#sorelois

[liminalpsych]

A very, very roughly sketched, unedited scene that wouldn't leave me alone this morning and demanded to be written (....oh hey @queer-ragnelle! I accidentally made a Lusty Month of May / May Day Parade contribution!):

The week they arrive at Sorelois. Perhaps even the day. Guinevere is half-mad with rage and grief, reeling from Arthur's betrayal, the loss of her marriage, of her court. It's the usurping of her entire life.

It makes her bold. It makes her want to be cruel. It makes her want to strike back or to take what she wants or to rebel in some small or large way. It makes her want to hurt Arthur in turn, or transgress since she has already been spurned from society and convicted for something for which she's innocent.

"There is something I wish to see," Guinevere says, there in the somber quiet of the receiving room with Lancelot, Galehaut, and Lady Bloie of Malehaut. An announcement to the air, undirected.

Lancelot responds first, of course, as expected. He kneels before her, the picture of earnest devotion. "Whatever you wish, my queen, I will strive my utmost to bring it to you."

Across the room, towering nigh to the ceiling even leaned against the wall as he is, Galehaut watches her with a carefully neutral expression. Unblinking, unsmiling, and there's the barest tightening around his eyes. He is wary of her still, and senses her mood.

The Lady of Malehaut is a different kind of unreadable entirely, lounging next to her with a spot of embroidery to keep her clever hands busy. Her full mouth is always a breath away from smiling, like she carries with her a trove of private amusements at all times. She observes from beneath half-lidded eyes, her needle flashing through cloth more by touch than sight.

Guinevere lifts her loyal knight's chin with a touch of her finger. His lips part, eyes wide and wondering. She smiles. "I want to you to give Galehaut a kiss."

Ah, if only she dared to watch Galehaut's expression in that moment! Yet she must keep her focus on Lancelot. His face pales. His breath catches in his throat. His pulse thrums against her finger like a trapped and frantic bird. "M-my queen?" he stammers, gaze darting side to side as if for an escape.

Her smile sharpens, serpentine. "Do you not wish to?"

"I— I am not—" He's breathing rapid and shallow now, on the edge of panic. It's a pretty quandary she's put him in, one with no known safe answer, and he's reeling under it.

(She feels more steady by the moment, her control re-establishing in the small sphere she still possesses.)

Galehaut steps forward. There's the edge of fury in his warning, in the creak of leather and the rattle of maille. "My lady," he rumbles.

Now Guinevere looks his way, and she lifts a graceful eyebrow at the storm in his countenance. Lancelot quivers beneath her touch, unmoored by the loss of her pinning gaze. "Will you tell me truly that you don't want this, Galehaut?"

He halts. His jaw works; the stormclouds thicken. He glares, proud and silent.

Guinevere laughs. It's a free, bell-like sound—as playful as a day a-Maying. Lancelot stills and his breathing steadies, soothed by her apparent merriment. She makes a show of taking pity on him, releasing his chin to stroke his cheek. "Do you wish to kiss me?" she murmurs, leaning closer.

His breath catches again, no different than before. He nods.

She kisses him, sweet and soft; he returns it with a small desperate sound against her lips. (It tastes like power.) He's breathless when she pulls away, and she smiles down at him, indulgent. "I know Galehaut desires a kiss from you as well," she says, "and he is the one who brought us together, yes?"

Another nod, and Lancelot seems more dazed than panicked now. Swaying towards her, and glancing shyly towards his boon companion, who draws a sharp bracing breath.

"It is not as if he's a lady," she says with a wink. "So it is not being untrue to me. And it is my request, is it not?"

"Y—yes, my lady...?"

"Do you not want to kiss him?"

"I..." Those expressive eyes flicker from her lips to Galehaut's and back again. His breath quickens again, but this time it is a little less panicked. "My lady, you ask hard questions," he says at last, helplessly.

She laughs again, darkened with satisfaction. "Kiss him, then," she commands, "and then tell me if you want to do it again."

"My lady," protests Galehaut, strained—oh, and there is longing so sharp that it is agonized, bare and naked in every rigid muscle and the aching furrow of his brow. He looks at Lancelot like a man starving. He looks at Guinevere like a man betrayed.

