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* CanonWelding: ''The Knight of the Lion'' contains a few references to Guinevere's abduction, suggesting it's going on during the same time as ''Literature/LancelotTheKnightOfTheCart''. It's believed Chrétien was writing the two stories at the same time.
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Around 1200, Hartmann von Aue adapted it into German under the title ''Iwein''.
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* ABoyAndHisX: The eponymous Yvain and his lion.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Showing that even the subversion of this trope is as old as feudalism. Yvain is traveling in search of adventure and comes across a very large and scary-looking Moor. The man is so large and frightening that Yvain outright asks if he's some kind of ogre. Mildly insulted, the Moor instead says he's a man just like Yvain, and politely explains that he is a humble cow-herd tending his flocks. Yvain asks if there are any good adventures worth having for a knight to have in the region. The Moor doesn't know what he means by "adventure", so Yvain explains that knights ride around looking for great fights to get into with strangers (an inaccurate description, because knights are also supposed to defend the weak). The Moor says that sounds like a pretty silly way to live, but does helpfully suggest that he could probably find some good challenges in the forest of Brocéliande up ahead, and sends Yvain on his way.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Showing that even the subversion of this trope is as old as feudalism. Yvain is traveling in search of adventure and comes across a very large and scary-looking Moor. The man is so large and frightening that Yvain outright asks if he's some kind of ogre. Mildly insulted, the Moor instead says he's a man just like Yvain, and politely explains that he is a humble cow-herd tending his flocks. Yvain asks if there are any good adventures worth having for a knight to have in the region. The Moor doesn't know what he means by "adventure", so Yvain explains that knights ride around looking for great fights to get into with strangers (an inaccurate description, because knights are also supposed to defend the weak). The Moor says that sounds like a pretty silly way to live, but does helpfully suggest that he could probably find some good challenges in the forest of Brocéliande up ahead, and sends Yvain on his way.way.
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''Yvain, the Knight of the Lion'' (French: ''Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion'') is one of Creator/ChretienDeTroyes's five {{Chivalric Romance}}s and part of the Myth/{{Arthurian Legend}}s. It's the third or fourth of Chrétien's poems, written simultaneously with ''Literature/LancelotTheKnightOfTheCart'' between 1177 and 1181. It was written in Old French.
As a {{Public Domain Stor|ies}}y, ''Yvain, the Knight of the Lion'' can be found on Project Gutenberg [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/831/831-h/831-h.htm#link2H_4_0005 here]] and [=LibriVox=] [[https://librivox.org/yvain-or-the-knight-with-the-lion-by-chretien-de-troyes/ here]].
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As a {{Public Domain Stor|ies}}y, ''Yvain, the Knight of the Lion'' can be found on Project Gutenberg [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/831/831-h/831-h.htm#link2H_4_0005 here]] and [=LibriVox=] [[https://librivox.org/yvain-or-the-knight-with-the-lion-by-chretien-de-troyes/ here]].
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* AndroclesLion: Yvain helps a lion fight a giant serpent. The grateful feline then follows Yvain, saving his butt quite a few times.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Opens with the eponymous Yvain rescuing a lion from a large, fire-breathing serpent. No wings or legs or intelligence, just good old-fashioned Satanic imagery.
* ScaryBlackMan: Showing that even the subversion of this trope is as old as feudalism. Yvain is traveling in search of adventure and comes across a very large and scary-looking Moor. The man is so large and frightening that Yvain outright asks if he's some kind of ogre. Mildly insulted, the Moor instead says he's a man just like Yvain, and politely explains that he is a humble cow-herd tending his flocks. Yvain asks if there are any good adventures worth having for a knight to have in the region. The Moor doesn't know what he means by "adventure", so Yvain explains that knights ride around looking for great fights to get into with strangers (an inaccurate description, because knights are also supposed to defend the weak). The Moor says that sounds like a pretty silly way to live, but does helpfully suggest that he could probably find some good challenges in the forest of Brocéliande up ahead, and sends Yvain on his way.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Opens with the eponymous Yvain rescuing a lion from a large, fire-breathing serpent. No wings or legs or intelligence, just good old-fashioned Satanic imagery.
* ScaryBlackMan: Showing that even the subversion of this trope is as old as feudalism. Yvain is traveling in search of adventure and comes across a very large and scary-looking Moor. The man is so large and frightening that Yvain outright asks if he's some kind of ogre. Mildly insulted, the Moor instead says he's a man just like Yvain, and politely explains that he is a humble cow-herd tending his flocks. Yvain asks if there are any good adventures worth having for a knight to have in the region. The Moor doesn't know what he means by "adventure", so Yvain explains that knights ride around looking for great fights to get into with strangers (an inaccurate description, because knights are also supposed to defend the weak). The Moor says that sounds like a pretty silly way to live, but does helpfully suggest that he could probably find some good challenges in the forest of Brocéliande up ahead, and sends Yvain on his way.
