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themes of the romance in Middle Ages?

knights of the Round Table is the most powerful

and enduring in the western world. King Arthur, Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot did not really exist, but their names conjure up a romantic image of gallant knights in shining armour, elegant ladies in medieval castles, heroic quest for the Holy Grail in a world of honour and romance, and the court of Camelot at the centre of a royal and mystical Britain.

(Eigr ) (wife of Duke Gorlois of Cornwall).
When

Uther fell in love with Gorlois' wife, Igraine, Merlin helped the king, by transforming Uther to resemble Gorlois. When Gorlois died, Uther married Igraine, but she was already pregnant.
Arthur had a sister named Gwyar, who was the mother of Gwalchmai or Gwalchmei, and of Gwalhaved. Gwalchmai was better known in English and French legend as Gawain or Gauvain.

becoming home to Earl of Cornwall
The legend says

this is the birthplace of Arthur

Tintagel

misty, supernatural figure endowed with magic powers, who gave

the sword Excalibur to King Arthur. She inhabited a castle in an underwater kingdom. According to one legend she kidnapped the infant Launcelot and brought him to her castle where he lived until manhood. She has been identified variously with Morgan le Fay and Vivien. The poem The Lady of the Lake, by Sir Walter Scott, is based on a totally different legend.

at the court of King Vortigern and later at

the court of King Arthur. He was a bard and culture hero in early Celtic folklore. In Arthurian legend he is famous as a magician and as the counselor of King Arthur.

most celebrated knight at the court of King Arthur.

He was kidnapped as an infant by the mysterious Lady of the Lake, from whom he received his education and took his title, Launcelot of the Lake. As a young man he went to the court of King Arthur, where he was knighted and became one of the most feared warriors. Lancelot was the lover of Guinevere, his sovereign’s queen.

of King Arthur. Her tragic love for Sir Launcelot,

which foreshadowed the downfall of Arthur’s kingdom, ends with her retirement to a convert. Sha also figures in several early romances and Celtic legends, her name appearing in various forms (Guanhamara, Gvenour…). In different versions of the Arthurian story her name appears as Guenevere and Guinever.

given to Arthur as a wedding gift by his

father-in-law. A round table of undetermined antiquity hangs now in the castle at Winchester. Tradicionally King Arthur’s, it may be a relic of one of the medieval jousts also called round tables.

appears in Robert de There is no ‘head of

the table’ at a round table, and so no one person is at a privileged position. Thus the knights were all peers and there was no ‘leader’ as there were at so many other medieval tables.
Round Tables were an aristocratic activity throughout Europe from the 13th century in to the 15th century.

dish, plate, cup or vessel that caught Jesus' blood

during his crucifixion (распятие на кресте). It was said to have the power to heal all wounds. In this case, the Grail is not an expensive, golden goblet, but a simple dish, made of wood.

the San Grail is a kind of stone, maybe

the Philosopher’s Stone, or a piece of the Decalogue .

People who drink out of the Grail, will be immortal.

Scientists say, the word San Grail comes from the Sang Raal. It means Holy Blood. It refers to Jesus and his descendants.

At the Court of King Arthur, however, it was prophesied (предсказано) that the Grail would one day be rediscovered by a descendant of St. Joseph: the best knight in the land.

court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Later romance

depicts it as the fantastic capital of Arthur’s realm, from which he fought many of the battles and quests that made up his life. Camelot as a place is associated with ideals like justice, bravery and truth, all the virtues Arthur and his knights embodiment in the romances. As it is absent from the early material, and its location, if it even existed, is unknown. Thus most modern academic scholars regard it as being entirely fictional.

to be a noble king and a mighty warrior.

He was the possessor of the miraculous sword Excalibur, given to him by the mysterious Lady of the Lake.
At Arthur’s death Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the lake, a hand rose from the water, caught the sword, and disappeared.
Another sword, sometimes mistakenly identified with Excalibur, was drawn from a stone by Arthur to prove his royality.

his sister Morgan le Fay and his nephew Mordred.

Morgan le Fay was usually represented as an evil sorceress, scheming to win Arthur’s throne for herself and her lover. Mordred was variously Arthur’s nephew or his son by his sister Morgawse. He seized Arthur’s throne during the king’s absence. Later he was slain in battle by Arthur, but not before he had fatally wounded the king. Arthur was borne away to the isle of Avalon. Where it was expected that ho would be healed of his wounds and that he would someday return to his people.

blissful otherworld of the dead. In medieval romance it

was the island to which the mortally wounded King Arthur was taken, and from which it was expected he would someday return.

himself had ordered the exhumation
„the body at least sixteen

feet beneath the earth, not in a tomb of stone but in a hollow oak” the reason: it might never be discovered by the saxons”
Arthur’s tomb at Glastonbury (?)

His Grave