The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe beginning of the next year. Then everything changed. In his essay "It All Began With a Picture" Lewis continues: "At first I had very little idea how the story would go. But then suddenly Aslan came bounding into it. I think I had been having a good many dreams of lions about that time. Apart from that, I don't know where the Lion came from or why he came. But once he was there, he pulled the whole story together, and soon he pulled the six other Narnian stories in after him." The major ideas of the book echo lines
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion Ivan". The Valþjófsstaður door in Iceland, c. 1200, depicts a version of the "Yvain" story with a carving of a knight slaying a dragon that threatens a lion; the lion is later shown wearing a rich collar and following the knight, and later still the lion appears to be lying on the grave of the knight. (includes "Yvain") Yvain, the Knight of the Lion Yvain, the Knight of the Lion () is an Arthurian romance by French poet Chrétien de Troyes. It was written c. 1180 simultaneously with "Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart", and includes several references to the