To give Galehaut what he so desperately desires, when he knows it is something she can take away at any moment? To receive a kiss from his Lancelot, but only on the order of Lancelot's lover-queen? For Galehaut to touch his companion in the way he desires, but only so long as Guinevere allows it, never knowing truly if Lancelot would have initiated on his own, never being certain of Lancelot's desire?

It's a power like none she's ever wielded before.

Lancelot stumbles to Galehaut on unsteady legs with a last hesitant glance over his shoulder. Guinevere smiles encouragingly and nods her approval. One last nudge—and still, Galehaut could refuse Lancelot. Galehaut is sworn to neither Guinevere nor Arthur; he needs not obey her. Galehaut could save the last unconquered edges of his heart and maintain this last barrier of distance. He could still refuse himself what he wants so badly.

Galehaut tenses, and Galehaut wavers, and Galehaut's heaves great draughts of air as if he's in the thick of a melee.

Lancelot reaches out, and Galehaut surrenders.

[roimargot]

There’s a giant plot in my head explaining why Galehaut and Arthur can have a special kind of relationships with each other because they represent human world and magical Fae world as kings.

Believe me i ship them because of REASONS

(and also I’m back bitches)

[talesfromtheenchantedforest]

brb daydreaming about Lancelot NOT ONLY having buckets of tender gay sex during his three years in Sorelois BUT ALSO making real and important and lasting friendships with people who aren’t Galehaut:

When Lancelot heard this news [that Arthur and all his forces are coming for him :( ], he sent a messenger to the kingdoms of Benoic and Gaunes and told his barons to stock their fortresses, so that if he happened to leave Great Britain and had to enter the kingdom of Gaunes, he would find castles strong and defensible enough to enable him to hold out against King Arthur, if necessary. Then he sent word to Sorelois and to the kingdom of the Land Beyond, to all the knights to whom he had rendered service, that they should take his side against King Arthur. And because Lancelot was so beloved everywhere, so many of them came that, even if he had been a king with his own territories, he could have have assembled such a great force.

— The Death of Arthur, Chapter 13, Norris J. Lacy translation

[tillman]

I think galehauts castle should be a proper haunted House yknow. Like it mourns his death with a cracked foundation the weight of the giant now finally bowing its ground once he is no longer there to support it. The castle loves galehaut. Galehaut who loves and loves and loves the people he has. Tje castle emulating galehaut. Yknow

SEE. THATS WHAT IT IS !! ITRS LITEARLLY LIKE THIS IN TEXT!!!! hold on i need to get the actual line the way its worded makes me absolutely insane. the castle is his heart its the thing that represents his rule and its CRUMBLING when he gets back with lancelot. in the prophecy talking about his death the walls are actively falling around them. its half his sickness in not being able to have lancelot and half his own honor crumbling away as he neglects his role in the text as a lord just to be with lancelot.

ok vaguely long quote incoming (Book III of the Lancelot, chapter 73):

Galehaut took a path to the right which led to a castle of his that he had lately fortified. It stood on the most unassailable site in all his holdings and he himself had named it the Proud Fortress, because of its beauty and its strength, and he had boasted that there he would hold King Arthur captive.

... At last they faced the castle, and at that moment an extraordinary thing happened to Galehaut that overwhelmed him more than anything else he had ever seen: the tower, set into the enclosing wall, cracked right down the middle, and all the crenels on one side crumbled. Galehaut stopped short, too shocked to say a word. He crossed himself in an instant at the sight of such a wonder, and starting forward had hardly gone a stone's throw when the whole side of the wall and tower who's crenels had collapsed now came crashing down as well, And the fracas was so great it seemed the whole earth had split apart.

When Galehaut saw his castle crumble, it's no wonder if he was grieved... "Ah, God! what a cruel way for my downfall to begin!"

...

"My lord," said the steward, "the loss is in fact less heavy for you than it is extraordinary, stranger than anything I've ever heard of. In the whole kingdom of Sorelois, you see, half of every castle has collapsed in the last twenty days."

