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Enid in the Idylls of the King (1913), illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. Enide (Welsh: Enid) is a character in Arthurian romance. [1] She is married to Erec in Chrétien de Troyes' Erec and Enide, [2] and to Geraint in the Welsh romance of Geraint and Enid analogous to Chrétien's version.
Lionesse by Arthur Rackham for Alfred W. Pollard's The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1917). In some versions of Arthurian legend, Lynette (alternatively known as Linnet, Linette, Lynet, Lynette, Lyonet) is a haughty noble lady who travels to King Arthur's court seeking help for her beautiful sister Lyonesse (also Linesse, Lioness, Lionesse, Lyones, Lyonorr, Lyonors ...
Elaine the White, Elaine the Fair, The Lady of Shalott Le Morte d'Arthur, 1470 The Lady of Shalott: Daughter of Bernard of Astolat, classic Arthurian figure of unrequited love: Elaine of Benoic: Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century The Once and Future King: Wife of King Ban and mother to Lancelot, Evaine's sister Elaine of Corbenic: Amite ...
Henry Justice Ford's illustration for Andrew Lang's 1902 The Book of Romance, adapted from Malory. The possibly original version of the story appeared in the early 13th-century French prose romance Mort Artu, in which the Lady of Escalot (Demoiselle d'Escalot) dies of unrequited love for Lancelot and drifts down a river to Camelot in a boat. [2]
In the anonymous French prose romance Perceforest, a massive quasi-prequel to the Arthurian legend written c. 1330, the most beautiful, wise and honorable enchantress Sebile is known variably as Sebile of the Lake (Sebile du Lac) or the Lady of the Lake, Sebile of the Red Castle (Dame du Lac, Sebile du Chastel Vermei).
Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), alternatively written as Launcelot and other variants, [a] is a popular character in Arthurian legend's chivalric romance tradition. He is typically depicted as King Arthur 's close companion and one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table , as well as a secret lover of Arthur's wife ...
Angharad Golden-Hand (/ æ ŋ ˈ h ær ə d / ang-HARR-əd, [1] Welsh: [aˈŋ̊arad]; otherwise Angharat or Angharad Law Eurawc) [2] is the heroine of the Welsh Romance Peredur son of Efrawg, and associated with the Mabinogion. In the Welsh tale of Peredur, Angharad Golden-Hand is a lady of King Arthur's court. The tale relates how the ...
Throughout most of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, a late-medieval compilation highly influential for a common perception of Guinevere and many other characters today, she figures as "a conventional lady of [chivalric] romance, imperious, jealous, and demanding, with an occasional trait such as the sense of humor," until she acquires more depth and ...