{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart226.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart226.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart226.htm","text":"CHAPTER XXXIII\nHow Sir Tristram smote down Sir Palomides, and how he\njousted with King Arthur, and other feats.\nSO the King of Northgalis and the King with the Hundred Knights,\nthey two encountered with King Carados and with the King of\nIreland; and there the King with the Hundred Knights smote down\nKing Carados, and the King of Northgalis smote down the King of\nIreland. With that came in Sir Palomides, and when he came he\nmade great work, for by his indented <410>shield he was well\nknown. So came in King Arthur, and did great deeds of arms\ntogether, and put the King of Northgalis and the King with the\nHundred Knights to the worse. With this came in Sir Tristram\nwith his black shield, and anon he jousted with Sir Palomides,\nand there by fine force Sir Tristram smote Sir Palomides over his\nhorse's croup. Then King Arthur cried: Knight with the Black\nShield, make thee ready to me, and in the same wise Sir Tristram\nsmote King Arthur. And then by force of King Arthur's knights\nthe King and Sir Palomides were horsed again. Then King Arthur\nwith a great eager heart he gat a spear in his hand, and there\nupon the one side he smote Sir Tristram over his horse. Then\nfoot-hot Sir Palomides came upon Sir Tristram, as he was upon\nfoot, to have overridden him. Then Sir Tristram was ware of him,\nand there he stooped aside, and with great ire he gat him by the\narm, and pulled him down from his horse. Then Sir Palomides\nlightly arose, and then they dashed together mightily with their\nswords; and many kings, queens, and lords, stood and beheld them.\nAnd at the last Sir Tristram smote Sir Palomides upon the helm\nthree mighty strokes, and at every stroke that he gave him he\nsaid: This for Sir Tristram's sake. With that Sir Palomides\nfell to the earth grovelling.\nThen came the King with the Hundred Knights, and brought Sir\nTristram an horse, and so was he horsed again. By then was Sir\nPalomides horsed, and with great ire he jousted upon Sir Tristram\nwith his spear as it was in the rest, and gave him a great dash\nwith his sword. Then Sir Tristram avoided his spear, and gat him\nby the neck with his both hands, and pulled him clean out of his\nsaddle, and so he bare him afore him the length of ten spears,\nand then in the presence of them all he let him fall at his\nadventure. Then Sir Tristram was ware of King Arthur with a\nnaked sword in his hand, and with his spear Sir Tristram ran upon\nKing Arthur; and then King Arthur boldly abode him and with his\nsword he smote a-two his spear, and therewithal Sir Tristram\nstonied; and so King Arthur gave him three or four <411>strokes\nor he might get out his sword, and at the last Sir Tristram drew\nhis sword and [either] assailed other passing hard. With that\nthe great press departed [them]. Then Sir Tristram rode here and\nthere and did his great pain, that eleven of the good knights of\nthe blood of King Ban, that was of Sir Launcelot's kin, that day\nSir Tristram smote down; that all the estates marvelled of his\ngreat deeds and all cried upon the Knight with the Black Shield.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IX CHAPTER XXXIII","type":"page"}