Seat of Peril

Lancelot en prose. Français 113
Lancelot en prose. Français 113
Source: gallica.bnf.fr

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 113, fol. 100r.

Only the most worthy knight could sit without punishment in the ‘siege perilleux.’ Mois misjudged his own merit and was slapped about by seven flaming hands, then carried by the hands away to the forest for further torment.

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