Once upon a time a young man came to Camelot in clothes as white as snow, on a horse as white as snow. All the girls looked at him and could not take their eyes off. “My name is Lancelot, I am the son of King Ban.” “In Brittany, across the sea, lie my possessions,” he told King Arthur. “But my father was killed when I was still a small child, and my mother died of grief. I was raised in the depths of the waters by the Maiden of the Lake - the fairy Nimue. Arthur looked at Lancelot and saw that his face was unfamiliar with either the sun or the wind and was as white as the clear lake water! And Arthur thought: “This young man is not like ordinary people. It’s true that he will be guarded by unprecedented happiness or unprecedented misfortune.” Lancelot of the Lake - in the legends of King Arthur and the chivalric romances based on them - the most famous of the knights of the Round Table.