Val sans retour
In Arthurian legend, the Val sans retour, also known as the Val des faux amants or the Val périlleux, is a magical domain of Morgan le Fay in the French medieval story recorded in the chivalric romance prose cycle Lancelot-Grail. The legend is associated with an area of that same name, located in northern French Paimpont forest.Legend
In the Arthurian prose romance Lancelot, a part of the 13th-century Vulgate Cycle, the Val is an enchanted land in which Morgane, the fairy sister of King Arthur, imprisons her unfaithful lover and then many more knights who have been untrue to their ladies. Her spell was eventually broken by Lancelot, who has always been loyal to Guinevere, who freed all the knights but was then himself captured by Morgane for the first time. The earliest mention of the Val, and of its association with Morgan, is found in the 12th-century Erec and Enide.The Val sans retour has been identified with an area of the same name near the village of Tréhorenteuc in Brittany, France, which tradition has long held to be the site of the enchanted forest of Brocéliande. Its local legend is the same as the tale from the Vulgate Lancelot.
