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Guingamor is an anonymous medieval lai about a knight who leaves the court of his uncle, a king, because the queen has sent him off to hunt for a white boar. By offering a reward for the boar's head, she hopes to get rid of Guingamor, who has refused her sexual advances. Guingamor crosses a river and passes into a mystical kingdom. Returning with the boar's head after what seems to him like three days, he encounters a common charcoal-maker, who tells him that many years have passed since the king's faithful nephew never returned from a hunt for the white boar. Guingamor's return is triumphant and he is immortalized in a lai. The story was once presumed to have been written by Marie de France, but is now considered anonymous. However, it draws on Marie's ''Lanval'', and the anonymous ''Graelent'': ::The definitive view of these three lays, chronologically and thematically, is that of R. N. Illingworth, who concluded that they were composed in the order ''Lanval'', ''Graelend'', and ''Guingamor'', with ''Graelent'' and ''Guingamor'' (both anonymous) drawing on ''Lanval'', but ''Guingamor'' also drawing on ''Graelent''. Moreover, although the narratives were taken largely from Marie, the two anonymous lays integrated into their stories, independently of Marie, material stemming from "a nucleus of genuine Celtic tradition".〔Gynn S. Burgess, 'Marie de France and the Anonymous Lays', in ''A Companion to Marie de France'', ed. by Logan E. Whalen, Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 117-56 (p. 155).〕 ==External links== *Full English text at archive.org: (Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret; four lais rendered into English prose from the French of Marie de France and others ) by Jessie L. Weston. Illustrated by Caroline Watts. Published by London D. Nutt (1900). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guingamor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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