Elaine of Corbenic
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Elaine, also known under many other names and identified as the "Grail Maiden" or the "Grail Bearer", is a character from Arthurian legend. In the Arthurian chivalric romance tradition from the Vulgat
"How at the Castle of Corbin a maiden bare in the Sangreal and foretold the achievements of Galahad" by Arthur Rackham. A 1917 illustration from The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, abridged from Le Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard, depicting Lady Elaine carrying the Grail through the halls of King Pelles' palace
The Once and Future King
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The Once and Future King is a collection of fantasy novels by T. H. White about the legend of King Arthur. It is loosely based upon the 1485 work Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory. It was first p
Elaine of Corbenic
…the other Elaine, including explicitly in the form of The Lady of Shalott. T. H. White, too, combined the two Elaines into a composite character in The Once and Future King (where he mixed comedy and tragedy for her story), in part due to yet another Elaine connected to Lancelot in Malory as his mother. Conversely, it was…
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