Brasias
Sir Brasias is a hermit and former knight who appears in Le Morte d'Arthur.
Sir Brasias is a hermit and former knight who appears in Le Morte d'Arthur. He dwells in a hermitage near Windsor, described as one who "sometime was a good knight" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XVIII, Chapter II). When Queen Guenever banishes Launcelot from court, Sir Bors counsels him to ride to Brasias's hermitage and wait there: "by mine advice ye shall take your horse, and ride to the good hermitage here beside Windsor, that sometime was a good knight, his name is Sir Brasias, and there shall ye abide till I send you" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XVIII, Chapter II).
Launcelot accepts this counsel, declaring that he will "ride to the hermit Sir Brasias, and there will I repose me until I hear some manner of tidings from you" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XVIII, Chapter II), and asks Bors to reconcile him with the queen.
Both citations come from the same chapter and form a single episode. Brasias functions as a place of refuge -- his hermitage is the safe harbour to which Launcelot withdraws when the court becomes hostile. The description of Brasias as a former knight turned hermit follows a pattern common in Le Morte d'Arthur, where aging warriors retire to religious life. His role is entirely passive: he provides the location, not the counsel. The episode's significance lies in what it reveals about the court's fractures rather than about Brasias himself.
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Le Morte d'Arthur, British Tradition