From the Lake to the Fountain

This article is based on certain episodes in the Prose Lancelot, in the edition of Alexandre Micha (Geneva: Droz, 1979), in particular volume IV: the poisoned fountain, pp. 133-59; the second encounter of the healer damsel with Lancelot, pp. 215-22; the damsel of the well, pp. 300-07, 330-32; the damsel at court, pp. 354, 367-71. A summary follows here of the relevant events of those pages.