The Lancelot-Grail Cycle (a modern title invented by Ferdinand Lot), also known as the Vulgate Cycle (from the Latin editio vulgata, "common version",...
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Lac (Lancelot of the Lake), which was later picked up by the French authors of the Lancelot-Grail and then by Thomas Malory. Chrétien treats Lancelot as...
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Perceval, achieves the Grail. The Prose Lancelot section of the vast Lancelot-Grail cycle introduced the new Grail hero, Galahad. The Queste del Saint Graal...
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appears later in the Lancelot-Grail cycle, though his kinship to Yvain is not as clear as in Chrétien. He dies during the Grail Quest while trying to...
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Galahad (section Grail Quest)
one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. He is the illegitimate son of Sir Lancelot du Lac and Lady Elaine of Corbenic and is...
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Corbenic (redirect from Grail castle)
that name in the Lancelot-Grail cycle where it is also the birthplace of Galahad. In Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail (c. 1190), one...
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Elaine of Corbenic (redirect from Grail Maiden)
names). Her first significant action is showing the Holy Grail to the near-perfect knight, Sir Lancelot. In the version as told by Thomas Malory in Le Morte...
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film satirizing the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group...
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is based on Arthurian legend and medieval romances, especially the Lancelot-Grail cycle, and the works of Chrétien de Troyes. In common with Bresson's...
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antagonist, particularly as portrayed in cyclical prose such as the Lancelot-Grail and the Post-Vulgate Cycle. A significant aspect in many of Morgan's...
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Brangepart. Several of his adventures are narrated in the Vulgate Cycle (Lancelot-Grail). In the Vulgate Merlin, Gareth and his brothers defect from their father...
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sovereign prince in Arthurian legend. He is most prominent within the Lancelot-Grail prose cycle where he is a noble enemy turned an ally of King Arthur...
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ISBN 9780766061859. Lacy, Norris J. (19 January 2010). Lancelot-Grail: The post-Vulgate Quest for the Holy Grail & the post-Vulgate Death of Arthur. Boydell &...
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negative prior to his characterisation in the prose cycles. In the Lancelot-Grail (also known as the Vulgate Cycle) prose works, Agravain is generally...
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legend, an elder and a younger. The two first appear in the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail romance prose cycle. Bors the Elder is the King of Gaunnes (Gannes/Gaunes/Ganis)...
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Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, helping Lancelot rescue Guinevere from the abduction by King Valerin. The vast Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate Cycle) prose cycle of the...
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Calogrenant's death as told in the Queste del Saint Graal section of the Lancelot-Grail cycle. The tale ends with the Fisher King's death and Perceval's ascension...
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originally appeared in nascent form in the poem Lancelot prior to its vast expansion in the prose cycle Lancelot-Grail, consequently forming much of the narrative...
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Holy Chalice (category Holy Grail)
association was continued in many subsequent Arthurian works, including the Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate) cycle, the Post-Vulgate Cycle, and Sir Thomas Malory's Le...
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Post-Vulgate Cycle (category Holy Grail)
love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere in favor of the Quest for the Holy Grail. It omits almost all of the Vulgate Cycle's Lancelot Proper section, making...
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Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's...
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Val sans retour (section In the Lancelot-Grail)
Paimpont forest. The legend attached to it is primarily recounted in the Lancelot-Grail: in it, Morgan le Fay experiences a disappointment in love with the...
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Norris J. (2010). Lancelot-Grail: The story of Merlin. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84384-234-7. Lacy, Norris J. (2010). Lancelot-Grail: The death of...
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Excalibur is made explicit in the Prose Merlin, a part of the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail cycle of French romances also known as the Vulgate Cycle. Eventually...
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Sarras is a mystical island to which the Holy Grail is brought in the Arthurian legend. In the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, Joseph of Arimathea and his followers...
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Fisher King (redirect from Grail King)
founds the line of Grail keepers that eventually includes Perceval. The Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate) prose cycle includes a more elaborate history of the Fisher...
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Merlin (category Holy Grail)
Romance. DS Brewer. ISBN 978-1-84384-304-7. Lacy, Norris J. (2010). Lancelot-Grail: Lancelot, pt. I. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9781843842262. Koch, Celtic Culture...
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Round Table (redirect from Sir lancelot and the knights around the table)
initiates the Grail quest. The prose cycles of the 13th century, the Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate) Cycle and the Post-Vulgate Cycle, further adapt the chivalric...
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Lady of the Lake (section Lancelot's guardian)
no offspring of her own in neither Chrétien's Lancelot nor any of the later texts. In the Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate) prose cycle, the Lady resides in an...
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illegitimate and therefore, as in this version, Arthur's stepsister). In the Lancelot-Grail cycle's Vulgate Merlin, Igraine is provided with two earlier husbands...
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