Such stories can be radically different in their depictions of Guinevere and the manners of her demise. In the Italian 15th-century romance "La Tavola Ritonda", Guinevere drops dead upon learning of her husband's fate when Lancelot rescues her from the siege by Arthur's slayer Mordred. In "Perlesvaus", it is Kay's murder of Loholt that causes Guinevere to die of anguish and she is then buried in Avalon with Loholt's severed head. Alternatively, in what Arthurian scholars Geoffrey Ashe and Norris J. Lacy call one of "strange episodes" of "Ly Myreur des Histors", a romanticized historical/legendary work by Belgian author Jean d'Outremeuse, Guinevere is a wicked queen who rules with the victorious Mordred until she is killed by Lancelot, here the last of the Knights of the Round Table; her corpse is then entombed with the captured Mordred who eats it before starving to death. Layamon's "Brut" (c. 1200) features a dream sequence in which Arthur himself hacks Guinevere to pieces after beheading Mordred.