{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart086.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart086.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart086.htm","text":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IV CHAPTER XXVI\n \n Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends and Sagas\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n BOOK IV\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n CHAPTER XXVI\n \n How Sir Uwaine rode with the damosel of sixty year of\n age, and how he gat the prize at tourneying.\n \n NOW turn we unto Sir Uwaine, that rode westward with his damosel\n of three score winter of age, and she brought <145>him thereas\n was a tournament nigh the march of Wales. And at that tournament\n Sir Uwaine smote down thirty knights, therefore was given him the\n prize, and that was a gerfalcon, and a white steed trapped with\n cloth of gold. So then Sir Uwaine did many strange adventures by\n the means of the old damosel, and so she brought him to a lady\n that was called the Lady of the Rock, the which was much\n courteous. So there were in the country two knights that were\n brethren, and they were called two perilous knights, the one\n knight hight Sir Edward of the Red Castle, and the other Sir Hue\n of the Red Castle; and these two brethren had disherited the Lady\n of the Rock of a barony of lands by their extortion. And as this\n knight was lodged with this lady she made her complaint to him of\n these two knights.\n \n Madam, said Sir Uwaine, they are to blame, for they do against\n the high order of knighthood, and the oath that they made; and if\n it like you I will speak with them, because I am a knight of King\n Arthur's, and I will entreat them with fairness; and if they will\n not, I shall do battle with them, and in the defence of your\n right. Gramercy said the lady, and thereas I may not acquit you,\n God shall. So on the morn the two knights were sent for, that\n they should come thither to speak with the Lady of the Rock, and\n wit ye well they failed not, for they came with an hundred horse. \n But when this lady saw them in this manner so big, she would not\n suffer Sir Uwaine to go out to them upon no surety nor for no\n fair language, but she made him speak with them over a tower, but\n finally these two brethren would not be entreated, and answered\n that they would keep that they had. Well, said Sir Uwaine, then\n will I fight with one of you, and prove that ye do this lady\n wrong. That will we not, said they, for an we do battle, we two\n will fight with one knight at once, and therefore if ye will\n fight so, we will be ready at what hour ye will assign. And if\n ye win us in battle the lady shall have her lands again. Ye say\n well, said Sir Uwaine, therefore make you ready so that ye be\n here to-morn in the defence of the lady's right.\n \n \n \n <146>","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IV CHAPTER XXVI","type":"page"}