Lancelot

or Laun·ce·lot

[ lan-suh-luht, -lot, lahn- ]

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noun

Arthurian Legend. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.

Lancelot

/ ˈlɑːnslət /

(in Arthurian legend) one of the Knights of the Round Table; the lover of Queen Guinevere

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Lancelot has an impulsive, glad optimism out of tune with the times.

Even the title brings to mind this vital issue: how does Lancelot figure out where to sit at the round table?

And of course I loved the Lancelot story because it is all about longing and unrequited love.

So, who wants to tell the King that Sir Lancelot is schtupping the Queen?

The parallel to which Mr. Ward refers is that contained in the earlier part of the Prose Lancelot.

In the result, I think we shall find that it formed one of the first steps in the development of the Lancelot story.

Finally, when a child, he was carried off by a water maiden, meer-wîb (incident 7) (Lanzelet—Prose Lancelot).

Out of these seven incidents, six are found, and found more than once, in the earlier forms of the Lancelot story.

There is a possible ‘clerical’ explanation of the existence of two versions of the Lancelot tale.

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