Erec and Enide

Erec and Enide
Erec and Enide
	The White Stag hunt in a medieval manuscript
Original title	French: Érec et Énide
Author(s)	Chrétien de Troyes
Language	Old French
Date	c. 1170
Genre	Chivalric romance
Verse form	Octosyllable rhyming couplets
Length	6,598 lines
Subject	Arthurian legend
Personages	Erec, Enide, Yder

Erec and Enide (French: Érec et Énide) is the first of Chrétien de Troyes' five romance poems, completed around 1170. It is one of three completed works by the author. Erec and Enide tells the story of the marriage of the titular characters, as well as the journey they go on to restore Erec's reputation as a knight after he remains inactive for too long. Consisting of about 7000 lines of Old French, the poem is one of the earliest known Arthurian romances in any language, predated only by the Welsh prose narrative Culhwch and Olwen.^[1]^[2]

^ Koch, J. T., Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2006, p. 861.
^ Duggan, Joseph J., The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Yale University Press, 2001, p. 200

[1] Koch, J. T., Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2006, p. 861.

[2] Duggan, Joseph J., The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Yale University Press, 2001, p. 200

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Erec and Enide
The White Stag hunt in a medieval manuscript
Original title	French: Érec et Énide
Author(s)	Chrétien de Troyes
Language	Old French
Date	c. 1170
Genre	Chivalric romance
Verse form	Octosyllable rhyming couplets
Length	6,598 lines
Subject	Arthurian legend
Personages	Erec, Enide, Yder