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A Legend of Tintagel Castle

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

First published 1832
Type Poem

Lancelot is riding through a forest and meets a wood nymph, who leads him to a cave and spends some time in a love-nest with him. Then he goes to war, and switches his attention to Queen Guinevere. The wood nymph pines away, and the members of Arthur's court see a boat drifting down the river with her corpse on a bier on the deck.

Tells a story similar to the well-known tale of Elaine of Astolat (the Lady of Shalott).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1832 Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book (1833) Fisher, Son, & Co. Collection 8
April 1999 Cover Arthurian Literature by Women Garland Publishing Anthology 51