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ID: 901000763
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000763
Record Type: Character/Person

Enide (character, Arthurian legend)

Note: In Arthurian legend, the wife of a prince and knight of the round table, named "Erec" in Chrétien de Troyes' "Erec and Enide" and "Geraint" in the Welsh "Geraint and Enid." Enide meets the hero while he is on a mission; they fall in love and marry. Their union suffers through various misunderstandings in both legends, but they are finally reconciled.

Names:
Enide (character, Arthurian legend) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
Enid (character, Arthurian legend) (Welsh-P,U,N)
Enid (character, Arthurian legend) (English,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Literature and Performing Arts (P)
....<Literary characters> (P)
........Arthurian legend characters (literary characters) (I)
............Enide (character, Arthurian legend) (I)
Related Iconography:
is actor for .... Arthurian legend
..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Literary themes and narratives, Arthurian legend (British legends, by 12th century)) [901001139]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... noblewomen
.....(nobles by gender, nobles (aristocrats), aristocrats, people by state or condition, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
role/characteristic is .... literary characters
.....(characters (people by activity), people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Ancient British
.....(Ancient European, European, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Enide (character, Arthurian legend)
................Archibald and Putter, Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend (2009)
................Lupack, Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature (2005)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Enid (character, Arthurian legend)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Archibald and Putter, Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend (2009)
................Lupack, Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature (2005)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Lupack, Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature (2005)
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 29 December 2015
................ Archibald and Putter, Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend (2009)

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