FOUR ARTHURIAN ROMANCES: EREC ET ENIDE, CLIGES, YVAIN, LANCELOT (The Medieval literature of Knights legend surrounding King Arthur) - Annotated Arthurian and Celtic Mythology

William Wistar Comfort

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Four Arthurian Romances are originally written in Old French, sometime in the second half of the 12th Century A.D., by the court poet Chretien DeTroyes. Translation by W.W. Comfort.

EREC ET ENIDE
A medieval romance explores a knight's conflict between love and honour in which Erec goes through many trials until he is sure of Enide’s loyalty and true love.

CLIGES: A ROMANCE
Originally written in Old French, sometime in the second half of the 12th Century A.D., by the court poet Chretien DeTroyes. Translation by W.W. Comfort, 1914. Cliges exalts the possibility of pure love outside marriage, while the haunting The Story of the Grail chronicles the legendary quest.

YVAIN OR THE KNIGHT WITH THE LION
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, who is rejected by his wife and performs a number of heroic deeds in order to regain her love. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart. Yvain seeks to avenge his cousin Calogrenant who had been defeated by an otherworldly knight beside a magical storm-making fountain in the forest of Broceliande.

LANCELOT OR THE KNIGHT OF THE CART
This medieval French romance is the oldest surviving work about Lancelot. When Queen Guinevere is abducted by Meleagrant, Lancelot must face many trials, physical, emotional, and social, to rescue her.
Lancelot is the first story to introduce Camelot's greatest knight and the love affair between him and Guinevere.