"That's one thing," said Galehaut, "that doesn't trouble me much. I myself witnessed the fall of the fortress I loved most in the world, and it didn't grieve me. I'll tell you why- now, with all my men right here. I have been the most remarkable man who's ever lived, with a heart so remarkable that, if it were lodged in a small body, I don't see how it could last long... Don't marvel if the greatest wonders that you've heard of occur where I am in charge, for just as I have been most remarkable the most remarkable things are bound to happen to me."

ok i got distracted by a rabbit hole with rey and am Not transcribing more but just this. elias summoning LITERALLY the devil to slash at the wall to show how many years Galehaut has left through the circles it left. its all so like blatant symbolism for Galehauts own decent and his refusal to fill his duties and honor and all worldly possessions as he fights to prove himself not worthy of like. kingship like he was but instead as like. worthy of life and fighting against the fate assigned to him just to be with lancelot for a sliver longer. and how finding lancelots blood in the bed they shared is what truly killed him. its a lot. the symbolism in the vulgate is a lot.

[gawrkin]

The absolute funniest thing about the Vulgate’s account of why Guinevere knighted Lancelot instead of Arthur is that Lancelot specifically ditched Arthur before he could get fully knighted (girding the sword) so that Guinevere could knight him instead. Mans down bad

Oh yeah, definitely.

The real kicker is that later, Lancelot's supreme fealty to Guinvere is definitively proven during False Guinevere arc.

When Arthur abandons the real Gwen, Lancelot leaves the Round Table and joins Guinevere in exile to Galehaut's kingdom in Sorelois. For Two Years. Until Arthur repents and False Gwen dies.

Only Gawain remains loyal to Arthur and stays with him throughout the arc.

[the-green-light-district]

I'm not saying for certain that Galehaut is the one who introduced Lancelot to MCR, but I am saying they spent a lot of time in Sorelois with nothing better to do except kiss and make eachother silly little playlists.

[chronivore]

Cabala

[anxiously-awaiting]

[friendofmordred]

again love that in le morte they just refer to galahad by galehaut's titles all the time. he inherited them. he's the duke of sorelois too.

[cardinalvalentino]

why tf that post so long. perish

Galehaut (or Galaha[l/u]t, Galeho[l]t, Gallehau[l]t, Galhault, Galetto, et al.) is a very tall knight in the Arthurian legend. He is most prominent within the Lancelot-Grail prose cycle where he is a noble enemy turned an ally of King Arthur as well as an inseparable friend (and possible lover, according to some interpretations of the early 13th-century "Lancelot propre", from the Vulgate Cycle[1]) of Arthur's champion Lancelot. The figure of Galehaut should not be mistaken with Lancelot's son, Galahad (which is also Lancelot's own birth name), and some other similarly named characters.

Contents 1 Legend 2 Legacy 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading

Legend

Galehaut, lord of the Distant Isles (le sire des Isles Lointaines),[2] appears for the first time in the Matter of Britain in the "Book of Galehaut" section of the early 13th-century Prose Lancelot Proper, the central work in the series of anonymous Old French prose romances collectively known as Lancelot-Grail (the Vulgate Cycle). An ambitious, towering figure of a man, he emerges from obscurity to challenge King Arthur for possession of Arthur's realm of Logres. Though unknown to Arthur and his court, Galehaut has already conquered lands and acquired considerable power, loyal followers, and a reputation for being a noble character. The Vulgate Cycle and the Prose Tristan describe him as "the son of the Fair Giantess" (fils de la Bele Jaiande), given the name Bagotta in La Tavola Ritonda,[3] and the evil human lord Brunor, both of whom are later killed by Tristan who takes over their castle. Galehaut also has a sister, named Delice in the Prose Tristan and Riccarda in the Italian version I Due Tristani.[4]

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'Lacelot', 'Gallehault', and Guinevere: "How the first acquaintance was made with Galhault by the Lady of Logres." Lancelot en prose, c. 1494

In the ensuing war, it becomes clear that Galehaut's army is going to win against Arthur's. However, Galehaut is so awed by the battlefield prowess of one of Arthur's knights, the mysterious Black Knight, that for his sake he renounces a certain victory and surrenders to Arthur. The knight, who turns out to be the young Lancelot, gratefully accepts Galehaut's companionship. What follows is a tale of love, interpreted by some as friendship and by some modern readers as homosexuality,[5][6][7][8] in which Galehaut figures as the central character as he becomes the tragic hero in the story. Galehaut, just as he has surrendered to Arthur, gives way before Guinevere, yielding Lancelot to her. He also joins Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, and later gives refuge to Lancelot and Guinevere in his land of Sorelois during the False Guinevere episode. He ultimately dies by longing for Lancelot, having been separated with him (Lancelot was first kidnapped by Morgan le Fay and then went mad and disappeared) and after receiving false news of his death. Lancelot, at the end of his own life, is buried next to Galehaut at his castle of Joyous Gard in the tomb that he had built to consecrate and eternalise their companionship. Long after his death, Galehaut continues to be commonly recalled as an exemplar of greatness.

