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Geraint, with his wife Enid, from Idylls of the King (1868) Geraint is most famous as the protagonist in the Welsh tale Geraint and Enid, where he becomes the lover of Enid. Geraint and Enid is one of the three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion. Its story closely parallels the French writer Chrétien de Troyes's Erec and Enide. [3]
Idylls of the King, Geraint and Enid: Erec's wife Epinogres Sir Epinogres First Named in "King Arthur Meets Lady Guinevere" Howard Pyle Son of King of Umberland, and brother unto Enchantress Vivien, one of the original 32 Knights of the Round Table Erec† Unclear; first literary appearance as Erec in Erec and Enide, c. 1170 see Geraint and Enid
The innkeeper, unaware of Enid's trouble, tells the Earl where Geraint and Enid are going. The Earl and his men catches up with them. Geraint overthrows them all. Geraint is thought to be mad because of his continuous adventures which tire Enid. Geraint ends up being wounded by two giants. Another Earl, the Earl of Limours, takes him to his ...
"Enid and Geraint Reconciled", Louis Rhead and George Rhead's illustration for Idylls of the King (1898) Geraint and Enid, also known by the title Geraint, son of Erbin, is analogous to Chrétien de Troyes' 12th-century poem Erec and Enide; some scholars think the two derive from a common lost source, while others believe Geraint is based directly or indirectly on Erec (though Chrétien may ...
Maleagant (alternately Malagant, Meleagan, Meleagant, Meliagant, Meliagaunt, Meliagant, Meliaganz, Meliagrance, Meliagrant, Mellegrans, Mellyagraunce) is a villain from Arthurian legend. In a number of versions of a popular episode, Maleagant abducts King Arthur’s wife, Queen Guinevere, necessitating her rescue by Arthur and his knights.
By the end of Arthurian prose cycles (including the seminal Le Morte d'Arthur), the Round Table splits up into groups of warring factions following the revelation of Lancelot's adultery with King Arthur's wife, Queen Guinevere. In the same tradition, Guinevere is featured with her own personal order of young knights, known as the Queen's Knights.
On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries. Bonnie Wheeler and Fiona Tolhurst. Dallas: Scriptorium Press, 2001. 59–70. Print. — An analysis of Elaine of Carbonek’s dismissal from scholarly works because of her complex role in Arthurian literature. White, Terence Hanbury. The Once and Future King. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons ...
Following the conquest of their kingdom of Benoic (known as Benwick in English) by King Claudas, the death of her husband, and the taking of the infant Lancelot by the Lady of the Lake, Elaine becomes known as the Queen of Great Sorrows, living as a nun along with her sister Evaine, the widowed wife of King Bors and mother of Sir Lionel and Sir ...