Le Roman De Renard

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Across
  1. 2. Dutchman who was the first to translate the tale into Dutch and English.
  2. 6. Vertigo comic series about fairytales living in New York, among which the fox and the lion king are a part. Later made into the adventure game The Wolf Among Us..
  3. 7. A pragmatic vixen, the fox's wife and mother of his kits.
  4. 9. A she-ape who defended the fox and gave him advice on how to defeat the wolf.
  5. 10. Battered she-wolf and wife of to the fox's nemesis.
  6. 12. The name of the monk who penned the Ysengrimus, one of the earliest versions of the story
  7. 13. A knight, husband and nemesis to Reynard
  8. 17. A ram who traveled to Maleperduys with the fox and the hare, carried the hare's head back to court and was executed.
  9. 18. Prince of cats, ends up in a noose after the fox promised him rats. Namesake of a character in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
  10. 20. The fox's favored burg located in the waaslands of Rupelmonde.
  11. 22. 1986 French TV series adapting the epic to take place in the eighties
  12. 23. Lioness Queen of Flanders, husband of the king and ally of the fox.
Down
  1. 1. Belgian county where the epic takes place.
  2. 3. The fox's second son, his name is derived from a part of the epic adapted by Chaucer.
  3. 4. 1937 film adaptation of the epic, one of the first movies to use stop motion animation
  4. 5. British writer who retold the story in greater detail during the 2020s and based it firmly back in Flanders.
  5. 8. A charming anarchic fox, and trickster.
  6. 11. The lion king of Flanders, who's court is in Ghent
  7. 14. A badger who is often an ally to the fox and friend to his family.
  8. 15. Polymath who translated the tale into German, as Reineke Fuchs.
  9. 16. The oldest son of the fox and his wife, his name later inspired a ballad.
  10. 19. Fearful hare, had an encounter with the fox who was disguised as monk.
  11. 21. A bear who's mind is mostly on food than on his task