"These letters say that the knight whose head lieth in this vessel was
named Lohot and he was son of King Arthur and Queen Guenievre. He had
slain on a day that is past, Logrin the Giant, by his hardiment.
Messire Kay the Seneschal was passing by there, and so found Lohot
sleeping upon Logrin, for such was his custom that he went to sleep
upon the man after that he had slain him. Messire Kay smote off
Lohot's head, and so left the head and the body on the piece of ground.
He took the head of the Giant and so bore it to the court of King
Arthur. He gave the King and Queen and all the barons of the court to
understand that he had slain him, but this did he not; rather, that he
did was to slay Lohot, according to the writing and the witness of
these letters."
When the Queen heareth these letters and this witting of her son that
came thus by his death, she falleth in a swoon on the coffer. After
that she taketh the head between her two hands, and knew well that it
was he by a scar that he had on his face when he was a child. The King
himself maketh dole thereof so sore that none may comfort him, for
before these tidings he had thought that his son was still on live and
that he was the Best Knight in the world, and when the news came to his
court that the Knight of the Golden Circlet had slain the Knight of the
Dragon, he supposed that it had been Lohot his son, for that none had
named Perceval nor Gawain nor Lancelot. And all they of the court are
right sorrowful for the death of Lohot, and Messire Kay hath departed,
and if the damsel had nor respited the day until the fortieth after the
King's return, vengeance would have been taken of Kay or ever he might
have turned him thence. For never did no man see greater dole made in
the King's court than they of the Table Round made for the youth. King
Arthur and the Queen were so stricken of sorrow that none durst call
upon them to make cheer. The damsel that brought thither the coffer
was well avenged of the shame that Messire Kay the Seneschal had done
her on a day that was past, for this thing would not have been known so
soon save it had been by her.