Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance (review)

of wyne” (795.8) and make sure that “all the wyndows and holys of that chambir were stopped, that no maner of day myght be seyne” (795.18–19). Thinking he is in bed with Gwenyvere, “wyte you well that sir Launcelot was glad” (795.12). It is only when he “had unshutte the wyndow” (795.21) and realizes, not what has happened, but with whom he has spent the night that he is conscious of having “done amysse” (795.21). It is not because he has committed a sexual sin that he is appalled: unwittingly he has been unfaithful to the queen. Terence McCarthy Université de Bourgogne