Arthurian Legends

katiemcgrath:

Sir Lancelot takes Queen Guinevere’s body to glastonbury & buries her with King Arthur. Soon after, overcome with grief, Sir Lancelot himself dies at the Monastery, surrounded by his brothers. He is buried at Joyous Gard.

Sir Launcelot never after ate but little meat, ne drank, till he was dead. For then he sickened more and more, and dried, and dwined away. For the Bishop nor none of his fellows might not make him to eat, and little he drank, that he was waxen by a cubit shorter than he was, that the people could not know him. For evermore, day and night, he prayed, but sometime he slumbered a broken sleep; ever he was lying grovelling on the tomb of King Arthur and Queen Guenever. And there was no comfort that the Bishop, nor Sir Bors, nor none of his fellows, could make him, it availed not. So within six weeks after, Sir Launcelot fell sick, and lay in his bed; and then he sent for the Bishop that there was hermit, and all his true fellows. Then Sir Launcelot said with dreary steven: Sir Bishop, I pray you give to me all my rites that longeth to a Christian man.

— Excerpt taken from Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory