• Lanval is one of the Lais of Marie de France. Written in Anglo-Norman, it tells the story of Lanval, a knight at King Arthur's court, who is overlooked...
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    (a retelling of an earlier Middle English lai, 'Landavale', itself a translation of Marie de France's 'Lanval') "lay, n.4." The Oxford English Dictionary...
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  • preserve for posterity the tales that she has heard. Two of Marie's lais, "Lanval," a very popular work that was adapted several times over the years...
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  • Sir Launfal (category Lais (poetic form))
    English poem Sir Landevale, which in turn was based on Marie de France's lai Lanval, written in a form of French understood in the courts of both England...
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    Graelent (category Anonymous lais)
    Breton lai, named after its protagonist. It is one of the so-called anonymous lais . The plot is similar to that of Marie de France's lai of Lanval. Graelent...
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    emotion. Lanval features a fairy woman who pursues the titular character and eventually brings her new lover to Avalon with her at the end of the lai. The...
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  • Guingamor (category Anonymous lais)
    in a lai. The story was once presumed to have been written by Marie de France, but is now considered anonymous. However, it draws on Marie's Lanval, and...
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  • Author of “Cherchez La Femme: Feminist Criticism and Marie De France’s ‘Lai De Lanval.’” Romance Notes, vol. 34, no. 3, 1994, p. 263. "Senate Faculty". humanities...
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  • c. 1170s Folie Tristan d'Oxford, c. 1175 – c. 1200 The Lais of Marie de France c. 1170s Lanval Chevrefoil (an episode of the Tristan and Iseult story)...
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    Bisclavret (category Lais of Marie de France)
    (1910). Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret: Four lais rendered into English prose at Project Gutenberg Rychner, Jean. Les Lais du Marie de France...
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  • based ultimately upon one of the 12th-century Breton lais recorded by Marie de France, the lay Lanval, via a Middle English romance Sir Landevale, an Old...
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  • Knights: A Survey of Arthurian Romance (1899) Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret: Four Lais Rendered into English Prose (c. 1900) translator, text by...
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    Sixpence". The word entremets as a culinary term first appears in the lai, Lanval (1155 × 1170), by Marie de France, line 185, and subsequently in La Vengeance...
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  • the Rhymer", and appears to have been influenced by Marie de France's lai Lanval, either directly from the French or via the Norwegian translation, Januals...
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    d'Arthur Marie de France 12th Anglo-Norman Lais of Marie de France: Lai de Yonec, Lai de Frêne, Lai de Lanval (...) Nennius 9th Latin Historia Brittonum...
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  • version of an Authurian "fairy mistress" tale from Marie de France's Lai de Lanval, written in the second half of the 12th century Geoffrey Chaucer, The...
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    homosexuality, such as in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron or Lanval, a French lai, in which the knight Lanval is accused by Guinevere of having "no desire for women"...
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  • Otherworld (Avalon). All of these texts are related to Marie de France's Lanval, where the human queen character is Guinevere. His name may have been derived...
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    authority and glory remain intact." Arthur and his retinue appear in some of the Lais of Marie de France, but it was the work of another French poet, Chrétien...
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    commonly the "thigh" (such as the wounding of the ineffective suitor in Lanval from the Lais of Marie de France) is a euphemism for the physical loss of or grave...
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  • Fresne (lai)) Equitan (Equitan) Geitarlauf (Chevrefoil) Grelent (Graelent) Guiamars ljóð (Guigemar) Guruns ljóð (source unknown) Januals ljóð (Lanval) Jonet...
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    Reliques. The chastity test involving the drinking horn was narrated in the Lai du Cor (1160) by the jongleur Robert Biket, who claimed Cirencester was awarded...
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  • surviving mention of Arthur. E.g. in the opening lines of Marie de France's lai Lanval. An Astérix-Kaamelott connection almost goes without saying. Near the...
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    – via JSTOR. Schofield, William Henry (1900). "The Lays of Graelent and Lanval, and the Story of Wayland". PMLA. 15 (2): 126–128. Price, Thomas (1842)...
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  • the wedding night, Conrad's happiness is greater than that of Tristan or Lanval; the next morning, "no one who asked [Conrad] for a costly gift was refused...
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  • commonly the "thigh" (such as the wounding of the ineffective suitor in Lanval from the Lais of Marie de France) is a euphemism for the physical loss of or grave...
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    Fresne (lai)) Equitan (Equitan) Geitarlauf (Chevrefoil) Grelent (Graelent) Guiamars ljóð (Guigemar) Guruns ljóð (source unknown) Januals ljóð (Lanval) Jonet...
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    passages in her Lais show its influence, only the raids by the Picts and Scots in Lanval being quite unambiguous. Two of the Breton lais written in imitation...
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  • Bateman School of Dancing, Hong Kong. For services to dance in Hong Kong Dr Lanval Joseph Daly – Director, Montserrat Visiting Consultants Programme. For services...
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  • Arthurian legends and magic. An exhibition and a book dedicated to the Lai of Lanval were created through collaboration with artists from Devon in England...
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