King Arthur packet

Sir Kay is compared to an ______ _____ for both Lancelot and Arthur

An old wound

Lancelot tells Guinevere that he couldn't do what with Elaine?

Be her paramour (lover) or marry her

What does Guinevere do after Arthur's death?

Becomes a nun and refuses to see Lancelot ever again.

Lancelot rescues Guinevere from

Being burned at the stake

Lancelot has to do what to get to Guinevere in the tower?

Bend some bars

Lancelot has to do what to get to Guinevere out of the tower?

Bend some bars

Elaine dies of a

Broken heart

Lancelot has the agility of

Deer

Lancelot has the strength of

Elephants

Sir Gawain does not want to

Fight against Lancelot and his men

Sir Gawain knows that his brothers will

Fight if Arthur asks them because they are young

In what country does Lancelot go?

France

After Lancelot rescues Guinevere, he?

Gives her back to Arthur

After Elaine's death, what do the people do?

Go hawking and jousting

Who is in the room where Arthur and Lancelot go?

Guinevere

Lancelot visits _______ in a tower because?

Guinevere who is locked in a tower by Arthur's enemy

In another version, Lancelot and Elaine

Have a baby named Galahad.

In another version, Lancelot and Elaine

Have a baby names Galahad.

Lancelot was not angry for losing fingers because he would rather his arms be pulled from his body than

Having not been with Guinevere

What injury happens to Lancelot?

He cuts off his pinky and half of his ring finger

Lancelot cries after

He kisses Guinevere because he feels so guilty for what he is doing to Arthur.

Who tells Arthur that Lancelot is having an affair with Guinevere?

His son Modred

What does Modred say to the Archbishop?

If he stops him from taking over the kingdom and marrying Guinevere, he will have him beheaded.

When Lancelot talks to Arthur and Guinevere about his missions, Guinevere gets

Jealous because she assumes he slept with may women.

What does Lancelot do after Arthur's death?

Join a hermitage and becomes a monk

What does Lancelot do after Arthur's death?

Joins a hermitage and becomes a monk

_______ sees the body of Elaine floating

Kay

What breaks up the Round Table?

Lancelot's and Modred's betrayal

Lancelot has the ferocity of

Lions

Maybe Lancelot and Guinevere are in love but it really seems like that just have __________ for each other.

Lust

Arthur thinks it's funny that Merlin warned him not to

Marry Guinevere because he doesn't know she is cheating on him with Lancelot.

Arthur thinks it's interesting that Merlin warned him not to

Marry Guinevere because he doesn't know she is cheating on him with Lancelot.

A "cold knife of loneliness pressed against his heart" for Lancelot when Arthur talks about

Merlin warning him about Guinevere

Who gets excommunicated from the church?

Modred

Who causes the death of Arthur?

Modred (his son) and Lancelot

The servants in Arthur's court move like

Oxen because they are used to carrying heavy loads and scuttle like crabs because they are crooked and nervous when they don't have the weight of carrying things for royalty.

What does Elaine ask Lancelot to do after her death?

Pay for her funeral

Arthur created a __________ to illustrate everyone being______

Round table, equal

Elaine falls in love with Lancelot when

She takes care of him after he is injured in a jousting match.

Elaine falls in love with Lancelot when

She takes care of him during a jousting match.

What is Guinevere's punishment for her betrayal of Arthur?

She will be burned at the stake.

Lancelot's beauty is compared to

Stars

The ladies in Arthur's court hold their necks high like

Swans

Elaine's body floats down the

Thames River in London

The French author Chretien de Troyes adds these elements to the Arthurian myth

The love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere and the quest for the Holy Grail.

What is the faithful knight Bedivere supposed to do for Arthur after his death?

Throw his sword into the lake where the Lady of the Lake will take it.

What is the faithful night Bedivere supposed to do for Arthur after his death?

Throw his sword into the lake where the Lady of the Lake will take it.

The men at the Round Table make Lancelot feel

Uncomfortable. They inflate his achievements too much.

During Whitsun, men have to recite

Virtues of knights/chivalry

The ladies in Arthur's court move like

Water (they are taught to not make a sound when they walk)

What treacherous thing does Modred do?

When Arthur is in France, he tells people that Arthur died and becomes king. He also tries to force Guinevere to marry him.

Guinevere asks Lancelot about Elaine...

Why couldn't you show her some gentleness?

Elaine has this in her hand when floating down the river

a letter saying how much she loved Lancelot

What is courtly love?

a sentimental reflection of the feudal relationship between a knight and his lord. The knight serves the chosen lady with the same obedience and loyalty he owes this lord. The knight's love for the lady inspires him to seek adventures and achieve great deeds.

When Guinevere touch Lancelot's arm, he

feels like a searing shock is running through his body

When Guinevere touches Lancelot's arm, he

feels like a searing shock is running through his body

Lancelot does not realize that he has lost

his pinky and half his ring finger

When Lancelot leaves Guinevere in the tower his "body

left but his heart stayed"

Where did people think Arthur went?

to Avalon, an island paradise of Celtic legend, where heroes ate taken after death