Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between landscape and gender in Marie de France’s Lanval and two of its adaptations: the fourteenth-century English romances Sir Launfal and Sir Landevale. Engaging with the ecofeminist principles of Val Plumwood, it contends that the character of the “fairy mistress” and the nature of her otherworldly realm undergo significant changes by adaptation into Middle English, specifically, changes that diminish female agency. As she is adapted into English texts, especially Sir Launfal, the Lanval fairy is made subject to patriarchal hierarchies, and the otherworld is similarly presented as an object of patrimony.
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