Matter of Britain Document
Le Chevalier au Lion (Yvain)
- Summary
- Yvain wins a lady by killing her husband, is granted leave for a year of tournaments, overstays, goes mad, and must rebuild himself with a lion for a companion. Chretien's most balanced work.
- Date
- c. 1180
- Language
- Old French
- Author
- Chretien de Troyes
Worldviews
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH