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Origin of the name YWAINE.
Etymology of the name YWAINE.
Meaning of the baby name YWAINE.

  

YWAINE.  Arthurian.  A knight of the Round Table.  The English form of French Yvaine, Welsh Owain, meaning "young warrior." (History of Christian Names, Yonge , 1884). 

    Ywaine and Gawin, the English version of "Owain and the Lady of the Fountain."  The English version was taken from the French of Chrestien de Troyes, and was published by Ritson (twelfth century).  The Welsh tale is in the Mabinogion.  There is also a German version by Hartmann von der Aue, a minnesinger (beginning of thirteenth century).  There are also Bavarian and Danish versions. (The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, &c., Brewer, 1910)

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