Guenevere is darning socks for Arthur. Vivien is visiting and informs her that she intends to marry Lancelot. Lancelot comes in later and talks to Guenevere about Vivien and also his desires for ...
The tale of Sir Lancelot, full of knightly adventures and marked by the illicit love affair with Queen Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur, was immensely popular in mediaeval Europe. It was described ...
turned out to be less interested in the British king than the knights that surrounded him—including Lancelot—and Christian quests like that of the Holy Grail. “Le Morte d’Arthur,” the ...
King Arthur finds love with Guinevere, but is oblivious to her romance with Lancelot of the Lake. Meanwhile, Arthur’s half-sister Morgana longs for revenge against him and sets up a conspiracy ...
and Lancelot, Gawain and Galahad, came later, expanded upon by folklore and successive writers. However, the story of Arthur's sword, Excalibur, may have had its roots in Welsh literature.