Sir Griflet

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Griflet also Girflet or Jaufré is a legend figure from the Artussage and the Artus novel . He is the cousin of Sir Bedivere and Sir Lucan .

background

According to the story Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory young griflet King Arthur asks one day about that this makes him one of his knights. And Merlin advises the king not to turn this warrior down, as he will become a good fighter once he is an adult. And if he did go on adventures, it wouldn't be certain that he would return, but he was one of the best and strongest armed knights in the world. Arthur makes Sir Griflet a knight. He promises to compete against the Knight of the Well in a tournament. So Sir Griflet challenges the knight at the well and brings him down.

Griflet heard after his knighthood to the first Knights of the Round Table, but has served previously as a squire at the court there. In the struggles of King Arthur for rule in Britain, he and his relatives are among the king's most loyal comrades-in-arms. Later on he remained an avid follower and was at his side in the fateful battle of Camlann . As one of the few he survived the slaughter and is commissioned by the dying Arthur to throw the sword Excalibur into the lake.

In Le Morte d'Arthur , however, he is killed at the side of Lancelot in the fight for the kidnapped Guinevere . In this version, Sir Bedivere has the mission to sink Excalibur.

In Jaufré , the only surviving Arthurian romance in the Provencal language , he is the main hero.

literature

  • Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur . Wordsworth Editions, 1996, ISBN 1-85326-463-6 , pp. 359 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Thomas Bulfinch: Bulfinch's Mythology the Age of Chivalry . Echo Library, 2006, ISBN 1-84702-961-2 , pp. 124 ff . (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur. Online book on sacred-texts.com . (English)
  • Thomas Malory: The Last Battle of King Arthur. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54811-6 . (German edition of Le Morte Darthur. )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sir Griflet's fight with the Knight of the Well in Le Morte Darthur Book I, Chapter XII