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and the daughter of the Fisher King. But it is Lancelot’s illicit love for Guinevere which is central to La Mort le Roi Artu, for it is the reef on which the Christian ethos of the Round Table finally founders. The first branch of the saga, Lancelot del Lac, is courtly in tone, the Queste ascetic and mystic (with Galahad presented as a Christ-figure) and La Mort Artu dominated by a doomed conflict of human loyalties. But the death of Arthur did not end the legend, which continued to proliferate. The