Editing Gaheris (section)

== Origin ==
[[File:Ambito di wiligelmo, porta della pescheria, 02 ciclo di artù 04,2.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Galvagin (presumed Gwalchmai/Gawain) being followed by Galvariun (possibly Gwalchafed/Gaheriet<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f899xH_quaMC&pg=PA135|title=Celtic Culture: A-Celti|date=4 April 2006|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781851094400 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Akyjim-4jA8C&pg=PA49|title=Cei and the Arthurian Legend|first=Linda|last=Gowans|date=4 April 1988|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|isbn=9780859912617 |via=Google Books}}</ref>) on the Italian [[Modena Archivolt]] (c. 1120-1240)]]

Gaheris and his brother [[Gareth]] likely originated from the same character of the only brother ever named for [[Gwalchmai ap Gwyar]], the figure from [[Welsh mythology]] traditionally identified with [[Gawain]]. This character, a prince named Gwalchafed [''Gwalhafed''] or Gwalhauet [''Gwalhavet''] ([[Old Welsh]] for "Hawk of Summer") ap Gwayr or mab Gwyar, mentioned in ''[[Culhwch and Olwen]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/n&q/figures.htm | title=Pre-Galfridian Arthurian Characters }}</ref> is a likely common source for both Gaheris and Gareth, if Gawain was indeed derived from Gwalchmai.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britannia.com/bios/ebk/gwalchgn.html|title=Britannia EBK Biographies: Sir Gwalchafed, Prince of Gododdin|website=britannia.com|access-date=5 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927150700/http://www.britannia.com/bios/ebk/gwalchgn.html|archive-date=27 September 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> A later French-influenced Welsh romance ''Seint Greal'' does in fact call Gwalchmei's brother Gaharyet.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYbrhmuJXtwC&pg=PA458A|title=Seint Graal|first=Robert|last=Williams|date=4 April 1876|publisher=Richards [Vol. 1], Quaritch [Vol. 2]|via=Google Books}}</ref>