Feirefiz

Feirefiz (also Feirefis, Feirafiz, Ferafiz, Firafiz[1]) is a character in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Arthurian poem Parzival.

[2] While serving the "Baruch" of "Baldac" (Baghdad), French knight Gahmuret defends Belacane, queen of the heathen nation of Zazamanc, from her enemies.

Belacane would not allow her husband to participate in tournaments, so he leaves one night and travels to Spain to seek knightly combat in secret.

Feirefiz would not fight an unarmed man, so he puts an end to the duel, asserting that Parzival would have won the battle had his sword held out for one more blow.

Anfortas then says he may marry his sister, Repanse, and see the Grail as soon as he renounces his heathen god Jupiter and his pagan wife, Secundille.

He marries the Grail bearer Repanse de Schoye, and, after celebrating Parzival's coronation, Feirefiz and his new wife return to his lands in the east.

According to C. B. Caples, many seem to think that this shows that Feirefiz was meant to be a metaphor of Parzival's young and unruly side of himself that was inclined to sin.

Wolfgang Harms also agrees with this point, citing similar reasons, chief among them being Feirefiz's ability to marry the Grail King's daughter.