Blanchefleur

Blanchefleur ("white flower", also Blancheflor, Blancheflour, Blanziflor) is the name of a number of characters in literature of the High Middle Ages.

[5] As Peter Haidu notes in an article in Yale French Studies, "Blancheflor" is a "kind of stuttering repetition of identity", "white" and "flower'" both denoting purity.

[16] Professor Alan Baragona of the Virginia Military Institute, who calls Forrest Gump "virtually a bullet-pointed list of conventions from the Perceval tradition"[17] maps Blanchefleur onto the character Jenny in that movie, albeit a "modern, flawed, substitute" for her.

[19] The original Carmina Burana poem, named Si linguis angelicis Loquar et humanis[a] from its first line, of which Orff's is but a middle part, begins with what appear at first reading to be addresses to the Virgin Mary in Ave Maria style,[20][21] until reaching the "Blanziflor" line reveals the implication to be sexual rather than religious,[22][23] the "Helena" being Helen of Troy and the "Blanziflor" being the Blancheflour from Floris and Blancheflour.

[24] The Marian imagery of decus virginum in the poem connects to Blanziflor in that another title of the Virgin Mary is lilium, the lily, for which "blanchefleur" is a French description.