Abstract
The ambiguity surrounding Morgan in the Latin sources is expanded and deepened, shifting from the ‘end’ of Arthur’s life to the shaping of his court and his knights in later medieval literature. In many of the selections studied in this chapter, Arthur’s court and his knights display an immaturity that, while a natural point in development, needs to be overcome. This youthfulness is most clearly stated in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, but also appears in Thomas Chestre’s Sir Launfal and Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival. In each work, the advice to or treatment of the knight by an immature court is shown to fall short of the task of encouraging necessary growth. The additional training that a knight requires, then, must be found elsewhere, outside the confines of courtly custom. Knights must wander or become ‘errant,’ if they are to expand their experiences, and they most often accomplish this necessary errancy in the forest.
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