King Pellinore
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King Pellinore is a British king in the Arthurian legend. In the tradition from the Old French prose, he is an early ally of King Arthur, being associated with the Questing Beast and featuring as the
"King Pellinore and the Damsel at the Well", Francis Arthur Fraser's illustration for Henry Frith's King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table (1884).
Robert Coote as Pellinore in the musical Camelot (1963).
Questing Beast
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The Questing Beast, or the Beast Glatisant, is a cross-animal monster appearing in many medieval texts of the Arthurian legend and modern works inspired by them. In the French prose cycles, and conseq
King Pellinore
…is a British king in the Arthurian legend. In the tradition from the Old French prose, he is an early ally of King Arthur, being associated with the Questing Beast and featuring as the slayer of King Lot, later killed in turn by Lot's sons. Depending on the version, his many children may include Aglovale, Lamorak…
Arthur and the Questing Beast by Henry Justice Ford (1904)
An anatomically-incorrect giraffe as depicted in an Arabic illustration from the 13th-century, contemporary to the French texts introducing the fanciful Questing Beast
Arthur Rackham's illustration for Alfred W. Pollard's The Romance of King Arthur (1917), adapted from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur