knight-errant
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thumb|The Knight Errant (painting)|The Knight Errant by [[John Everett Millais (1870)]]
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- Description
- Chivalric romance
- Analogues
- Russian folklore
- East Asian folklore
- Modern literature
- See also
- References
thumb|The Knight Errant (painting)|The Knight Errant by [[John Everett Millais (1870)]]
A knight-errant (or knight errant) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. The adjective errant (meaning "wandering, roving") indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric virtues, either in knightly duels (''pas d'armes) or in some other pursuit of courtly love.
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