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Chapter 20 Gawaine tells the messenger that he hasn’t forgotten his promise to kill or be killed by Launcelot. Launcelot, hearing the answer, weeps. In the morning, Arthur ’s knights besiege the city of Benwick. A battle begins, and the siege lasts for half a year, with much slaughter.
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Journeys and Quests. Women: Weakness and Power. Summary....
- Book 21
Against Sir Lucan's advice, Arthur fights Mordred and kills him, but he gets his own death wound as he does it. Lucan and Bedivere bear him to a chapel. Robbers overrun the battlefield stealing the gear of dead knights, killing any that have life left in them. Arthur is dying and cannot be moved to safety.
Summary. Book 8 opens with what seems to be a repeat of Book 7 's paean to the month of May, when summer comes "with his fresh flowers." Malory quickly makes it clear that this May won't be anything like that. This May will be angry and unhappy, and the horrors won't stop "till the flower of chivalry of the world [is] destroyed and slain."
Journeys and Quests. Women: Weakness and Power. Summary. Analysis. Chapter 1 Meanwhile Mordred has been given responsibility for Guenever. He writes fake letters from across the sea that say Arthur has been killed in battle. Mordred makes a feast and has the lords choose him king. He takes Guenever as his wife: she privately mourns, but ...
Book 21 Chapters 1-3. In his father’s absence, Mordred has made himself King of England. Arthur returns to England and fights his son. Gawaine dies, and is buried in a chapel at Dover. Gawaine’s ghost tells Arthur to call off his war with Mordred, saying that if Arthur were to face Mordred in battle, Arthur would die.
Guided by visions, he goes to Almesbury, where he finds Guinevere dead. He buries her beside King Arthur, then sickens and dies himself. He is buried at Joyous Gard. Constantine reigns after Arthur, but the scant remnants of the Round Table are dispersed. Bors, Ector, Blamour, and Bleoberis go to the Holy Land to fight the infidel.
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Book Summary. Le Morte d'Arthur tells the story of King Arthur and his Knights at the Round Table. Arthur, who is son of King Uther Pendragon but was raised by another family, takes his rightful place as king when, as a boy, he is able to pull the sword called Excalibur from the stone. Although he rules wisely and is counseled by Merlin the ...
