| has gloss | eng: In Arthurian legend, Gringolet is Sir Gawains horse. A sturdy charger, Gringolet was known far and wide for his ability in combat. He appears in very many romances in several different languages, and the prominent translator and Arthurian scholar D.D.R. Owen suggested that that the French name Gringolet derived from either the Welsh gwyn calet ("white-hardy"), or ceincaled ("handsome-hardy"). His earliest appearance is in Chrétien de Troyes Erec and Enide; in that poem he is borrowed by Sir Kay to joust against Erec. Even Gringolet cannot prevent Kay from losing to the protagonist. In the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, Gawain wins Gringolet from a Saxon warrior; a different story of the acquisition is given in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, where the horse bears the mark and comes from the stable of the Grail castle. |