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Reconfiguring Wace's Round Table: Walewein and the Rise of the National Vernaculars
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2005
- pp. 39-58
- 10.1353/art.2005.0018
- Article
- Additional Information
This article explores the possible origins of the Middle Dutch character Walwein in Wace's Roman de Brut. After first considering the character's name and his association with chess in Wace, it moves to a study of competing fourteenth-century French and Germanic models of empire.