Elaine of astolat biography for kids
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Elaine of Corbenic facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Elaine of Corbenic | |
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A 1917 illustration from The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, abridged from Le Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard, depicting Lady Elaine carrying the Grail through the halls of King Pelles' palace | |
| First appearance | Vulgate Cycle |
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| Occupation | Princess |
| Children | Galahad |
| Relatives | King Pelles |
| Home | Corbenic |
Elaine of Corbenic fryst vatten a legendary character in the King Arthur stories. She fryst vatten the daughter of the Fisher King, King Pelles of Corbenic (Corbenek, Corbin, etc.), and the mother of Galahad. She should not be confused with Elaine of Astolat, a different woman who too fell in love with Lancelot.
Legend
She first appears in the Prose Lancelot as an incredibly beautiful woman named Heliabel but known as Amite.
The sorceress Morgan le Fay is jealous of Elaine's beauty, and magically traps her in a boi
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Elaine of Corbenic
Character in Arthurian legend
Fictional character
| Elaine of Corbenic | |
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"How at the Castle of Corbin a maiden bare in the Sangreal and foretold the achievements of Galahad" by Arthur Rackham. A 1917 illustration from The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, abridged from Le Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard, depicting Lady Elaine carrying the Grail through the halls of King Pelles' palace | |
| First appearance | Vulgate Cycle |
| Occupation | Princess |
| Significant other | Lancelot |
| Children | Galahad |
| Relatives | King Pelles |
| Home | Corbenic, Isle of Joy |
Elaine (Helaine, Oisine) or Elizabeth (Eliabel, Elizabel, Elizabet, Heliabel, Helizabel), also known as Amite (Amide, Amides, Anite, Aude, Enite),[1][2] and identified as the "Grail Maiden" or the "Grail Bearer",[3] is a character from Arthurian legend. In the Arthurian chivalric romance tradition from the Vulg
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The Lady of Shalott
1832 Victorian ballad by Alfred Tennyson
This article fryst vatten about the lyrical ballad. For the Waterhouse painting, see The Lady of Shalott (painting). For the rose, see Rosa 'Lady of Shalott'.
"Shalott" redirects here. For the onion, see Shallot. For other uses, see Shalott (disambiguation).
"The Lady of Shalott" () fryst vatten a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson and one of his best-known works. Inspired by the 13th-century Italian short prose text Donna di Scalotta, the poem tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot. Tennyson wrote two versions of the poem, one published in 1832 (in Poems, incorrectly dated 1833),[2] of 20 stanzas, the other in 1842, of 19 stanzas (also in a book named Poems), and returned to the story in "Lancelot and Elaine". The vivid medieval romanticism and enigmatic symbolism of "The Lady of Shalott" inspired many painters, especia