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How can one story become romance, myth, or horror just by changing how it’s told? This week, we return to Erec & Enide, cross-examining its French chivalric romance, the classic Welsh, and the darker German version, to show how you can take a single plot and reshape it by tone, culture, and genre, giving you a powerful way to remix adventures and surprise your TTRPG players without reinventing the wheel.
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Citations & References
Primary
Blaisdell, Foster W., and Marianne E. Kalinke, translators. Erex Saga and Ívens Saga . U Nebraska Press, 1977.
Chrétien de Troyes. “Erec and Enide.” The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes , translated by David Staines, Indiana UP, 1993, pp. 1–86.
Davies, Sioned, translator. The Mabinogion . Oxford UP, 2007. Oxford World’s Classics.
Gantz, Jeffrey, translator. The Mabinogion . Dorset Press, 1976.
Guest, Charlotte, translator. The Mabinogion . 1877. J. M. Dent & Sons, 1906. Everyman’s Library.
Hartmann von Aue. Erec . Translated by Michael Resler, U Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Hartmann von Aue. Erec . Translated by Thomas L. Keller, Garland Publishing, 1987. Garland Library of Medieval Literature (Series B) 12.
Thomson, Robert L., editor. Ystorya Gereint uab Erbin . Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies / Dundalgan Press, 1997. Medieval and Modern Welsh Series 10.
Secondary
Gramuglia, Anthony. “The Reason Wonder Woman & Thor Break Myth ‘Canon’ (feat. Red from OSP).” YouTube , 16 May 2025. Link .