Excerpt from The Knight of the Lion: Translated and Adapted From the French of Chrétien De TroyesThe story of the sources of the Clze'valier an lion, literally, The Knight with the Lion, is long, uncertain, and fascinating, but it need not detain us here except in one feature: Chrétien's romance is closely paralleled by the story of Owain or The Lady of the Fountain in the collection of the Welsh Mabinogion, translated into English by Lady Charlotte Guest. Their relationship is not yet fully established, but the most likely suppo sition is that they are independent versions going back to a common, non-extant original.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.