ferdelance (fĕr´dəlăns´), highly poisonous snake, Bothrops atrox, found in tropical South America 1 and the West Indies 2 A pit viper 3, related to the bushmaster and the rattlesnake, it has heatsensitive organs on the head for detecting its warmblooded preyHe was the lover of Arthur's queen, Guinevere, and was the father of the pure knight Sir Galahad Lancelot and Guinevere, illustration by NC Wyeth, for The Boy's King Arthur Sir Thomas Malory'sIn Chrétien's Erec (ca 1165), Lancelot is said to be the third best knight after Gawain and Erec, but in Chrétien's Lancelot (), Lancelot becomes the central figure and the lover of Guinevere who is willing to take any risk or to suffer any indignity in service of the queen According to both Chrétien and Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, that Lancelot was raised by a fairy
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