Eliot
Role: harper · First appears: Book X, Chapter XXVII
Life events
- Sir Dinadan teaches his lay to Eliot, an appointed harper.(Book X, Chapter XXVII)
- With: Sir Dinadan
- “So anon he went and made it, and taught it an harper that hight Eliot.”
- Harpers carry and sing Sir Dinadan’s mocking lay throughout Wales and Cornwall.(Book X, Chapter XXVII · 📍 Wales)
- With: Sir Dinadan
- “the harpers went straight into Wales, and into Cornwall, to sing the lay that Sir Dinadan made by King Mark”
- Eliot sang Dinadan's insulting lay before King Mark under Tristram's protection.(Book X, Chapter XXXI)
- With: Sir Tristram Sir Dinadan King Mark
- “Then at the meat came in Eliot the harper, and because he was a curious harper men heard him sing the same lay that Dinadan had made, the which spake the most villainy by King Mark of his treason that ever man heard.”
- King Mark spared Eliot because he was a minstrel but ordered him to leave immediately.(Book X, Chapter XXXI)
- With: King Mark
- “Thou sayest well, said King Mark, and because thou art a minstrel thou shalt go quit, but I charge thee hie thee fast out of my sight.”
- Sir Tristram conducted Eliot out of the country.(Book X, Chapter XXXI)
- With: Sir Tristram
- “And so he let conduct the harper out of the country.”
Book X, Chapter XXVII
- with Sir Dinadan (Dinadan taught Eliot the lay.) “So anon he went and made it, and taught it an harper that hight Eliot”
- mentor: Sir Dinadan “So anon he went and made it, and taught it an harper that hight Eliot.”
Book X, Chapter XXXI
- with Sir Dinadan (Dinadan commissioned or instructed Eliot to sing his lay.) “And sir, wit ye well that Sir Dinadan, a knight of the Table Round, made this song, and made me to sing it afore you.”
- with Sir Tristram (Tristram offered to protect or vouch for Eliot.) “Yea, on my peril, said Sir Tristram, for I shall be thy warrant.”
- with King Mark (Mark dismissed and expelled Eliot.) “Thou sayest well, said King Mark, and because thou art a minstrel thou shalt go quit, but I charge thee hie thee fast out of my sight.”
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