![]() ![]() ![]() The outraged king forces Lanval to submit to a trial: if he is able to summon a lady who turns out to be more beautiful than the queen, he will be exonerated otherwise, he will be banished from the court. When he rebuffs her advances, she accuses him of homosexuality, telling King Arthur that in fact she had been the one to refuse Lanval and that, moreover, Lanval had boasted of having a lover more beautiful than Guinevere herself. Lanval being tried in court.īack in Arthur’s court, Lanval gains a new reputation for generosity, and Queen Guinevere offers him her love. Lanval follows these messengers to a magnificent pavilion, where he meets a woman who offers him her love along with an inexhaustible capacity to bestow gifts: he can enjoy both of these, she tells him, as long as he keeps their love a secret. Pensive and melancholy, Lanval rides to a nearby stream, where he catches sight of two beautiful young women, who claim to have been sent by their mistress to fetch him. The lai begins with the knight Lanval’s departure from King Arthur’s court on account of having been forgotten in a round of gift-giving. It appears in her collection after “ Bisclavret” and before “ Les Deus Amanz.” ![]() “ Lanval,” the fifth of Marie de France’s lais, is perhaps the one most directly influenced by ideas of the Celtic otherworld, and the only lai to allude to the figures of Arthurian romance. Medieval Romance: Magic and the Supernatural (YHU2309) Text (Part of The Lais of Marie de France) ![]()
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