List of characters named Ywain in Arthurian legend

The following is a list of characters are named Yvain (or a variation of Yvain), mentioned in Arthurian legend. The work(s)in which they appear are italicized.[1]

  • Yvain li filz au roi Uriien; Ywain, Knight of the Round Table (based on the character of Owain mab Urien); Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniæ, protagonist in Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, prose Lancelot, Tristan, and Vulgate Suite Merlin
  • Yvain le Avoutres, Ywain the Bastard, Knight of the Round Table; Gawain's cousin Erec, Perceval, Suite Merlin, Lancelot, the Spanish Demanda, Tristan
  • Yvain li filz al roi Herveu; may be the same knight as Hervis/Hernil de Rivel in Prose Lancelot, Vulgate Suite Merlin, Suite Merlin
  • Yvain as Blanches Mains; Suite Merlin, Tristan, Lancelot, Malroy's Palamedes, Wauchier's Perceval, Demanda
  • Yvain li Esclains; Lancelot, Suite Merlin
  • Yvain de Cinel; Prose Lancelot, Suite Merlin, Vulgate Suite Merlin, Demanda
  • Yvain de Cavaliot; Erec
  • Yvain le rois de Lindezie; Le Biaus Desconëuz
  • Yvain li Biaus; Rigomer
  • Yvain li fiz a la Somiere; Rigomer
  • Yvain la Noirs; Tristan, Palamedes
  • Di Blonde Ywein; Torec
  • Iwan Penelöi; Lanzelet
  • Ivam de Canelones d'Alamanha; the Portuguese Demanda,
  • Yvan de Nesguses de Baybola; the Spanish Demanda
  • Ivains; the leader of the lepers in Béroul's Tristan

References

  1. ^ Brugger, Ernst. Yvain and His Lion. Modern Philology. 1941
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