The next big jousting tournament in the rotation is the Candlemas tournament, around New Year’s. Everybody plans to attend, Launcelot included. Guenever, with whom he’s made up by now, calls him into her chambers one evening. “Listen,” she says. “I … Continue reading →
Bors and Launcelot and Lavaine and Elaine end up staying at Sir Baudwin’s for several months. At first they’re waiting around so that the knights can go directly from the hermitage to King Arthur’s next scheduled jousting tournament, a Halloween … Continue reading →
Gawaine completely bungled the search for Launcelot, but Elaine finds him easily! She has the advantage of a) knowing her brother, Sir Lavaine, and b) turning a corner and there Lavaine is, exercising his horse in a field! Elaine flags down … Continue reading →
Special spoooooky Friday the 13th update! (Not really.) All in all, Launcelot and Lavaine defeat about forty knights, including many Knights of the Round Table. Launcelot takes a licking, but comes out on top, and wins the prize for the … Continue reading →
Next morning Arthur and his assembled knights ride forth, and towards the back of the group Sir Launcelot and Sir Lavaine, disguised as Sir Tirre and Sir Lavaine, ride out too. Malory seems to have lost track of the fact … Continue reading →
Spring turns into summer and summer into late summer, says Malory. And one day roundabout the end of August, Arthur decides to hold a big jousting tournament, because there hasn’t been one since Book XIII. He calls in the King … Continue reading →
You can tell where this is going. Arthur checks with this mystery knight, and may or may not recognize him as Launcelot. Either way, he gives the knight the go-ahead. “You guys are all jerks!” shouts Launcelot at the assembled … Continue reading →
Sir Bors goes back to Camelot and calls a meeting of the Knights of the Round Table. “Fellows,” he says to the assembly. “I know that you think that whoever defends Guenever is necessarily a villain in cahoots with her, … Continue reading →
Next scene, Guenever and Sir Bors. She summons him to her chamber. When he arrives, she opens her mouth to speak but Bors cuts her off. “Madam, what would ye that I did? I was there, at the dinner, and … Continue reading →
Shortly after exiling Launcelot in a fit of pique, Guenever organizes a small banquet, for herself and a couple of dozen knights. They divide up easily into factions! THE ORKNEY FACTION Sir Gawaine His brother Sir Agravaine Their brother Sir … Continue reading →
