Destrier between the Percheron and the Andalusian; and the Warlander, a cross between the Andalusian and the Friesian horse. A good destrier was expensive. 7th-century Salic law gives a price of 12 solidi as weregild, or reparational payment, for a war horse, compared to 3 solidi for a sound mare or 1 solidus for a cow. In later centuries destriers became even more expensive: the average value of each of the horses in a company of 22 knights and squires in the county of Flanders in 1297 compares to the price of seven normal coursers. The price of these destriers varied
Knight of the Swan a Swan Knight without a name. Wolfram's and Konrad's were used to construct the libretto for Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" (Weimar 1850). Another example of the motif is Brangemuer, the knight that lay dead in a boat tugged by a swan, and whose adventure was taken up by Gawain's brother Guerrehet (Gareth or Gaheris) in the first Continuation to Chrétien de Troyes' "Perceval". The "Swan-Children" appears to have been originally separate from the Godfrey cycle and the Swan Knight story generally. Paris identifies four groups of variants, which he classifies usually by the name of the mother of the swan