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Knight of the Swan
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The story of the Knight of the Swan, or Swan Knight, is a medieval tale about a mysterious rescuer who comes in a swan-drawn boat to defend a damsel, his only condition being that he must never be asked his name.
Today, the story is probably best known as that of Lohengrin, son of the Grail knight Percival. The Lohengrin version forms the plot of Richard Wagner's opera of that name, which is based on the medieval German romance Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach.
However, the Knight of the Swan tale was originally attached to the family of Godfrey of Bouillon,[1] first conqueror of Jerusalem in 1099, in the French chansons de geste known as the "Crusade cycle".
In Brabant the name of the Knight of the Swan is Helias.
- ^ Holböck, Ferdinand; Michael J. Miller, translator (2002). Married Saints and Blesseds. Ignatius Press, p. 147. ISBN 0898708435.
- Holböck, Ferdinand; Michael J. Miller, translator (2002). Married Saints and Blesseds. Ignatius Press, p. 147. ISBN 0898708435.