Liveblogging the Lancelot-Grail Cycle

• The Fall Of Camelot •

WIP Lancelot/Vulgate Cycle Concepts

A peek at some Arthurian concepts I've been drawing since the weekend. Mostly focused on the love between Galehaut, Lancelot and Guinevere in the Vulgate Cycle.📖

Top row: An infant Galehaut held by his mother the Fair Giantess, Galehaut, Lancelot, and Lady of the Lake with infant Lancelot.

Middle row: Draft of Galehaut, Lancelot and Queen Guinevere embracing under a night sky.

Bottom row: Guinevere, Lancelot & Galehaut, Lady of the Lake, and King Arthur.

(Source: Vulgate Cycle - Death of Arthur)

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Perceval 4th Continuation / via Arthurian Preservation Project

Mordred and Percival's duel in the Perceval Continuations. It seems like they were evenly matched! But in the end, Percival won and Mordred begs him for mercy, to which Percival then sends him off to Arthur's court as his prisoner.

bonus:

“Then Sir Gawain thought a little, like a man who believed he would never be well again. “If God were to grant me my health,” he said, “I’d immediately wish to be the most beautiful maiden in the world, happy and healthy, on condition that he would love me above all others, all his life and mine.”

Thanks @gringolet for putting this part in my head for years. Your works have haunted me, in the best way possible.