Since the early 13th century, there have been numerous retellings of the life, loves and chivalry of Lancelot's career and the story of his adulterous liaison with Queen Guinevere has always been part of every significant account of King Arthur. The second, overlapping love story, however, the one related in the Prose Lancelot, in which Galehaut sacrifices his power, his happiness, and ultimately his life for the sake of Lancelot, has been largely forgotten. The character himself reappears in a number of Arthurian tales, in several different languages, but without the same significance. The best known retelling in English, the 15th-century Le Morte d'Arthur of Thomas Malory, reduced him to just a relatively villainous minor "frenemy" of Lancelot's,[9] leaving Guinevere without a rival for Lancelot's affections, besides also relating a part of the Tristan side of the story in the part "The Book of Sir Tristrams de Lyons". In Italian romance Tristano Riccardiano, Galehaut dies of his wound following a duel with Tristan in an attempt to avenge the slaying of his parents, forgiving him in the end.[10]

One of closest companions of Lancelot in Malory's telling, including during Lancelot's war against Arthur and later joining him in the hermitage at the end of his life, is instead the similarly Knight of the Round Table named Galahodin (Galihod[i/y]n, Galyhod[i/y]n). Also known in other texts as Galehodin (Galaodin, Galeh[a/o]udin), he is Galehaut's nephew and successor as the king of Sorelois introduced in the Prose Lancelot. In the Tavola Ritonda, Galehaut's heir is his son named Abastubagio, a character partially corresponding with Galehodin (both appearing in their respective texts in the role of the host of tournament in Sorelois). Of note, Malory's Galahodin should not be further confused with Lancelot's relatives and companions (including together with Galahodin as Lancelot's fellow monks at the end) named Galyhod (Galyhud) and Gahalantyne, two original characters from Le Morte d'Arthur. After taking over the lands in France, Malory's Lancelot appoints Galahodin as the duke of Saintonge, Galyhod as the earl of Périgord, and Gahalantyne as the duke of Auvergne.

Legacy

As Dante says in the fifth canto of Inferno, Galehaut was the book that Paolo and Francesca had been reading, when they yield to their love. Dante mentions Galehaut [Inf. V, 137] as both the book itself and the author of it, intermediary between Lancelot and the Queen. And Boccaccio, moved by the great lord's generosity, uses his name as the subtitle of his Decameron ("Il Principe Galeotto"). In Spanish, galeoto is still an archaic word for a pimp.[11]

Subsequent novels, plays, poems, and films have accepted that simplification of the tale. Indeed, so obscure has Galehaut become that modern readers sometimes mistake the name for a mere variant of Galahad. Galahad is the "pure", the "chosen" knight who achieves the quest for the Holy Grail in a part of the Arthurian legend quite distinct from the story in which Galehaut appears. There is no connection between the two figures.

See also

Homosexuality in medieval Europe

Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles, or the "Book of Galehaut" Retold

References

Neill, James (2008). The Origins and Role of Same-Sex Relations In Human Societies. McFarland Publishing. pp. 346–348, part III, chapter 13, "Homoerotic Love in Medieval Literature". ISBN 978-0786469260.

Busby, Keith (2005). Arthurian Literature XXII. DS Brewer.

La Tavola ritonda, o L'istoria di Tristano: 1: Prefazione, testo dell'opera (in Italian). presso Gaetano Romagnoli. 1864.

Bruce, Christopher W. (2013). The Arthurian Name Dictionary. Routledge.

Hyatte, Reginald (1994). The Arts of Friendship: The Idealization of Friendship in Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature. BRILL. ISBN 9789004247017.

The World and Its Rival: Essays on Literary Imagination in Honor of Per Nykrog. Rodopi. 1999. ISBN 9789042006973.

Sandra Alvarez (4 January 2010). "Between Guinevere and Galehot: Homo/eroticism in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle". Medievalists.net. Retrieved 10 April 2019.

Roberts, Anna Klosowska (2016). Queer Love in the Middle Ages. Springer. ISBN 9781137088109.

Bruce, Christopher W. (2013). The Arthurian Name Dictionary. Routledge.

