Sir Lancelot of the Lake: A French Prose Romance of the Thirteenth Century [Hardcover]

This translation of Lancelot del Lac was published in 1929 to present easily the essential parts of the history of Sir Lancelot from three thirteenth century romances  Le livre de Lancelot del Lac, Le queste del saint graal, and La mort le roi Artus. The translator summarises the sections not fully translated to link the sections together. This was the first serious attempt to produce a modern English rendering of the French material, as Malory used a relatively small portion of the French trilogy in writing Morte Darthur.

Introduction  1. Sir Lancelot in Legend and in Literature  2. Lanzelet  3. Le Conte de la Charrette (The Story of ther Cart)  4. The Prose Trilogy  Part 1: The Book of Lancelot of the Lake  Part 2: The Quest of the Holy Grail  Part 3: The Death of King Arthur

This translation of Lancelot del Lac was published in 1929 to present easily the essential parts of the history of Sir Lancelot from three thirteenth century romances; the first serious attempt to produce a modern English rendering of the French material.