Galehaut of Surluse
Galehaut of Surluse (or Galehault of Surluse)and the Long Isles, a highly significant character in the story of the love of Launcelot and Guinevere as described in the early 13th-cent. French prose ‘Vulgate’ cycle. He was a close friend of Launcelot who demanded tribute from Arthur; he first introduced the lovers but later became jealous of the queen's influence over Launcelot. He is most famous as the Galeotto in Dante 's reference to this story in the episode of Paolo and Francesca (Inferno, v. 137). Malory wrongly calls him ‘the Haute Prince’ through a confusion with the similar name Galahad . See J. Frappier , ‘The Vulgate Cycle’ in R. S. Loomis (ed.), Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages ( 1959 ), 299.
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