Both Uses of
Knights of the Round Table
in
Don Quixote
- Well, then, in the time of this good king that famous order of chivalry of the Knights of the Round Table was instituted, and the amour of Don Lancelot of the Lake with the Queen Guinevere occurred, precisely as is there related, the go-between and confidante therein being the highly honourable dame Quintanona, whence came that ballad so well known and widely spread in our Spain—†
Chpt 1.13-14 *
- I am, I say again, he who is to revive the Knights of the Round Table, the Twelve of France and the Nine Worthies;†
Chpt 1.19-20
Definitions:
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(1)
(Knights of the Round Table) mythological honorable knights who served King Arthur and sat with him at the round table (made round so they could sit as equals with no head or foot to the table as would exist at a table of traditional rectangular shape)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus