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Article: Lancelot
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- Myths and Legends of the World
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Lancelot
In the
medieval
legends about King Arthur of Britain and his knights, Lancelot is the greatest knight of all. In time, however, Lancelot's love for Guinevere, the king's wife, leads him to betray his king and sets in motion the fatal events that end Arthur's rule.
Lancelot is generally considered to be a French contribution to the Arthurian legends*. He first appears in the romances of the French writer Chr
é
tien de Troyes in the 1100s. However, some students of mythology see Lancelot as a later version of Celtic*f heroes or even of older images of gods associated with lightning and fertility.
medieval
relating to the Middle Ages in Europe, a period from about a.d. 500 ...