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"and if i were god," she said, "i would not have made lancelot any smaller or bigger."

"no one could have found fault with any part of him, but people who saw him did agree that, if his chest had been a bit less fully developed, he would have been much more attractive. later on, the worthy queen guenevere [...] said that god had not given him a chest in any way too big or deep or expansive, for it suited his great heart[...]"

the trans lancelot passage

the number of arthurian books i fix up on goodreads......i should become a librarian but i cannot be bothered

I record here for posterity that this is the page on which Gawain says he'd be turned into a maiden as long as Lancelot loved him best.

Not sure about a source for this. Wondering whether Ulrich von Zatzikhoven wrote Lanzelet after this, or whether Lanzelet predated it. Should look that up.

Hmm, slightly different origin story for Merlin than in the earlier part of the Cycle: it doesn't crib from Robert de Boron. Of course, this section was written first.