Le Morte Darthur, Chapter 226: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. The King of Northgalis and the king with the hundred knights defeat two kings before King Arthur and Sir Palamides defeat them.
2. Sir Tristram enters and unhorses Sir Palamides and King Arthur, but Arthur remounts and knocks him down from the side.
3. Palamides tries to ride down Tristram on foot; Tristram pulls him down and defeats him in a sword fight.
4. Both remount, and Tristram pulls Palamides from his saddle, carries him for ten spear lengths, and drops him.
5. Arthur cuts Tristram’s spear in two and strikes him before Tristram draws his sword and fights back.
6. The crowded fighting breaks apart, and Tristram unhorses eleven knights related to Sir Launcelot, earning the spectators’ acclaim.

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Cosa notare

Tristram repeats this challenge with each of three blows to Palamides’s helmet. It makes his identity explicit during their fierce personal contest.

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