Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In Arthurian legend, Sir Yvain is the central character of Chretien de Troyes' The Knight with the Lion. He rescues a lion from a serpent and earns its comradeship. In the course of that story, Yvain marries a woman who he made a widow, loses her love, and spends most of the rest of the tale trying to rewin it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.