Meaning: Its source is Gwenhwyfar, a Welsh name meaning "Pure and yielding, whitewave."

Narrative: In British legend, Gwenhwyfar (the Welsh source of this name) was identified with King Arthur's tragic queen.

Caught as she was between her devotion to her husband and her illicit love for the saintly Sir Lancelot, her predicament is succinctly expressed in the meaning of her name.