 In the Italian 15th-century romance "La Tavola Ritonda", Guinevere drops dead upon learning of her husband's fate when Lancelot rescues her from the siege by Arthur's slayer Mordred.In "Perlesvaus", it is Kay's murder of Loholt that causes Guinevere to die of anguish and she is then buried with Loholt's severed head.Alternatively, in what Arthurian scholars Geoffrey Ashe and Norris J.