{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart021.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart021.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart021.htm","text":"CHAPTER XXII\nHow Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight\nTHOU art full young and tender of age, said Arthur, for to take\nso high an order on thee. Sir, said Griflet, I beseech you make\nme knight. Sir, said Merlin, it were great pity to lose Griflet,\nfor he will be a passing good man when he is of age, abiding with\nyou the term of his life. And if he adventure his body with\nyonder knight at the fountain, it is in great peril if ever he\ncome again, for he is one of the best knights of the world, and\nthe strongest man of arms. Well, said Arthur. So at the desire\nof Griflet the king made him knight. Now, said Arthur unto Sir\nGriflet, sith I have made you knight thou must give me a gift.\nWhat ye will, said Griflet. Thou shalt promise me by the faith\nof thy body, when thou hast jousted with the knight at the\nfountain, whether it fall ye be on foot or on horseback, that\nright so ye shall come again unto me without making any more\ndebate. I will promise you, said Griflet, as you desire. Then\ntook Griflet his horse in great haste, and dressed his shield and\ntook a spear in his hand, and so he rode a great wallop till he\ncame to the fountain, and thereby he saw a rich pavilion, and\nthereby under a cloth stood a fair horse well saddled and\nbridled, and on a tree a shield of divers colours and a great\nspear. Then Griflet smote on the shield with the butt of his\nspear, that the shield fell down to the ground. With that the\nknight came out of the pavilion, and said, Fair knight, why smote\nye down my shield? For I will joust with you, said Griflet. It\nis better ye do not, said the knight, for ye are but young, and\nlate made knight, and your might is nothing to mine. As for\nthat, said Griflet, I will joust with you. That is me loath,\nsaid the knight, but sith I must needs, I will dress me thereto.\nOf whence be ye? said the knight. Sir, I am of Arthur's court.\nSo the two knights ran <41>together that Griflet's spear all to-\nshivered; and there withal he smote Griflet through the shield\nand the left side, and brake the spear that the truncheon stuck\nin his body, that horse and knight fell down.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK I CHAPTER XXII","type":"page"}