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 asked his name. The earliest variants of the story appear in French chansons de geste attached to the family of Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Later, the German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach included a version in his Grail epic Parzival. Wolfram's version inspired two later romances and the opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner. There's also a german textversion from 1257 introducing the Swan Knight as a nameless hero written by Konrad von Würzburg.
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