The Lancelot-Grail Cycle (a modern title invented by Ferdinand Lot), also known as the Vulgate Cycle (from the Latin editio vulgata, "common version",...
41 KB (5,027 words) - 19:29, 16 October 2024
greatest of all quests, achieving the Holy Grail when Lancelot himself fails due to his sins. Eventually, when Lancelot's adulterous affair with Guinevere is...
65 KB (8,153 words) - 21:09, 22 October 2024
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...
46 KB (6,256 words) - 22:02, 22 October 2024
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...
126 KB (15,492 words) - 00:13, 23 September 2024
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...
7 KB (903 words) - 17:39, 22 July 2023
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...
29 KB (4,031 words) - 04:23, 25 September 2024
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...
9 KB (1,025 words) - 06:46, 6 September 2024
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...
13 KB (1,686 words) - 19:11, 8 March 2024
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film based on the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group (Graham...
56 KB (5,874 words) - 20:00, 14 October 2024
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...
22 KB (2,860 words) - 09:59, 24 October 2024
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...
13 KB (1,701 words) - 01:23, 1 September 2024
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...
11 KB (1,345 words) - 06:20, 25 September 2024
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...
119 KB (14,679 words) - 22:23, 16 October 2024
negative prior to his characterisation in the prose cycles. In the Lancelot-Grail (also known as the Vulgate Cycle) prose works, Agravain is generally...
19 KB (2,603 words) - 23:31, 17 April 2024
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 &...
40 KB (4,982 words) - 13:28, 12 August 2024
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)...
9 KB (1,257 words) - 02:37, 23 October 2024
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...
60 KB (7,130 words) - 17:50, 22 October 2024
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...
21 KB (2,632 words) - 18:46, 4 October 2024
Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, helping Lancelot rescue Guinevere from the abduction by King Valerin. The vast Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate Cycle) prose cycle of the...
17 KB (2,116 words) - 07:17, 6 March 2024
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...
19 KB (2,568 words) - 11:10, 27 September 2023
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...
2 KB (210 words) - 16:13, 9 July 2023
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...
27 KB (3,128 words) - 11:07, 14 October 2024
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...
28 KB (3,989 words) - 11:30, 25 October 2024
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...
7 KB (878 words) - 17:29, 4 August 2024
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...
12 KB (1,590 words) - 01:42, 1 September 2024
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...
33 KB (3,961 words) - 13:11, 7 October 2024
Merlin (category Holy Grail)
0029. JSTOR 27869521. S2CID 161777117. Lacy, Norris J. (2010). Lancelot-Grail: Lancelot, pt. I. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9781843842262. Guerin, M. Victoria...
89 KB (9,966 words) - 18:27, 28 October 2024
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...
18 KB (2,078 words) - 06:33, 25 October 2024
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...
83 KB (10,251 words) - 07:46, 23 October 2024
Gawain (category Holy Grail)
especially Lancelot, le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart) and Perceval ou le Conte du Graal (Perceval, the Story of the Grail), the...
67 KB (8,764 words) - 19:58, 23 October 2024