Why, in Arthurian Myth, is Lancelot Forgiven?

Lancelot broke all of his vows as a Knight and a Christian. He betrayed his king, coveted his neighbor's wife, then lied and murdered to conceal the secret after he was caught. The fact that Agravaine and Mordred were "evil" does not change the fact that they were catching Lancelot in a wicked act.

And yet, in the most prominent Arthurian Myth retellings like L'Morte d'Arthur and The Once and Future King, Arthur always forgives Lancelot: a treasonous, murderous, arrogant Frenchman. Why does the Pope side with Lancelot in the myth and issue a Papal Bull against Arthur?

Let's not even get started with forgiving Guinevere. It's clearly unacceptable, but I figure it's down to being blinded by pussy.

What is the justification for forgiving Lancelot? Why is he considered a tragic "hero," when he is clearly a villain or anti-hero at best?

He's the perfect knight my man

Because the stories were written by frogs, and the plan was to make the brits' greatest hero the biggest, proudest and most famous cuckold in history, a plan so successful nobody else noticed until this post was written

of course with Lancelot being a frog hero and arthur the brit hero

that’s bullshit but i believe it

Y-yeah well we burnt Joan of Arc

Oh, and I forgot to add:

When Guinevere is to be rightly burned at the stake as an adulteress and traitor, Lancelot returns to "rescue" her and kills the guards -- fellow Knights and Arthur's kin. Innocent men doing their duty.

The perfect knight with no sense of honor, integrity, or oathkeeping?

So, do the French just have no honor whatsoever? Surely even the French recognize that oathbreaking and adultery are evil and sinful and Lancelot is most assuredly burning in hell (as well as Guinevere and the Pope who issued the Bull)

Lancelot *is* a French hero -- he comes from France and was added to the myth cycle by French authors. The rest is conjecture.

However, even French ideals of chivalry (which romanticized the courtship between a knight and his lord's lady), always emphasized that it was "love from afar" and never involved actual adultery. Meant to arouse love-like passion and devotion to protecting the lady, but none of the carnal aspects. Which is far from Lancelot and Guinevere, in which Lancelot is caught in Guinevere's bed, and immediately jumps to MURDER the witnesses: fellow knights of the round table.

>burning people
>ever an ok thing to do
get your head checked

Adulterers are put to death. That was the law of the land, and it was the law for the people who wrote the Arthurian myths -- yet they, and later authors, continued to portray Lancelot as a hero.

Don't be a fucking cuckold about it.

That's St. Joan of Arc to you!
>So, do the French just have no honor whatsoever?
Their national epic stuff is the Song of Roland and the rest of the Matter of France, not the Matter of Britain. They're so honourable they will go out of their way and write epic chivalric tales for other nations too!
>was added to the myth cycle by French authors
...and the first things he does is to establish himself as next to invincible, the best of the Round Table (with the only exception of Galahad who totally isn't Jesus himself, we swear), and fucking the king's wife, effects which are clearly completely unintended and accidental on the French troubadours', poets', writers' part.

arthur and lancelot were fingering eachother's bungs like six damn times a day, it's spelled out right in the text, figure it out.

you dont burn people to make a point user
is that hard for you to understand ?

I bet user here thinks he can learn things while not being on fire.

Galahad is the perfect knight.

What dumbass rock did you crawl out from under?

Yes.

Quite correct. Adulterers should be stoned to death.

You burn treasonous slime. And witches.

no that was based burgundy

BOLD

I like the little coats on the dogs

>Quite correct. Adulterers should be stoned to death.
>You burn treasonous slime. And witches.
imagine people would think like you today

As a muslim, I find this judgmental and offensive to my culture and sincerely held beliefs!

doesn't Lancelot become a monk and Guinevere a nun? pretty sure they showed heavy remorse, i.e. contrition/repentance. Arthur forgives them because they seek forgiveness and he is a good christian man. it is that Lancelot does evil, seeks forgiveness, and also does good things that he is rightly called an antihero.

>As a muslim
slice your head off and murder your children if you have any please

Lancelot does not seek forgiveness initially. He murders the witnesses. Then murders more of Arthur's family in his "rescue" of Guinevere. Then runs away to France and wages a war with Arthur there. While Arthur is called away to fight Lancelot, Mordred assumes control. It's only after Arthur returns home to fight Mordred that Lancelot repents -- AND ONLY AFTER GUINEVERE TELLS HIM SHE WON'T RUN AWAY WITH HIM.

Lancelot becoming a monk was basically the only option available to him after burning all his bridges, causing Camelot to fall, seeing most of his friends die, and Guinevere denying him.

>2018
>racist
wh*te genocide when?

Yeah I've always had a problem with that as well.

>not realizing Arthur represents the ideal man, and uses the virtue of Jesus's forgiveness

>ultimate evidence Christianity is a religion for cuckolds

Merlin is the ideal man

this

Excalibur is the ideal man

Merlin, Arthur and excalibur is the trinity you retards

im not a racist if i hate you for being a muslim you dumb cunt
muslim isnt a race
kys

wow, it's like I've stepped back into the dark ages, I'm honestly shocked that anyone - even a wh*te "person" - could hold such an archaic and racist attitude against the muslim race..

Stop same fagging you autistic russian

I'm not..
this autist just can't pick up on irony/sarcasm

>muslim isnt a race
It is when you mean sand-niggers. Because you're not referring to gook muslims or Chechens.

...

imagine the smell..

t. Reddit

t.cuckold

i dont mean sand niggers
any person be it gook white nigger sand nigger native american and whatnot who is a muslim needs to drown in the shavings of their own families and excrement

>Why is Lancelot forgiven by Christians?

not making any sense at all is what christians do user

FUCKING THOTS AMIRITE!!!!?

>Moslem race
Ftfy

>The perfect knight with no sense of honor, integrity, or oathkeeping?
Lancelot had a deep sense of those. Lust is still very powerful.

none of this makes sense to modernists

Wtf? If anything, modernists would see this as a liberated woman and her lover fighting against a stuffy, old, traditional monarch (which, in fact, is how it is sometimes portrayed). Today, oaths are given and rescinded like candy; loyalty is a commodity.

A medieval mind would be yelling out in anger at Lancelot, one should think.

modern =/= postmodern
medieval mind =/= victorian mind

What if. Arthurian myth is actually a prophecy of England's Christian history.

Arthur = the true English Christian king.
Lancelot = the French usurper (William the Conquerer and descendants)
Guinevere = the English Church (cucked by the bad monarch, Henry VIII)

to explain additionally

>liberated woman and her lover fighting against a stuffy, old, traditional monarch
this would be true if they worked within a contemporary paradigm and they didn't
what we actually have here are themes of love, loyalty, honour, mercy, feels vs duty, exactly the kind of thing you would expect

you are also making a common mistake of combining medieval/reactionary/traditional with puritanical, when in reality puritanism didn't exist until the modern ages as a reaction of an aging system maladapting to the modern age
"medieval" mind was very positive and open about sexuality, they simply had their morals and priority straight (which is why they didn't need to fear sin and amorality since they had it under control)

Because Lancelot was loyal to Arthur in all other ways, but his highest loyalty was to his queen, and his greatest love. Arthur was smart enough to understand that plunging his country into civil war over his best friend being in love with his wife would be a selfish, evil thing to do to his people and knights. He valued the peace and fellowship he had worked so hard to create very highly--more than what Gwen was bouncing on. So he stayed in denial, and tried everything to avoid confronting it. Lancelot was his greatest friend and ally in all other regards. Mordred and his young dicks were too full of pride to care about the cost of the scandal they uncovered. They valued the law above peace and life.