Chronicle and Romance

At the feast of Pentecost, a damsel rides into King Arthur’s hall on a horse drenched with sweat—and asks Sir Launcelot to follow her into the forest. She will not tell him why.

This collection gathers medieval England and France in three voices: Froissart’s chronicles, Malory’s tales of Arthur and his knights, and Holinshed’s history. In Malory’s Camelot, Launcelot is led to an abbey, where twelve weeping nuns present the fair young Galahad and ask him to make the boy a knight. Soon a sword appears fixed in a stone floating on the river, with a warning that only one knight can claim it. The fellowship of the Round Table is about to face adventures that test its boasts of courage and honor—but who can draw the sword?

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