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    "Yonec" is one of the Lais of Marie de France, written in the twelfth century by the French poet known only as Marie de France. Yonec is a Breton lai,...
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    d'Arthur Marie de France 12th Anglo-Norman Lais of Marie de France: Lai de Yonec, Lai de Frêne, Lai de Lanval (...) Nennius 9th Latin Historia Brittonum...
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  • Tree') Bisclavret ('The Werewolf') Lanval Les Deux Amants ('The Two Lovers') Yonec Laüstic ('The Nightingale') Milun Chaitivel ('The Unhappy One') Chevrefoil...
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    imprisonment may take the form of actual incarceration by elderly husbands, as in Yonec, and in Guigemar, where the lady who becomes Guigemar's lover is kept behind...
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  • noted it developed a medieval motif, but such tales as Marie de France's Yonec produced a rather different effect, being tales of adultery. A variant on...
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  • Milun focuses on the birth of an illegitimate child, much like the Lai of Yonec. Bloch points out other elements such as imposition of a father's unhappy...
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  • perhaps influenced by the Old Norse translation of Marie de France's poem Yonec and the Eddaic Völundarkviða. King Eiríkr of Greece has a beautiful daughter...
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  • Breton lais as well, particularly the land of "Fayerye". Marie de France's Yonec, for example, describes a woman following a trail of blood left by her lover;...
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  • Ages. An example of the motif is found in one of Marie de France's Lais, "Yonec", though the lai develops somewhat differently: instead of a happy ending...
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    ljóð (Guigemar) Guruns ljóð (source unknown) Januals ljóð (Lanval) Jonet (Yonec) Laustik (Laüstic) Leikara ljóð (Lecheor) Milun (Milun) Naboreis (Nabaret)...
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