Le Morte Darthur, Chapter 399 summary

What happens

1. Bors wounds the maiden’s captor with his spear, knocks him down, and takes his horse to carry her to safety.
2. The maiden identifies her captor as her cousin and says Bors’s rescue prevents the deaths of five hundred men.
3. Twelve knights find the maiden and invite Bors to her father’s home, but he declines because he has an adventure to undertake.
4. Following horse tracks in search of Lionel, Bors meets a man in religious clothing who reports his brother’s death.
5. Bors sees a body that resembles Lionel, faints with grief, and asks the man for help finding a burial place.
6. The man leads Bors to a tower and an apparent chapel, where they place the body in a marble tomb.

What to notice

The wording distinguishes Bors’s impression from certain identification. This apparent discovery changes his search into mourning.

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