Gawain the Brown (Gauvain li Brun) is a knight in the existing fragments of the Enfances Gawain. Gawain the Brown christens the new-born boy, who is King Arthur’s nephew, and names Gawain after himself. A character who corresponds in part appears in the Perlesvaus. A hermit named Gawain appears in the Vulgate Mort Artu (and from there is barely mentioned in the English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur). The corresponding character in the Life of Saint Gregory is the “old knight”. There is only a hint of this character in De ortu Waluuanii.