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Question: What are some main achievements of sir lancelot!?
he was a knight of the round table!.
i have a project on him and i have to find three greatest achievements of him!.
i have to have resources so if u could please give me links with ur answers!
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
An excellent summary of the “Prose Lancelot' can be found at http://www!.timelessmyths!.com/arthurian/l!.!.!. !.

But Lancelot is a character who appears in many other texts as well!.

Perhaps the three greatest feats in the “Prose Lancelot” would be Lancelot's conquest of Dolorous Gard, Lancelot’s deeds in battle against Galahaut’s army during Galahaut’s war with Arthur, and Lancelot's deeds as leader of Arthur’s host during the invasion of the Saxons at Arestuel in Scotland!. Though you may prefer Lancelot’s conquest of the Dolorous Tower to one of these!.

All these appear in full in the book “Lancelot of the Lake” (see http://books!.google!.com/books!?id=eI5_Bxx!.!.!. ) which translates parts of the first section of the “Prose Lancelot”!. A book which translates sections from the entire Lancelot-Grail cycle is “The Lancelot-Grail Reader”!. See http://books!.google!.com/books!?id=y03gJQA!.!.!. !. Using either of these should impress you teacher in providing all kinds of information for your project outside of “Le Morte d’Arthur” !.The author of “Le Morte d’Arthur”, Sir Thomas Malory, seems not to have had access to the great “Prose Lancelot” save for some fragments which he adapted, and some sections included in the version of the “Prose Tristan” which he was using!.

See also Christoper Bruce’s Athurian Name Dictionary at http://www!.celtic-twilight!.com/camelot/b!.!.!. which will provide lots of information on persons and places in Arthurian legend, though it does have errors, which is understandable considering its size!.

For some more modern treatments of Lancelot see http://www!.library!.rochester!.edu/camelot!.!.!. !.Www@QuestionHome@Com