regarded works of medieval...
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  • motif, such as in the lai of Guigemar) and in parts of Arthurian lore, such as in the medieval poem of Erec and Enide. Saint Giles, a Catholic saint especially...
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    narrative works and dates from around 1185. An adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide, it is the first Arthurian Romance in German. Erec tells the...
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    Val sans retour (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    finger that puts him to sleep, and as such is able to imprison him for a time being. Some elements of Chrétien’s Erec and Enide, written around 1160-1164,...
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    development of Arthur's character and legend. Chrétien wrote five Arthurian romances between c. 1170 and 1190. Erec and Enide and Cligès are tales of courtly...
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  • Cligès (redirect from Cliges and Fenice)
    five Arthurian romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's...
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    episode paralleled in Erec et Enide has already broached in the plot summary above, under § Gerfalcon contest). This story of Erec and Enide has itself been...
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    Lancelot (category Heroes in mythology and legend)
    character: Chrétien de Troyes' Old French poem Erec and Enide (1170). The fact that his name follows Gawain and Erec indicates the presumed importance of the...
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    Yvain. A new son of Arthur, named Loholt, is introduced in Chrétien's Erec and Enide. Another significant new family-member is Arthur's other sister or half-sister...
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    Camelot (category Fictional buildings and structures originating in literature)
    Didot Perceval attributed to Robert de Boron, and even the early romances of Chrétien such as Erec and Enide and Yvain, the Knight of the Lion) have Arthur...
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  • Gilfaethwy (category Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology)
    or Giflet ) fils Do in the romance Erec et Enide by the twelfth century Champénois master Chrétien de Troyes and appears later as the eponymous hero...
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    romance Erec et Enide), in which he and two companions, a beautiful lady and a whip-brandishing dwarf, come across Gwenhwyfar, one of her handmaidens and the...
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    the count of Anjou and Arthur's steward, an office which he holds in most later literature. In Chrétien de Troyes's Erec and Enide, a son Gronosis is...
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    works, including the "Joie de la Cour" adventure from Chrétien's Erec and Enide and Calogrenant's death as told in the Queste del Saint Graal section...
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    romance, Erec and Enide, and it was a model for Dante's account of heaven and hell. Chaucer referred to the work in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" and especially...
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    then mysteriously disappears in a mist amongst sudden great storm. In Erec and Enide, an early Arthurian romance by Chrétien de Troyes, the consort of Morgan...
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  • the Knights of the Round Table and members of King Arthur's family. Their names often differ from version to version and from language to language. The...
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    Perlesvaus and Parzival (first mentioned in Erec and Enide). In the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Guinevere willingly becomes Mordred's consort and bears him...
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    romance, Erec and Enide, completed around 1170. In it, a love of Morgan (Morgue) is Guigomar (Guingomar, Guinguemar), the Lord of the Isle of Avalon and a nephew...
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    to Perceval is found in Chrétien de Troyes's first Arthurian romance Erec et Enide, where, as "Percevaus li Galois" (Percevaus of Wales), he appears in...
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    French poets. In Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (unlike his earlier Erec and Enide), the behavior of Lancelot conforms to the courtly love ideal; it also...
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    (Gaherïet) on the list of King Arthur's knights in the French poem Erec and Enide, written in the late 12th century by Chrétien de Troyes. He again appears...
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    Troyes in his first romance Erec and Enide, was originally the hero of a story independent of the adulterous love triangle and perhaps very similar to Ulrich's...
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    in multiple literary works since the 12th century Arthurian romance Erec and Enide, written by Chrétien de Troyes, in which they are eaten by characters...
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    Matter of Britain (category Breton mythology and folklore)
    body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly...
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