Sansloy is one of three brothers in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. (with the other two being Sansfoy and Sansjoy).
He is described as a Saracen, or a Muslim, and his name means “without law” or “lawless”.
Throughout the first book of The Faerie Queene, he shows up a number of times and tries to abduct Una. Thankfully, he is driven off by satyrs and Satyrane. We would later see him again in book 2 where he is the lover of Perissa.
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Bibliography
- Norris Lacy, Geoffrey Ashe, Debra Mancoff – The Arthurian Handbook (Second Edition)
- Alan Lupack – The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
- Ronan Coghlan – The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends
- Anonymous – Lancelot-Grail, the French Vulgate
- Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur
See also my ever-expanding list of primary and secondary sources.