Allaire, Gloria; Psaki, Regina (2002). Italian Literature: Tristano Riccardiano. DS Brewer. ISBN 9781843840671.

galeoto in the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, 22nd edition. Compare to the role of Pandarus in English culture.

Further reading

For an English translation of the "Book of Galehaut" within the Prose Lancelot, see vol. 2 of Norris J. Lacy et al., Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation, 5 vols. (New York-London: Garland [now Routledge], 1993–1996).

For the evolution of the personage of Galehaut in works subsequent to the Prose Lancelot, see "Translation and Eclipse: The Case of Galehaut" in The Medieval Translator 8, ed. R. Voaden et al. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003): 245–255.

[gringolet]

Lancelot running to Galehaut for comfort after Elaine raped him and crying into his arms until he falls asleep out of exhaustion.

OUCH but also yes

like he rides straight from Corbenic to Sorelois without stopping and like faints off his horse in the courtyard and galehaut catches him and carries him inside

[poparthuriana]

Congratulations to the Grail Four, the winners of the Best Arthurian Friend Group Tournament! The runner-up was the Morally Dubious Sorceress Squad. Neglected Siblings won the Losers’ Bracket.

Thank you to everyone who voted. It was genuinely quite interesting to see how you all felt about the groups.

Team Sorelois had the two narrowest losses in the tournament, losing by 5.8% (two votes) to the Grail Four in the first round and 5.9% (one vote) to the Queen and Her Knights in the losers’ bracket. 

The biggest landslide wins were the Morally Dubious Sorceress Squad’s 80% lead on Werewolves Anonymous and Tristan’s Cornwall Gang’s 77.8% lead on Cador’s Cornwall Gang. 

I was the only person to vote for Cador’s Cornwall Gang against Lancelot Stans and Werewolves Anonymous. I knew they were going down…but…Guinier…

The only group to get zero votes on a poll was Uther and Friends against Magical Gatecrashers and Neglected Siblings. As @amashelle observed, Uther’s “presence in any list will naturally tank his team”.

[talesfromtheenchantedforest]

thinking about the "distant isles" Galehaut is lord of. Like, how distant could they possibly be. Gawain gets to Sorelois via bridge at one point. Which leads me to believe that the bridge is either a feat of spectacular magic and/or engineering or that Sorelois is like, five minutes from North Wales and everybody is just like NO TOO FAR

[tillman]

who's galehaut

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Galehaut (or Galaha[l/u]t, Galeho[l]t, Gallehau[l]t, Galhault, Galetto, et al.) is a half-giant knight in the Arthurian legend. He is most prominent within the Lancelot-Grail prose cycle where he is a noble enemy turned an ally of King Arthur as well as an inseparable friend (and possible lover, according to some interpretations of the early 13th-century "Lancelot propre", from the Vulgate Cycle[1]) of Arthur's champion Lancelot. The figure of Galehaut should not be mistaken with Lancelot's son, Galahad (which is also Lancelot's own birth name), and some other similarly named characters.

Galehaut's attributed arms

Legend

Edit

Galehaut, lord of the Distant Isles (le sire des Isles Lointaines),[2] appears for the first time in the Matter of Britain in the "Book of Galehaut" section of the early 13th-century Prose Lancelot Proper, the central work in the series of anonymous Old French prose romances collectively known as Lancelot-Grail (the Vulgate Cycle). An ambitious, towering figure of a man, he emerges from obscurity to challenge King Arthur for possession of Arthur's realm of Logres. Though unknown to Arthur and his court, Galehaut has already conquered lands and acquired considerable power, loyal followers, and a reputation for being a noble character. The Vulgate Cycle and the Prose Tristan describe him as "the son of the Fair Giantess" (fils de la Bele Jaiande), given the name Bagotta in La Tavola Ritonda,[3] and the evil human lord Brunor, both of whom are later killed by Tristan who takes over their castle. Galehaut also has a sister, named Delice in the Prose Tristan and Riccarda in the Italian version I Due Tristani.[4]

'Lacelot', 'Gallehault', and Guinevere: "How the first acquaintance was made with Galhault by the Lady of Logres." Lancelot en prose, c. 1494

