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Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart by Chrétien de Troyes - Part 9
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Part Nine.
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Lancelot meets the Queen outside her prison where iron bars in the window stand between them and frustrate their mutual desire to be together. Additionally, Kay the wounded seneschal sleeps in the room. Yet, Lancelot declares that the bars will not prevent him from entering, unless the Queen forbids it.
Guinevere gladly invites Lancelot to her bed. He tears the iron bars out of the window and injures two fingers. Yet, Lancelot does not even notice his bleeding wounds, as he is completely fixated upon the Queen. The two finally and joyfully consummate their forbidden love.
Then, Lancelot leaves and returns the iron bars, so that it looks as though no one entered. However, his bloody fingers stained the Queen's sheets. Meleagant visits her the next day and notices the blood. He accuses the Queen and Kay of misconduct, as Kay's wounds bled during the night and the circumstantial evidence is strong.
Meleagant demands to fight Kay, yet King Bademagu determines that he is too weak to fight. Guinevere summons a knight to fight on his behalf. It is Lancelot who appears to fight Meleagant in defense of Kay and the Queen. He and Meleagant battle, yet Bademagu once again pleads with the Queen to command her knight to stop. Bademagu then convinces his vengeful son to wait for the arranged battle at Arthur's court.
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