She also directed that her body should be laid in state on a barge, and sent in charge of a mute boatman to Camelot, where she was sure she would receive a suitable burial from the hands of Lancelot.
In the meanwhile the hero of the tournament had been sought everywhere by Gawain, who was the bearer of the diamond won at such a cost.

Coming to Astolat before Lancelot was cured, Gawain had learned the name of the victor, which he immediately proclaimed to Guinevere.

The queen, however, hearing a vague rumor that Lancelot had worn the colors of the maiden of Astolat, and was about to marry her, grew so jealous that when Lancelot reappeared at court she received him very coldly, and carelessly flung his present (a necklace studded with the diamonds he had won at various tournaments) into the river flowing beneath the castle walls.
"She seized, And, thro' the casement standing wide for heat, Flung them, and down they flash'd, and smote the stream.
Then from the smitten surface flash'd, as it were, Diamonds to meet them, and they passed away." TENNYSON, _Lancelot and Elaine_.
[Illustration: ELAINE--Rosenthal.] [Sidenote: The funeral barge.] As he leaned out of the window to trace them in their fall, Lancelot saw a barge slowly drifting down the stream.

Its peculiar appearance attracted his attention, and as it passed close by him he saw that it bore a corpse.

A moment later he had recognized the features of the dead Elaine.