Acrite

While the mixed Muslim and Christian descent of Digenes Acrites from the eleventh-century Byzantine protoromance was only signaled in his name, "Twyborn" (Beaton 1996:32-51), the child in The King of Tars terrifies the beholders with its carnal incompleteness and visible lack of any definable identity: & when be child was ybore Wel sori women were perfore, For lim no hadde it non.