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
Germanic hero historical era with which the Germanic heroes of the literature are associated in legend is called the Germanic Heroic Age. Among the famous Germanic heroes are the eponymous protagonist of "Beowulf", an Old English epic, and the eponym of "Waltharius", a Medieval Latin epic. Germanic hero A Germanic hero is the protagonist of certain works of early medieval literature mostly in Germanic languages. This hero is always a warrior, concerned both with his reputation and fame, and with his political responsibilities. The way in which he "copes with the blows of fate" is extremely important. He may be distinguished from