What I Do for Love

The story of the Knight of the Cart  starts the same way as Erec and Enide. It would start off by introducing the story but then switching up the topics. Eventually it went back into the correct story within a few pages. I thought that telling the story of a different  knight finding the Queen was quite interesting. I personally still wouldn't let my wife be taken into the woods by some random knight for some prisoners but hey the king wanted to save the people.

I still don't like the fact that we don't know who these knights are until the middle of the story. For instance the name of the random knight who stormed into the castle demanding that the queen be sent into the woods was named Meleagant.  Lancelot is the name of the other mysterious knight who has set out to protect the queen and to find her along with Sir Gawain. But it makes it harder to follow along in the story without knowing the names upfront.

Sir Gawain and Lancelot set out this crazy journey to find the queen. Lancelot almost gets speared by a flaming spear. He finds the girl that promises to have sex with him getting raped and then saves her eventually. Lancelot finds the queens comb with her hair and knows that he is getting close to her. But this guy here is going through hell and back for the queen.  Lancelot becomes known as the Knight of the Cart because of all his traveling he does from place to place while riding in a cart.  I wonder that if riding in this cart would ruin his reputation but so far I see as a way to just get around to find the Queen. Maybe people may see as dishonorable because its not a Knightly way of transportation but hey whatever floats his bout for trying to rescue the Queen as long as he gets to her.

 

 

Lancelot goes through a lot  for "Love" and his determination shows his love that he has for the queen. This guy chooses the most dangerous path of crossing a Sword Bridge  in order to save the Queen. I wouldn't go through on traveling on a sword bridge for anyone. But I was slightly disappointed because I thought the sword bridge would be more death defying and scary. But back then just the fact that it was a Bridge that was a Sword would've been seen as scary then.  It was just easy for him to get across without a problem.  Which I saw as boring! I have a theory that the queen may be leaving some sort of trail for the two knights to find her. This is just a guess because every time Lancelot and Gawain gets closer to the queen she's off again with Meleagant. Overall,  people do crazy things when there in love. And Lancelot has a lot of love for the Queen.