* The book also mentions the addle-brained spirits that were never human, mentioned in The Queen of the Damned and The Witching Hour.

As the narration describes in chapter 1 about the naming of Don Quixote's steed, " Four days were spent in thinking what name to give him, because ( as he said to himself ) it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name, and he strove to adapt it so as to indicate what he had been before belonging to a knight-errant, and what he then was.

In more sublimated forms of knight-errantry, pure metaphysical idealism rather than romantic inspiration motivated the knight-errant ( as in the case of Sir Galahad ).

More than a beautiful visualization of the illustrious adventures and escapades of the tragi-comic knight-errant and his squire, Sancho Panza, in seventeenth-century Spain, this inevitably abbreviated rendering of the classic satire on chivalry is an affectingly warm and human exposition of character.

( Bevan is supposed to have told Beaverbrook on the phone: " I've got a young bloody knight-errant here.

A knight-errant is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature.

Although the character is part of the romance genre as it developed during the late 12th century, the term " knight-errant " itself is younger, for the first time recorded ( as knygt erraunt ) in

It is almost always defeated by a daring prince or knight-errant.

El Capitán Trueno is a 12th-century knight-errant, assisted by his faithful companions the cunning adolescent Crispín and the huge gourmandiser Goliath.

The bogatyr (; Old East Slavic богатырь, from baɣatur ( Modern Turkish: Bahadır ) a historical Turco-Mongol honorific ) is a stock character in medieval East Slavic legend ( byliny ), akin to a Western European knight-errant.

Alyosha Popovich (, literally Alexey, son of the priest ), is a folk hero of Kievan Rus, a bogatyr ( i. e., a medieval knight-errant ).

* A knight-errant is knight who is on a quest or errand.

Cervantes was making fun of this region, using a pun ; a " mancha " was also a stain, as on one's honor, and thus a hilariously inappropriate homeland for a dignified knight-errant.

They are depicted like of those of a knight-errant, wandering from place to place with no particular direction, often facing curious and hostile enemies, while saving certain individuals and communities from them in terms of own self chivalry.

* Tom Keogh, Amazon. com ( 2004 ) — The Complete First Season includes all the pleasures and surprises of the show's first mysteries, above all the tempestuous, symbiotic, and highly entertaining relationship between Wolfe ( Maury Chaykin ), a corpulent recluse who grows orchids and analyzes clues from a distance, and the acerbic knight-errant, Goodwin ( Timothy Hutton, also an executive producer on the series ), Wolfe's underpaid eyes and ears on the world.

He decides to go out as a knight-errant in search of adventure.

A tournament took place before James at Stirling, on 25 February 1449, between James, master of Douglas, another James, brother to the Laird of Lochleven, and two knights of Burgundy, one of whom, Jacques de Lalain, was the most celebrated knight-errant of the time.

By the later 14th century, the term became romanticized for the ideal of the young nobleman seeking to prove himself in honourable exploits, the knight-errant, which among other things encompassed the pas d ' armes, including the joust.

The damsel in distress was an archetypal character of medieval romances, where typically she was rescued from imprisonment in a tower of a castle by a knight-errant.

Other western genre themed manga and anime includes Cowboy Bebop and Kino's Journey, both who incorporate knight-errant adventure themes.

The adjective errant ( meaning " wandering, roving ") indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric virtues, either in knightly duels ( pas d ' armes ) or in some other pursuit of courtly love.

The template of the knight-errant are the heroes of the Round Table of the Arthurian cycle such as Gawain, Lancelot and Percival.

A knight-errant typically performed all his deeds in the name of a lady, and invoked her name before performing an exploit.

The knight-errant stock character became the trope of the " knight in shining armour " in depiction of the Middle Ages in popular culture, and the term came to be used also outside of medieval drama, as in e. g. The Dark Knight as a title of Batman.

It depicts the adventures of a modern American knight-errant visiting Europe on the verge of WWII and waging a single-handed, quixiotic struggle against the Nazis in various countries.

He was trying to recapture his youth, the spirit of the knight-errant.

Inevitably one version has the dragon slain by a knight-errant after the king of Sussex offers his daughter's hand in marriage to whoever rids them of the beast.

In his resignation speech, he addressed the cases of corruption of which he is being accused, saying he is " proud to be a citizen of a country in which a Prime Minister can be investigated like any other citizen ", but also stated he " was forced to defend from ceaseless attacks by the self-appointed soldiers of justice, who sought to oust from position ".

κλέφτες-kleftis, kleftes, which originally meant just " brigand ") were self-appointed armatoloi, anti-Ottoman insurgents, and warlike mountain-folk who lived in the countryside when Greece and Cyprus were a part of the Ottoman Empire.

Her ( self-appointed ) mission is to investigate the cause of the never ending blizzard afflicting Dezolis, coinciding with Chaz's goals when they meet.

Stasey took upon the role of Francesca ' Frankie ' Thomas, the self-appointed leader of the club, whose bossiness could cause friction, but who stood by her friends when the occasion arose.

Until the formation of a national council in 1961, supporters and local groups had no formal voice in the national organisation, which until then had been led by the self-appointed executive committee.

O ' Toole soon dropped her challenge, but the NIH, which had funded the contested paper's research, began investigating, thanks to the insistence of Walter W. Stewart, a self-appointed fraud buster, and Ned Feder, his lab head at the NIH.

Peasant bands under various self-appointed otamany which had been counted on the rolls of the UNR's army now attacked the Germans, later going over to the Directory in summer 1918 or to the Bolsheviks in late 1918 – 19, or home to protect local interests, in many cases changing allegiances, plundering so-called class enemies, and venting age-old resentments.

He had a fierce temper but also showed signs of considerable frustration over his self-appointed role of killer vigilante.

Her self-appointed mission was to investigate the fate of the 118 F section agents who had disappeared in enemy territory.

Indeed, by the end of the siege in the spring of 1944, nine of the institute's self-appointed seed guardians had died of starvation.

The Civic Forum had a very loose structure, and most of its ( self-appointed ) leaders came from Prague-based members of the Charter 77 dissident movement.

But in neither case can the appointing body be considered the original depositary of the power by which the delegates acted ; for the conventions were either self-appointed " committees of safety " or hastily assembled popular gatherings, including but a small fraction of the population to be represented, and the state assemblies had no right to surrender to another body one atom of the power which had been granted to them, or to create a new power which should govern the people without their will.

Like CND, the Committee of 100 had begun with a self-appointed and unelected leadership, and, like CND, it faced pressure for greater participation by supporters.

A self-appointed good Samaritan, he dauntlessly fought to clear the bad name of wolves, and would open every episode with his trademark introduction, “ I am Loopy De Loop, the good wolf .” Though he was always kind and helpful, his exploits usually got him arrested, beaten up, or chased out of town by the very people he had helped, all for no other reason than the prejudice of being a wolf.

As a self-appointed herdsman of the punks, Yohannan had a reputation as being notoriously difficult.

‎ Others simply belonged to powerful landowning families in Busoga that had become ‎ self-appointed rulers over vast areas.

) Dewhirst's faction believed that Mary Purnell had no right to usurp authority over the community, as it was led by his own self-appointed council of elders.