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The Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake
After his victory in Rome, Launcelot returns to England, an honored and heroic knight. This book relates Launcelot's adventures, which embody the ideal heroic knight and the code of the Round Table. In the first of the episodes related here, Launcelot is asleep under a tree when Morgan le Fay and three other ladies find him. She uses magic to return him to her castle, where the women demand that he must choose one of them or he will die. Launcelot is saved when he promises to help Sir Bagdemagus in a tournament. On his way to the tournament,...
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