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Reproduction of the original: The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac by Jessie L. Weston
Sir Lancelot, brave knight of legendary Camelot, strives for perfection but faces many obstacles in this tale.
The early 13th century French romance tells of Lancelot's childhood, his arrival at King Arthur's court, and the flowering of his legendary love affair with Queen Guinevere.
Bridgette and Duncan return to a familiar place to pick up Lancelot’s trail, while Rose comes face to face with another member of the McGuire family she was not expecting to see...
Wrongly accused of poisoning a member of the queen's personal guard, sword-for-hire Eddie LaCrosse struggles to find the real killer in order to prevent his own execution, a case that exposes a sinister plot against the throne.
This translation of Lancelot del Lac was published in 1929 to present easily the essential parts of the history of Sir Lancelot from three thirteenth century romances - "Le livre de Lancelot del Lac," "Le queste del saint graal," and "La mort le roi Artus. "The translator summarises the sections not fully translated to link the sections together. This was the first serious attempt to produce a modern English rendering of the French material, as Malory used a relatively small portion of the French trilogy in writing "Morte Darthur."
The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays in this volume, all by internationally known scholars, locate the work in its social,...
Qui est Lancelot ? Élevé par la mystérieuse Dame du Lac, ancienne compagne de Merlin, il débarque un jour à la cour d’Arthur, le célèbre Roi de la Table Ronde, et tombe aussitôt amoureux fou de la reine Guenièvre. Commence alors pour lui la vie d’aventures qui est le lot de tous les chevaliers et qui va le mener au sommet de la gloire, et le faire sacrer « le meilleur chevalier du monde ». Pourtant son origine reste longtemps mystérieuse, il côtoie le monde d’Arthur et la Compagnie de la Table Ronde sans jamais s’y intégrer vraiment, son amour coupable pour Guenièvre l’empêche d’accéder au Graal. Et s’il n’était que l’instrument du destin ? Son existence m...
"The story of the passionate, adulterous, tragic love of Lancelot and Guenevere is at once the perfect expression of "courtly love" and its inversion. Lancelot, the superhuman stranger in King Arthur's court, sacrifices everything in service of his king, and yet also falls secretly in love with Arthur's queen, the most beautiful woman in all of Britain. That this spotless knight, who repeatedly saves Arthur and his world from destruction, should also be the fateful underminer of the king's self-confidence and, ultimately, a terrible weapon in the hands of Arthur's great adversary Galehaut, is a contradiction that has fascinated the Western mind for hundreds of years." "The Arthurian legend t...
Lancelot and Arthur return home to find Guinevere shattered and a Camelot they barely recognize. A traitor's challenge for the throne forces Arthur back on the road and racing once more to Avalon. However, they soon learn they are facing a threat more terrible than anything the traitor can conjure alone.