[DeepL Translation - needs review] An early short story by Natsume Soseki, a literary scholar of the Meiji period. It was first published in "Chuo Koron" [1905 (Meiji 38)]. Like "The Shield of Illusion," published in the same year, it is a tale of a knight in the European Middle Ages. In the preface, the author declares that it is based on Mallory's "Arthurian Tales" and has been revised to be quite similar to a novel. The theme of forbidden love between Lancelot, a knight of the Round Table...
