• Perceforest or Le Roman de Perceforest is an anonymous prose chivalric romance, written in French probably around 1340 with lyrical interludes of poetry...
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    earliest known version of the tale is found in the French narrative Perceforest, written between 1330 and 1344. Another was the Catalan poem Frayre de...
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    Lake, or the "chief Lady of the Lake" in the case of Malory's Nimue. In Perceforest, the ancestry of both Merlin and the Lady of the Lake is descended from...
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    and curses Lisa to "die" via a comb in her hair. The French romance Perceforest, which dates to at least 1528 and probably earlier, features a segment...
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    Arthour and of Merlin 13th Middle English Palamedes 13th Old French Perceforest 14th Middle French Perceval Continuations 13th Old French Perlesvaus...
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  • known MS) 'Michael' – Kildare Poems (MS of about this date) c. 1330–40 Perceforest 1330–43 Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita – The Book of Good Love (El Libro...
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    the otherwise obscure Elaine. In the 14th-century French prose romance Perceforest, a lengthy romance prequel to the Arthurian legend, the figures of the...
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    death. His symbolic namesake, Lyonnel, appears in the quasi-prequel Perceforest. There, he is an ancestor of both Lancelot and Guinevere as well as Tristan...
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    forerunner of the Round Table appears in Perceforest, where Arthur's distant ancestor, the eponymous King Perceforest, establishes the elite Order of the Franc...
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    ancient-times appearance of a Morgan character can be found in the much later Perceforest (1330s), within the fourth book which is set in Britain during Julius...
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