Le Morte Darthur, Chapter 153 summary
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In Chapter 153, a lady imprisons King Meliodas through enchantment, and his pregnant wife Elizabeth enters the forest to find him. She gives birth there and dies without proper help, asking that her son receive the name Tristram to mark the sorrow of his birth.
What happens
- King Meliodas and Elizabeth love each other and rejoice as the birth of their child approaches.
- A lady who cannot win Meliodas’s love enchants his hunt and captures him in an old castle.
- Elizabeth takes a gentlewoman into the forest to search for her missing husband.
- Elizabeth gives birth with the gentlewoman’s help, but cold and inadequate care leave her dying.
- She asks that her son be named Tristram because of his sorrowful birth, then dies.
- The gentlewoman shelters the body and wraps the baby; arriving barons assume that Meliodas is also dead.
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What to notice
Elizabeth connects her suffering with her newborn son. Her final encounter with him leads to her request for a name that records his sorrowful birth.
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Why does Elizabeth ask that her son be named Tristram?
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