Queen of the Waste Lands

Role: recluse and former queen · First appears: Book XIV, Chapter I

Life events

• The recluse reveals that she is Sir Percivale's aunt, formerly the Queen of the Waste Lands.(Book XIV, Chapter I)
  • With: Sir Percivale
  • “Yea, said she, I well ought to know you, for I am your aunt, although I be in a priory place. For some called me sometime the Queen of the Waste Lands”
• The Queen identifies the knight with the white shield as Sir Galahad, invincible by earthly men.(Book XIV, Chapter I)
  • With: Sir Percivale Galahad
  • “Wit you well, said she, that this is he, for otherwise ought he not to do, but to go in red arms; and that same knight hath no peer”
• Ladies brought a dead corpse believed to be King Arthur and buried him in the chapel.(Book XXI, Chapter VI · 📍 chapel)
  • With: King Arthur Morgan le Fay Queen of Northgalis Nimue
  • “But this night, at midnight, here came a number of ladies, and brought hither a dead corpse, and prayed me to bury him;”

Book XIV, Chapter I

• younger kin: Sir Percivale (Aunt to nephew.) “Yea, said she, I well ought to know you, for I am your aunt, although I be in a priory place.”
• protégé: Sir Percivale (She hosts and offers hospitality to Sir Percivale.) “And then she commanded the gates to be opened, and there he had all the cheer that she might make him, and all that was in her power was at his commandment.”

Book XXI, Chapter VI

• with King Arthur (The Queen of the Waste Lands was among the ladies who brought King Arthur to his burial.) “Thus of Arthur I find never more written in books that be authorised, nor more of the very certainty of his death heard I never read, but thus was he led away in a ship wherein were three queens; that one was King Arthur’s sister, Queen Morgan le Fay; the other was the Queen of Northgalis; the third was the Queen of the Waste Lands. Also there was Nimue, the chief lady of the lake, that had wedded Pelleas the good knight; and this lady had done much for King Arthur, for she would never suffer Sir Pelleas to be in no place where he should be in danger of his life; and so he lived to the uttermost of his days with her in great rest. More of the death of King Arthur could I never find, but that ladies brought him to his burials;”

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