Lohengrin
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Lohengrin is a character in German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival, he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity. His sto
Lohengrin by Walter Crane, 1895
Lohengrin by Ferdinand Leeke, 1916
Elsa and Lohengrin by Gaston Bussière (1910)
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 ask
Lohengrin
…by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity. His story, which first appears in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, is a version of the Knight of the Swan legend known from a variety of medieval sources. Wolfram's story was expanded in two later romances. Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin of 1848 is based…
A tapestry of 1482 showing episodes from the Knight of the Swan story: At the bottom puppies are substituted for babies.
Lohengrin postcard around 1900 by unknown artist