{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart075.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart075.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart075.htm","text":"CHAPTER XV\nHow Morgan le Fay saved a knight that should have been\ndrowned, and how King Arthur returned home again.\nTHEN said Morgan, Saw ye Arthur, my brother? Yea, said her\nknights, right well, and that ye should have found an we might\nhave stirred from one stead, for by his armyvestal countenance he\nwould have caused us to have fled. I believe you, said Morgan.\nAnon after as she rode she met a knight leading another knight on\nhis horse before him, bound hand and foot, blindfold, to have\n<125>drowned him in a fountain. When she saw this knight so\nbound, she asked him, What will ye do with that knight? Lady,\nsaid he, I will drown him. For what cause? she asked. For I\nfound him with my wife, and she shall have the same death anon.\nThat were pity, said Morgan le Fay. Now, what say ye, knight, is\nit truth that he saith of you? she said to the knight that should\nbe drowned. Nay truly, madam, he saith not right on me. Of\nwhence be ye, said Morgan le Fay, and of what country? I am of\nthe court of King Arthur, and my name is Manassen, cousin unto\nAccolon of Gaul. Ye say well, said she, and for the love of him\nye shall be delivered, and ye shall have your adversary in the\nsame case ye be in. So Manassen was loosed and the other knight\nbound. And anon Manassen unarmed him, and armed himself in his\nharness, and so mounted on horseback, and the knight afore him,\nand so threw him into the fountain and drowned him. And then he\nrode unto Morgan again, and asked if she would anything unto King\nArthur. Tell him that I rescued thee, not for the love of him\nbut for the love of Accolon, and tell him I fear him not while I\ncan make me and them that be with me in likeness of stones; and\nlet him wit I can do much more when I see my time. And so she\ndeparted into the country of Gore, and there was she richly\nreceived, and made her castles and towns passing strong, for\nalways she dreaded much King Arthur.\nWhen the king had well rested him at the abbey, he rode unto\nCamelot, and found his queen and his barons right glad of his\ncoming. And when they heard of his strange adventures as is\nafore rehearsed, then all had marvel of the falsehood of Morgan\nle Fay; many knights wished her burnt. Then came Manassen to\ncourt and told the king of his adventure. Well, said the king,\nshe is a kind sister; I shall so be avenged on her an I live,\nthat all Christendom shall speak of it. So on the morn there\ncame a damosel from Morgan to the king, and she brought with her\nthe richest mantle that ever was seen in that court, for it was\nset as full of precious stones as one might stand by another, and\nthere were the richest stones <126>that ever the king saw. And\nthe damosel said, Your sister sendeth you this mantle, and\ndesireth that ye should take this gift of her; and in what thing\nshe hath offended you, she will amend it at your own pleasure.\nWhen the king beheld this mantle it pleased him much, but he said\nbut little.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IV CHAPTER XV","type":"page"}