Lais de María de Francia are twelve beautiful love stories that started a new order in literature, a feminized space that forever disrupted the tradition of the epic that prevailed in the 12th century. In these delicate tales — the earliest tales of European literature — Celtic legends are elevated to the category of myth and inaugurate the characteristic fabulous adventures of fairy tales. And so the white doe, the werewolf, the ghost ship, the goshawk that turned into a knight will fill the imagination of readers for centuries to come.