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erman composer Richard Wagner’s of the Swan”). In this iteration he has become HIGH FANTASY
19th-century opera Lohengrin was the grandfather of Godfrey of Bouillon. This This 16th-century
inspired by the Swan Knight myth, first told in a chanson is part of the so-called Crusade Cycle, Flemish tapestry depicts
several scenes from a
late 12th-century text, the Dolopathos, in which an set during and just after the First Crusade. In the
French version of the
anonymous knight appears in a swan-drawn boat 13th century, German authors like Wolfram von
Swan Knight tale. The
and rescues a maiden. A few years later, the same Eschenbach and Konrad von Würzburg further knight’s mother, Beatrice,
figure cropped up in a chanson de geste (song of developed the Swan Knight’s story, and their is shown at the center.
heroic deeds), “Le chevalier au cygne” (“Knight work would form the basis of Wagner’s opera. AKG/ALBUM