Bors is the name of two knights in the Arthurian legend, a father and a son. Both were introduced in the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail romance prose cycle. The younger Bors has remained prominent in Le Morte d’Arthur but is not particularily popular as a character in the Arthurian modern works besides the Grail Quest-themed poetry. King Bors is the ruler of Ganis during the early period of King Arthur’s reign. His brother, King Ban of Benoic, is the father of Lancelot. Bors’ two sons, one also named Bors and the other named Lionel, are raised by the Lady of the Lake with Lancelot and become members of Arthur’s Round Table. The younger Bors, known by his epithet de Ganis, is one of the best Knights of the Round Table and, alongside Galahad and Perceval, participates in the achievement of the Holy Grail. His own son, Elyan the White, also joins the Round Table. In the Lancelot-Grail cycle, Bors eventually succeeds Arthur as the high king of the Britons after the last battle.
Appearance List Annales Cambriae (10th century); Historia Regum Britanniae (1136); Merlin by Robert de Boron (late 12th–early 13th c.); The Vulgate Lancelot (13th c.); Le Morte d’Arthur (1485) by Thomas Malory; Ballads of Bravery (1877); The Boy’s King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory’s History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Sidney Lanier (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1880); The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903) by Howard Pyle [Internet Archive]; The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (1905, 1911) by Howard Pyle [Internet Archive]; The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions (1907) by Howard Pyle [Internet Archive]; The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur (1910) by Howard Pyle [Internet Archive]; Tales of the Round Table (1908) by Andrew Lang [Internet Archive]; Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race (1910) by T. W. Rolleston [Internet Archive]; The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights (1912) [Internet Archive]; Idylls of the King (1859) by Alfred Lord Tennyson – 1913 illustrated edition: [Internet Archive]; Legends and Romances of Brittany (1917) by Lewis Spence. Film: Knights of the Round Table (1926) by Rex Ingram (silent, partially lost); Knights of the Round Table (1953) by Richard Thorpe; Lancelot and Guinevere (1963) by Cornel Wilde; The Sword in the Stone (1963) by Walt Disney Productions; Camelot (1967) by Joshua Logan; Excalibur (1981).
Description Bors is the name of two knights in the Arthurian legend, a father and a son. Both were introduced in the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail romance prose cycle. The younger Bors has remained prominent in Le Morte d’Arthur but is not particularily popular as a character in the Arthurian modern works besides the Grail Quest-themed poetry. King Bors is the ruler of Ganis during the early period of King Arthur’s reign. His brother, King Ban of Benoic, is the father of Lancelot. Bors’ two sons, one also named Bors and the other named Lionel, are raised by the Lady of the Lake with Lancelot and become members of Arthur’s Round Table. The younger Bors, known by his epithet de Ganis, is one of the best Knights of the Round Table and, alongside Galahad and Perceval, participates in the achievement of the Holy Grail. His own son, Elyan the White, also joins the Round Table. In the Lancelot-Grail cycle, Bors eventually succeeds Arthur as the high king of the Britons after the last battle.
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