{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart145.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart145.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart145.htm","text":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK VII CHAPTER XXVII\n \n Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends and Sagas\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n BOOK VII\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n CHAPTER XXVII\n \n How King Arthur went to the tournament with his knights,\n and how the lady received him worshipfully, and how\n the knights encountered.\n \n AND then there came with King Arthur Sir Gawaine, Agravaine,\n Gaheris, his brethren. And then his nephews Sir Uwaine le\n Blanchemains, and Sir Aglovale, Sir Tor, Sir Percivale de Galis,\n and Sir Lamorak de Galis. Then came Sir Launcelot du Lake with\n his brethren, nephews, and cousins, as Sir Lionel, Sir Ector de\n Maris, Sir Bors de Ganis, and Sir Galihodin, Sir Galihud, and\n many more of Sir Launcelot's blood, and Sir Dinadan, Sir La Cote\n Male Taile, his brother, a good knight, and Sir Sagramore, a good\n knight; and all the most part of the Round Table. Also there\n came with King Arthur these knights, the King of Ireland, King\n Agwisance, and the King of Scotland, King Carados and King Uriens\n of the land of Gore, and King Bagdemagus and his son Sir\n Meliaganus, and Sir Galahault the noble prince. All these kings,\n princes, and earls, barons, and other noble knights, as Sir\n Brandiles, Sir Uwaine les Avoutres, and Sir Kay, Sir Bedivere,\n Sir Meliot <260>de Logres, Sir Petipase of Winchelsea, Sir\n Godelake: all these came with King Arthur, and more that cannot\n be rehearsed.\n \n Now leave we of these kings and knights, and let us speak of the\n great array that was made within the castle and about the castle\n for both parties. The Lady Dame Lionesse ordained great array\n upon her part for her noble knights, for all manner of lodging\n and victual that came by land and by water, that there lacked\n nothing for her party, nor for the other, but there was plenty to\n be had for gold and silver for King Arthur and his knights. And\n then there came the harbingers from King Arthur for to harbour\n him, and his kings, dukes, earls, barons, and knights. And then\n Sir Gareth prayed Dame Lionesse and the Red Knight of the Red\n Launds, and Sir Persant and his brother, and Sir Gringamore, that\n in no wise there should none of them tell not his name, and make\n no more of him than of the least knight that there was, For, he\n said, I will not be known of neither more nor less, neither at\n the beginning neither at the ending. Then Dame Lionesse said\n unto Sir Gareth: Sir, I will lend you a ring, but I would pray\n you as you love me heartily let me have it again when the\n tournament is done, for that ring increaseth my beauty much more\n than it is of himself. And the virtue of my ring is that, that\n is green it will turn to red, and that is red it will turn in\n likeness to green, and that is blue it will turn to likeness of\n white, and that is white it will turn in likeness to blue, and so\n it will do of all manner of colours. Also who that beareth my\n ring shall lose no blood, and for great love I will give you this\n ring. Gramercy, said Sir Gareth, mine own lady, for this ring is\n passing meet for me, for it will turn all manner of likeness that\n I am in, and that shall cause me that I shall not be known. Then\n Sir Gringamore gave Sir Gareth a bay courser that was a passing\n good horse; also he gave him good armour and sure, and a noble\n sword that sometime Sir Gringamore's father won upon an heathen\n tyrant. And so thus every knight made him ready to that\n tournament. And King Arthur was come two days to-fore the\n <261>Assumption of our Lady. And there was all manner of royalty\n of all minstrelsy that might be found. Also there came Queen\n Guenever and the Queen of Orkney, Sir Gareth's mother.\n \n And upon the Assumption Day, when mass and matins were done,\n there were heralds with trumpets commanded to blow to the field. \n And so there came out Sir Epinogrus, the king's son of\n Northumberland, from the castle, and there encountered with him\n Sir Sagramore le Desirous, and either of them brake their spears\n to their hands. And then came in Sir Palamides out of the\n castle, and there encountered with him Gawaine, and either of\n them smote other so hard that both the good knights and their\n horses fell to the earth. And then knights of either party\n rescued their knights. And then came in Sir Safere and Sir\n Segwarides, brethren to Sir Palamides; and there encountered Sir\n Agravaine with Sir Safere and Sir Gaheris encountered with Sir\n Segwarides. So Sir Safere smote down Agravaine, Sir Gawaine's\n brother; and Sir Segwarides, Sir Safere's brother. And Sir\n Malegrine, a knight of the castle, encountered with Sir Uwaine le\n Blanchemains, and there Sir Uwaine gave Sir Malegrine a fall,\n that he had almost broke his neck.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK VII CHAPTER XXVII","type":"page"}