Commentary: Annotations, f-2-93-2

Froissart describes Lancelot de Lorris as the epitome of a chivalric knight: he was young, handsome and a courtly lover, and had, as mentioned earlier, challenged John Copeland to single combat for the love of his lady. It is possible that Froissart wanted to bring some of the 'glamour' of romance tradition to this story of an otherwise unremarkable skirmish in the woods (the woods being a characteristically romantic as well as perilous locus in literary texts).

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