In the ensuing war, it becomes clear that Galehaut's army is going to win against Arthur's. However, Galehaut is so awed by the battlefield prowess of one of Arthur's knights, the mysterious Black Knight, that for his sake he renounces a certain victory and surrenders to Arthur. The knight, who turns out to be the young Lancelot, gratefully accepts Galehaut's companionship. What follows is a tale of love, interpreted by some scholars as friendship[5] and by many as homosexuality,[6][7][8][9][5] in which Galehaut figures as the central character as he becomes the tragic hero in the story. Galehaut, just as he has surrendered to Arthur, gives way before Guinevere, yielding Lancelot to her. He also joins Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, and later gives refuge to Lancelot and Guinevere in his land of Sorelois during the False Guinevere episode. He ultimately dies by longing for Lancelot, having been separated with him (Lancelot was first kidnapped by Morgan le Fay and then went mad and disappeared) and after receiving false news of his death. Lancelot, at the end of his own life, is buried next to Galehaut at his castle of Joyous Gard in the tomb that he had built to consecrate and eternalise their companionship. Long after his death, Galehaut continues to be commonly recalled as an exemplar of greatness.

Since the early 13th century, there have been numerous retellings of the life, loves and chivalry of Lancelot's career and the story of his adulterous liaison with Queen Guinevere has always been part of every significant account of King Arthur. The second, overlapping love story, however, the one related in the Prose Lancelot, in which Galehaut sacrifices his power, his happiness, and ultimately his life for the sake of Lancelot, has been largely forgotten. The character himself reappears in a number of Arthurian tales, in several different languages, but without the same significance. The best known retelling in English, the 15th-century Le Morte d'Arthur of Thomas Malory, reduced him to just a relatively villainous minor "frenemy" of Lancelot's,[10] leaving Guinevere without a rival for Lancelot's affections, besides also relating a part of the Tristan side of the story in the part "The Book of Sir Tristrams de Lyons". Malory however gives a reminiscence of Galehaut's traditional role to a similarly named but different Knight of the Round Table named Galahodin, a character taken from Galehaut's son in law and successor, Galehodin from the Vulgate (in the Tavola Ritonda, Galehaut's heir is his son named Abastubagio). Malory furthermore created another of Lancelot's companions (and his own relative) similarly named Galyhod. In Italian romance Tristano Riccardiano, Galehaut dies of his wounds following a duel with Tristan in an attempt to avenge the slaying of his parents, forgiving him in the end.[11]

Legacy

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As Dante says in the fifth canto of Inferno, Galehaut was the book that Paolo and Francesca had been reading, when they yield to their love. Dante mentions Galehaut [Inf. V, 137] as both the book itself and the author of it, intermediary between Lancelot and the Queen. And Boccaccio, moved by the great lord's generosity, uses his name as the subtitle of his Decameron ("Il Principe Galeotto"). In Spanish, galeoto is still an archaic word for a pimp.[12]

Subsequent novels, plays, poems, and films have accepted that simplification of the tale. Indeed, Galehaut has become so obscure that modern readers sometimes mistake the name for a mere variant of Galahad. Galahad is the "pure", the "chosen" knight who achieves the quest for the Holy Grail in a part of the Arthurian legend quite distinct from the story in which Galehaut appears. There is no connection between the two figures.

See also

Edit

Homosexuality in medieval Europe

Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles, or the "Book of Galehaut" Retold

[talesfromtheenchantedforest]

Cannot stop thinking about the disconnect between how the foreshadowing in the Lancelot-Grail tells us Galehaut is going to die versus how he actually dies. All the prophecies and authorial asides that say Lancelot ultimately will leave Galehaut for Guenevere, thus dooming him. Which ... doesn't happen? He, I would argue, leaves Galehaut (not permanently, not intentionally permanently) to continue his chivalric exploits. (Although I will say there is a fascinating connection in that Guenevere is the one who is inspiring him to do his heroic best, in like a courtly love sense.) And he fails to return to Galehaut, not because he has left him for Guenevere, but because he has been kidnapped and imprisoned by Morgan le Fey. And the SECOND he gets loose and is scared and hurt and lost he books it to Sorelois to find Galehaut, and it is only a tragic accident of timing that they miss each other long enough for Galehaut to think Lancelot has died and die of grief himself.

Anyway Lancelot left Galehaut for chivalry because he couldn't envision a world where he wasn't striving to be the best knight and it took his entire world falling apart for him to realize he maybe had what he needed all along and ask to be buried with Galehaut in the Joyous Gard