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Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart

by Chretien de Troyes, Burton Raffel · 1181

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In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers the fourth of Chretien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems. This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as an important figure in the King Arthur legend.

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