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Guinevere , often written as Guenevere or Gwenevere,〔(Google Ngram search for common spellings )〕 was the queen consort of King Arthur in the Arthurian Legend. In medieval romances, one of the most prominent story arcs is her love affair with Arthur's chief knight Sir Lancelot. This story first appeared in Chrétien de Troyes's ''Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart'' and became a motif in Arthurian literature, starting with the Lancelot-Grail Cycle of the early 13th century and carrying through the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Thomas Malory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur''. Guinevere and Lancelot's betrayal of Arthur preceded his eventual defeat at the battle of Camlann by Sir Mordred. ==Name== The Welsh form , which seems to be cognate with the Irish name ', can be translated as "The White Enchantress" or "The White Fay/Ghost", from Proto-Celtic '' *Uindo-'' "white, fair, holy" + '' *seibara'' "magical being" (cognate with Old Irish ''síabair'' "a spectre, phantom, supernatural being (in pejorative sense )").〔Dictionary of the Irish Language (ed. E G Quin et al., Royal Irish Academy, Dublin 1913-76; Letter S, Column 205, electronic version at http://www.DIL.ie)〕〔Some have suggested that the name may derive from ', or "Gwenhwy the Great", as a contrast to ', or "Gwenhwy the less". Gwenhwyfach appears in Welsh literature as a sister of Gwenhwyfar, but Welsh scholars Melville Richards and Rachel Bromwich both dismiss this etymology (with Richards suggesting that Gwenhwyfach was a back-formation derived from an incorrect interpretation of Gwenwhy-far as Gwenhwy-fawr). See: Richards, Melville, "Arthurian Onomastics", in: ''Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion'', vol. 2, 1969, p. 257.〕 Geoffrey of Monmouth rendered her name as ラテン語:Guanhumara in Latin (though there are many spelling variations found in the various manuscripts of his ''Historia Regum Britanniae)''. The name is given as Guennuuar in Caradoc's Vita Gildae, while Gerald of Wales refers to her as . In the 15th century Middle Cornish play ''Bewnans Ke'', she was called Gwynnever. A cognate name in Modern English is Jennifer, from Cornish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Omaha )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guinevere」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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