"Yonec" is one of the Lais of Marie de France, written in the twelfth century by the French poet known only as Marie de France. Yonec is a Breton lai,...

d'Arthur Marie de France 12th Anglo-Norman Lais of Marie de France: Lai de Yonec, Lai de Frêne, Lai de Lanval (...) Nennius 9th Latin Historia Brittonum...

Tree') Bisclavret ('The Werewolf') Lanval Les Deux Amants ('The Two Lovers') Yonec Laüstic ('The Nightingale') Milun Chaitivel ('The Unhappy One') Chevrefoil...

imprisonment may take the form of actual incarceration by elderly husbands, as in Yonec, and in Guigemar, where the lady who becomes Guigemar's lover is kept behind...

perhaps influenced by the Old Norse translation of Marie de France's poem Yonec and the Eddaic Völundarkviða. King Eiríkr of Greece has a beautiful daughter...

Ages. An example of the motif is found in one of Marie de France's Lais, "Yonec", though the lai develops somewhat differently: instead of a happy ending...

noted it developed a medieval motif, but such tales as Marie de France's Yonec produced a rather different effect, being tales of adultery. A variant on...

Milun focuses on the birth of an illegitimate child, much like the Lai of Yonec. Bloch points out other elements such as imposition of a father's unhappy...

Breton lais as well, particularly the land of "Fayerye". Marie de France's Yonec, for example, describes a woman following a trail of blood left by her lover;...

Bisclavret and the anonymous Melion, a knight turns into a werewolf; in Marie's Yonec, a knight turns into a hawk. Tests to prove prowess and win a maiden's hand...