Ondine (play)
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Ondine is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, based on the 1811 novella Undine by the German Romantic Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué that tells the story of Hans and Ondine. Hans
Jan Żardecki and Joanna Jedlewska in Ondine, Warsaw, 1965
Knight-errant
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A knight-errant is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. The adjective errant indicates how a knight would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric virtues.
Ondine (play)
…Jean Giraudoux, based on the 1811 novella Undine by the German Romantic Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué that tells the story of Hans and Ondine. Hans is a knight-errant who has been sent off on a quest by his betrothed. In the forest he meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water sprite who is attracted to the world…
The Knight Errant by John Everett Millais (1870)