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Origin of the name GAWAIN.
Etymology of the name GAWAIN.
Meaning of the baby name GAWAIN.
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GAWAIN. English
Arthurian. A knight of Arthur's Round Table. From Old
English Walweyn
(q.v.), from Latin Walwanus
(q.v.), from ancient Welsh Gwalchmai (q.v.),
meaning "hawk of
battle." (Mabinogion,
Guest, 1910).
In Welsh
pedigrees, he is Arthur's nephew, son of his sister Ernnos and of Llew,
king of Lothian and Orkney. He probably had a real existence, for
the Triads celebrate him as one of the three golden-tongued
knights of Britain, one of the three learned ones of Britain, and one of
the three most courteous men towards strangers. In a Welsh poem,
he is represented as using his courteous tongue in behalf of his friend
Trystan; and in the Mabinogion, in the "Lady of the Fountain,"
he takes such a prominent part, that the French romance is called that
of Sir Yvaine and Sir Gawaine. Walganus and Walwyn had Latinized
the Hawk of Battle, and have caused it to be confounded with the
Teutonic Walwine, slaughter-lover; but the Gwalchmai of Wales can be
identified with the Gawain, or Wawyn, of romance by his friendship with
Trystan, his relationship to Arthur, and his title in the romances of
the Flower of Courtesy. (History of Christian Names, Yonge,
1884)
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