In the article “The Hind Episode in Marie de France’s Guigemar and Medieval Vernacular Poetics,” by Ashley Lee, she argues that the hind is representative of Marie de France herself. The hind is described as “a hind with a fawn; / a completely white beast, / with deer antlers on her head” (Guigemar 90-92). Although the hind is identified as female, and has offspring, it still has the male attribute of antlers. Lee argues that:
When we consider how white animals…frequently figure in medieval portraits of women as adjunct symbols of female virtue, purity, nobility, and innocence, it is not so difficult to see how the white hind can here as an extension of (or substitute for) the female body.