The Green Knight could also be interpreted as a blend of two traditional figures in romance and medieval narratives, namely, "the literary green man" and the "literary wild man."

In medieval Japanese narratives, Silla was associated with Empress Jingū's conquest of the three Koreas.

These were de rigueur in medieval religious narrative, but Bede appears to have avoided relating the more extraordinary tales; and, remarkably, he makes almost no claims for miraculous events at his own monastery.

Both Pandarus and other characters in the medieval narrative who carry names from the Iliad are quite different from Homer's characters of the same name.

Clearly there are some striking parallels between the medieval and modern narratives.

In the 1720s, the brief medieval narrative of Juansher was transformed into hagiography by the Georgian catholicos Besarion Orbelishvili, who refurbished the story with further details.

Modern scholarship outside of Georgia, notably Cyril Toumanoff, gives little credit to the medieval narratives, regarding both claimed biblical descent and descent from Guaram.

The medieval narratives of the life of Ibrahim are semi-historical.

His The Allegory of Love (1936) helped reinvigorate the serious study of late medieval narratives like the Roman de la Rose.

The Auchinleck manuscript is a codex of medieval narratives ranging from Saints' vitae to conversion tales.