The loathly lady (Welsh: dynes gas, Motif D732 in Stith Thompson's motif index), is a tale type commonly used in medieval literature, most famously in...

favoured by some scholars.[citation needed] The tale is an example of the "loathly lady" motif, the oldest examples of which are the medieval Irish sovereignty...

Some narratives of this type correspond to folk-tale motif D732, the Loathly Lady, in Stith Thompson's Motif-Index. This trope has been identified as 'one...

Ragnell) is a 15th-century English poem, one of several versions of the "loathly lady" story popular during the Middle Ages. An earlier version of the story...

in Sir Walter Scott's work The Bridal of Triermain (1813) Gwendolen, loathly lady in Reginald Heber's Fragments of The Masque of Gwendolen (written 1816...

late emanation is Lugaid Luaigne. Lugaid (disambiguation) Dáire Lugh Loathly Lady O'Rahilly, passim ed. Bhreathnach & Murray simply a later spelling Edel...

and the loathly lady, which has been preserved in fuller form in the medieval poem The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle. The loathly lady episode...

Ragnelle), his wits, virtue, and respect for women frees his wife, a loathly lady, from her curse of ugliness. The Child Ballads include a preserved legend...

exacts his revenge. Perceval agrees to join the court, but soon after a loathly lady enters and admonishes Perceval once again for failing to ask the Fisher...

of an elderly woman (contrasting from the beautiful Lady Bertilak in a role evoking the loathly lady tradition), as a test for Arthur and his knights and...