Joyous Gard Joyous Gard. The castle then reverts to its former name, Dolorous Gard. Later, Guinevere is restored to Arthur at Lancelot's intervention and Lancelot abandons his castle to live in France before becoming a hermit at Glastonbury, where he spends the rest of his days. On Lancelot's death, his body his taken to the Joyous Gard for burial. Malory identified the Joyous Gard with Bamburgh Castle, the northern coastal castle known to the Anglo-Saxons as "Bebbanburgh". Previously it had been the location of a fort of the Celtic Britons known as "Din Guarie". Joyous Gard The castle of Joyous Gard is
The Legend of Novgorode today. Frédéric Sauser would have written this poem in 1908, just after the death of a girl he loved when he lived in St. Petersburg, since 1905. The Legend of Novgorode "The Legend of Novgorode" was the first poem of Blaise Cendrars published in 1907. This text was considered for a long time as lost, or as a product of his author's imagination, until in 1995, a copy was discovered by chance in a Bulgar bookshop. After a raging controversy, this copy is now mostly considered as a fraud, with a very good impersonation of Cendrars' (signing at that time