Guinevere arthurian legend

According to Arthurian History The idea that Guinevere and Sir Lancelot committed adultery with one another is found only in the legends of Arthur and the knights. Geoffrey of Monmouth refers to Queen Guinevere as Ganhumara, and the Triads imply that King Arthur had three queens, all of them named Gwenhwyfar, the Welsh version of Guinevere. According...

According to Hopkins, “[Arthur’s] queen, Guinevere, is more elusive, less written about [than Arthur and his knights], and yet has been for centuries a central character playing a critical role in the rise and fall of the Round Table” (6). He goes on by characterizing her as “a key figure in the life of Camelot, this remarkable woman is seen variably as scholar, seductress, warrior, and dignified gentle beauty by the countless artists and writers who have depicted her. Who, then, was…

Son of a sea cook, the heat is on for me to join the choir at church. It is not as if they have no women in the choir but most of the women they have are teenagers or kids in their early 20s. They need a more, ahem, mature voice. Two jokes here. No. 1, who would have guessed that the choir for the Latin Mass would be overrun by kids in their 20s? I am telling you, the Latin Mass is where it is at! No. 2, big laugh thinking of me as having a mature voice. I sound like a 10-year-old…

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Guinevere /ˈɡwɪnᵻvɪər/, often written as Guenevere or Gwenevere (Welsh Gwenhwyfar), was the wife of King Arthur in the Arthurian Legend. In medieval romances, one of the most prominent story arcs is Queen Guinevere's love affair with her husband's chief knight Sir Lancelot. This story first appeared in Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart and became a motif in Arthurian literature, starting with the Lancelot-Grail Cycle of the early 13th century and carrying through the…

Contemporary Interpretations of the Legends of Good King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Table Round