NIGHTBRINGER | The Arthurian Encyclopedia

Queen of Great Sorrows


The alias used by Elaine, Lancelot’s mother, when she retired to a nunnery after Claudas’s invasion of her land, her husband’s death, and her son’s abduction by the Lady of the Lake.


Sources
Lancelot do Lac | 1215-1220
Vulgate Lancelot | 1215-1230