This elf is dwarfish in height, though very handsome. Huon had murdered Charlot, the Emperor's son, in self-defense, and so he must visit the court of the amir of Babylon and perform various feats to win a pardon. He was warned by a hermit not to speak to Oberon, but his courtesy had him answer Oberon's greetings and so gain his aid in his quest. Huon, son of Seguin count of Bordeaux, passed through the forest inhabited by Oberon. The name Oberon (as Auberon) is first attested to in the early 13th century chanson de geste entitled Les Prouesses et faitz du noble Huon de Bordeaux, wherein it refers to an elven man of the forest encountered by the eponymous hero.
In Old French, the name became Alberon and then Auberon. In the Nibelungenlied, a Burgundian poem written around the turn of the 13th century, Alberich guards the treasure of the Nibelungen, but is overcome by Siegfried. Oberon is derived from Alberich (from Old High German alb- "elf" and -rîh-, "ruler", "king"), the name of a dwarf from Germanic mythology. 4 Other historical and cultural references.
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