Matter of Britain Figure
Lancelot du Lac
- Summary
- Absent from all Welsh material and from Geoffrey. He enters with Chretien's Chevalier de la Charrette (c. 1177), is expanded into the vast prose Lancelot of the Vulgate, and by Malory is the axis of the whole tragedy. A French addition that becomes indispensable to the English story.
- Kind
- legendary
Worldviews
Chretien's Courtly Romance, The Grail Made Christian, Malory's Fellowship and Its Fall
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH