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Matthew Keeley matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 09:08:02 PDT 2010


On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:27 AM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> And there's also the eery significance of carts in /*Le Morte d'Arthur*/
> and elsewhere: The condemned were carried in carts to the gallows, but
> goddesses were also carried in carts in procession long before that.
> So a witch's or fairy's riding "twice in a cart" could mean something very
> precise, but I couldn't guess what.
>
>
At one point Lancelot, questing to save Guenivere, loses his horse, swallows
his pride, and rides in a cart to save the queen. Indeed, Lancelot was
sometimes known as "The Knight of the Cart".

-Matt
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