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summary of Book 12 - The Chevalier Mal Fet

After two years of open-air nude raving in the wild wood, Launcelot was eventually captured by Sir Bliant and his brother Selivant, a good knight who tried to help him recover his wits by looking after him at his castle, though in chains.

A year and a half later, Launcelot broke the chains to save Bliant from Sir Breuse Saunce Pite and his brother Bertelot (who lost a hand in the fight). Six months after that he went absent to join a passing boar hunt and was gored in a hermitage. Eventually he escaped and returned to the city of Corbin, and after winning the town's acceptance as the village idiot was one day spotted by Elaine, sleeping by the well in her garden. There Dame Brisen cast a sleep spell upon him, and King Pelles had him taken to the Sangreal, and Launcelot was healed and made "sane" again.

Too embarassed to go home, Launcelot was put up by King Pelles in Castle Bliant and assumed the name "Le Chevaler Mal Fet" (the knight who has trespassed). He renamed the island on which the castle stood as "Joyous Isle" and was soon back on form anonymously winning jousts again.

Eventually, Sirs Percivale and Ector appeared, looking for a random scrap, and after Percivale crossed the lake he and Launcelot fought, finally recognising each other after a two hour fight. Then Launcelot's brother Ector and Elaine joined them, and they relaxed together.

Meanwhile Sirs Bors and Lionel collected Helin le Blank (Bors' fifteen year-old son out of King Brandegore's daughter) and took him to Camelot to be made a Round Table knight.

Ector also persuaded Launcelot to end his years of self-imposed exile, and bidding farewell to all at Corbin (including a tearful Elaine and a by-now fifteen-year-old Galahad) they rode with Percivale back to Logris.

Welcoming Launcelot back after his unexplained five year absence, Arthur assumed he had gone mad for the love of Elaine, but many knew about Guenevere's part in the affair.

Sir Tristram rode off unarmoured to Camelot for the Feast of Pentecost, and on the way at last encountered Palomides, who at first refused to fight the unarmoured Tristram, but Tristram borrowed a suit from Palomides' last victim (Sir Galleron of Galway, bleeding nearby) and they set to. It was a close fight, but after two hours "by fortune Sir Tristram smote Palomides' sword out of his hand" and a dispirited Palomides asked to be forgiven for being desirous of Tristram's woman and asked to be friends again.

Tristam accepted, and he and Galleron were Palomides' Godfathers when the Saracen was finally christened later that day by the Suffragan of Carlisle, and they rode together to Camelot for the Feast of Pentecost, where also was headed Galahad.

And after the feast "... Sir Tristram returned again unto Joyous Gard, and Sir Palomides followed the Questing Beast." And now the stage is set for The Quest of the Sangreal.