Four Arthurian Romances -Cliges-

It tells the story of the knight Clig s and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice. Because of the story's de-romanticized depiction of adultery, it has been called a criticism or parody of the Tristan and Isolde romances. Clig s scholar Lucie Polak not only verifies the Tristan and Isolde reworking found in the text, but also suggests that Clig s may be modeled after Ovid's character Narcissus.