| LC control no. | no2020050707 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lohengrin (Legendary character) |
| Variant(s) | Loengrin (Legendary character) Loenhrin (Legendary character) Loennkrin (Legendary character) Loherangrin (Legendary character) Helyas (German legendary character) Knight of the Swan (German legendary character) Rōengurin (Legendary character) Swan-Knight (German legendary character) ローエングリン (Legendary character) Лоэнгрин (Legendary character) Лоенгрин (Legendary character) Лоенгрін (Legendary character) לוהנגרין (Legendary character) Λόενγκριν (Legendary character) |
| See also | Chevalier au cygne (Legendary character) |
| Other standard no. | Q3459538 19158733075533052966 |
| Associated country | Germany |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Huckel, Oliver. Lohengrin, son of Parsifal, 1905. LCSH, 15 April 2020 (Swan-knight; Helyas; Knight of the swan; Lohengrin) Wikipedia, 15 April 2020 (Lohengrin; Loherangrin; Knight of the Swan; Swan Knight; Лоэнгрин; Лоенгрін; ローエングリン; לוהנגרין; Лоенгрин ; Λόενγκριν ; character in German Arthurian literature; son of Parzival or Percival; knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity; story first appears in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival) Britannica online, July 29, 2022 (Lohengrin, German legendary figure; Lohengrin, the knight of the swan, hero of German versions of a legend widely known in variant forms from the European Middle Ages onward; The first German version of this old legend--which itself probably derives from a fairy tale of seven brothers who are persecuted by a wicked grandmother and then metamorphosed into swans--appeared in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival (c. 1210), a poem chiefly concerned with the theme of the Holy Grail. In this account the swan knight's name was Loherangrîn, and he was the son of Parzival (Perceval), the Grail hero, and heir to Parzival's title; he arrived in a swan-drawn boat from the castle of the Grail to aid Elsa of Brabant, married her, and in the end returned to the Grail castle; In a French version of the legend, the Chevalier au cygne, the knight of the swan (here called Helyas) married Beatrix of Bouillon, the story being arranged and elaborated to glorify the house of Bouillon. Godfrey of Bouillon, a leader of the First Crusade, was held to be the son of a mysterious swan knight. English versions of the legend, composed in the late 14th and early 16th centuries, were strongly influenced by this French account) Wikipedia, July 29, 2022: Knight of the Swan (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; The earliest versions (preserved in Dolopathos) do not provide specific identity to this knight, but the Old French Crusade cycle of chansons de geste adapted it to make the Swan Knight (Le Chevalier au Cigne, first version around 1192) the legendary ancestor of Godfrey of Bouillon. The Chevalier au Cigne, also known as Helias, figures as the son of Orient of L'Islefort (or Illefort) and his wife Beatrix in perhaps the most familiar version, which is the one adopted for the late fourteenth century Middle English Cheuelere Assigne; At a later time, the German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach incorporated the swan knight Loherangrin into his Arthurian epic Parzival (first quarter of the 13th century). A German text, written by Konrad von Würzburg in 1257, also featured a Swan Knight without a name. Wolfram's and Konrad's texts were used to construct the libretto for Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin) Wikipédia, July 29, 2022: Chevalier au cygne (Chevalier au cygne; legendary medieval character of Western Europe, attested from the 12th century) |
| Invalid LCCN | sh 85130993 |
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