This author’s story “The Cock and the Fox” is one of the earliest extant versions of the Reynard the Fox story, and inspired Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Nun’s Priest’s Tale.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this medieval author of 102 extant fables. This author is better known for her lais (“lays”), many of which were inspired by Arthurian legend.
ANSWER: Marie de France [prompt on de France]
[10e] Marie de France’s contemporary Chrétien de Troyes wrote a poem titled for this knight and subtitled The Knight of the Cart. That poem was the first to feature this knight’s secret affair with Arthur’s wife Guinevere.
ANSWER: Lancelot
[10h] In a Breton lai by Marie de France, the title character, who is named for one of these objects, is romantic rivals for the knight Gudrun with another woman named for these objects. One of these objects is used by Tristan to signal a rendezvous with Iseult in Marie’s lai “Chevrefoil.”
ANSWER: tree [accept ash tree; accept hazel tree; accept tree branch; accept “Le Fresne”; accept “La Coudre”]
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