Erec
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Sir '''Erec''', the son of [[King Lac]], is a [[Knights of the Round Table|Knight]] of the [[Round Table]] in [[Arthurian legend]]. He features in numerous Arthurian tales (notably the [[Post-Vulgate]] Cycle), but he is most famous as the protagonist in [[Chrétien de Troyes]]' first romance, ''[[Erec and Enide]]''. Because of ''Erec and Enide''‘s relationship to the [[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''[[Geraint and Enid]]'', Erec and [[Geraint]] are often conflated or confused.
In Chrétien's story, Erec meets his future wife [[Enide]] while on a mission to defeat a knight who had mistreated one of [[Guinevere]]'s servants. The two fall in love and marry, but rumors spread that Erec no longer cares for knighthood or anything else besides his domestic life. Enide cries about these rumors, causing Erec to prove his abilities, both to himself and to his wife, by guising the adventure as a test of Enide's love for him. He has her go on a long, torturous trip with him where she is forbidden to speak to him. She breaks his conditions several times to warn him of danger, and after a number of adventures that prove both his love and his abilities, husband and wife are reconciled. When Erec's father Lac dies, Erec inherits his kingdom.
==See also==
* [[Eric]]
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