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It seems there was a lot of borrowing from other sources during Chaucer's time. The name Arcite was used twice by Chaucer, in the poem Anelida and Arcite, and "The Knight's Tale" in Canterbury Tales. I'm not sure of the poem but "The Knight's Tale" was inspired from Boccaccio's Teseida (an epic poem) in which one of the characters is named Arcita; the main setting is Athens, Greece, so I'm assuming the name may have a Greek origin or source. The closest I could find was that it may have been borrowed from another epic poem, a Byzantine poem named Digenes Akritas, Akritas referring to someone who lived on the borders of a country though in Byzantine it also refers to soldiers who defended their borders against enemies.

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Anelida is trickier. I've seen it listed as originating from the Arthurian romances, from an obscure Italian poem titled "L'intelligenza". I couldn't find much behind it but it seems to be an Italian variant of Laudine.

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I posted some links to the sites I've been to if that'll help.

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/456817.pdf

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http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/garland/deweever/contents.htm

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https://books.google.com/books?id=9YxSAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=names+from+anelida+and+arcite&source=bl&ots=UFYuSaEFP0&sig=ACfU3U2PjE0gJUkQBrYl2J_XnN_rZU0E0g&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwifqqyP85XoAhUnkHIEHb02BOMQ6AEwB3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=names%20from%20anelida%20and%20arcite&f=false

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https://books.google.com/books?id=uEnSAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA462&lpg=PA462&dq=names+from+anelida+and+arcite&source=bl&ots=jRfdaK4dCn&sig=ACfU3U3heHwyxL6jmZClbHsixPhmUHd7Ig&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwifqqyP85XoAhUnkHIEHb02BOMQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=names%20from%20anelida%20and%20arcite&f=false

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https://books.google.com/books?id=5GeuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT35&lpg=PT35&dq=Analida+in+arthurian+romances&source=bl&ots=oKWG2zTrKh&sig=ACfU3U3G0gEy0PVB1tkagUj422_mRcEJkw&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0l9PC-ZXoAhXPl3IEHaAPAucQ6AEwAXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Analida%20in%20arthurian%20romances&f=false

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https://www.nightbringer.se/a_laudine.html

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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ακρίτης#Greek

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