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Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), alternatively written as Launcelot and other variants, [a] is a popular character in Arthurian legend's chivalric romance tradition. He is typically depicted as King Arthur 's close companion and one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table , as well as a secret lover of Arthur's wife ...
Lancelot encounters a cart-driving dwarf, who says he will tell Lancelot where Guinevere and her captor went if Lancelot agrees to ride in his cart. Lancelot boards the cart reluctantly as this is a dishonorable form of transport for a knight. [1] Gawain, unwilling to demean himself in this manner, chooses to follow on horseback.
Lancelot and Guinevere (known as Sword of Lancelot in the U.S.) is a British 1963 film starring Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace (his real-life wife at the time), and Brian Aherne. This lesser-known version of the Camelot legend is a work shaped predominantly by Cornel Wilde, who co-produced, directed, co-wrote, and played Lancelot .
The Lancelot-Grail is a modern title invented by Ferdinand Lot. [1] The Vulgate Cycle (also known as the Vulgate Version of Arthurian Romances), from the Latin editio vulgata, [2] "common version", is another modern title that was popularised (albeit not invented [3]) by H. Oskar Sommer.
Lancelot-Grail, a volume of medieval French works that are a major source of Arthurian legend; Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, a 12th-century poem by Chretien de Troyes; Lancelot, a 1978 novel by Walker Percy; Lancelot du Lac, a 1974 film directed by Robert Bresson "Lancelot" , an episode of the 2008 BBC TV series
Eventually, Lancelot abandons his castle and goes to an exile in today's France. After his death, Lancelot's body is taken to the Joyous Gard for burial. [ 2 ] In the French prose cycles, he is laid to rest next to the grave of his dear friend Galehaut (in the Post-Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal , their remnants are later dug up and destroyed ...
Galehaut, a half-blood giant lord of the Distant Isles (le sire des Isles Lointaines), [1] appears for the first time in the Matter of Britain in the "Book of Galehaut" section of the early 13th-century Prose Lancelot Proper, the central work in the series of anonymous Old French prose romances collectively known as Lancelot-Grail (the Vulgate Cycle).
Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles; or, The Book of Galehaut Retold, by Patricia Terry and Samuel N. Rosenberg, is a modern retelling of a narrative thread that runs through the Prose Lancelot, a major source of Arthurian Legend. The Prose Lancelot follows the arc of Lancelot's life, his adventures and the well-known affair with Guenevere.