Earl Doorm

Role: earl · First appears: Geraint and Enid 4

Life events

Earl Doorm orders Geraint carried to his hall, intending to recruit or bury him.(Geraint and Enid 4 · 📍 hall of Doorm)
- With: Geraint
- “Here, take him up, and bear him to our hall: An if he live, we will have him of our band; And if he die, why earth has earth enough To hide him.”
Earl Doorm offers Enid his earldom, but she refuses to leave her husband.(Geraint and Enid 4 · 📍 naked hall)
- With: Enid
- “For ye shall share my earldom with me, girl, And we will live like two birds in one nest”
Enid rejects Earl Doorm’s demand to eat and drink while Geraint remains apparently dead.(Geraint and Enid 4 · 📍 naked hall)
- With: Enid
- “Not so,” she cried, “by Heaven, I will not drink Till my dear lord arise and bid me do it”
Earl Doorm strikes Enid after she refuses his commands and advances.(Geraint and Enid 4 · 📍 naked hall)
- With: Enid
- “Take my salute,” unknightly with flat hand, However lightly, smote her on the cheek.”
Geraint rises and kills Earl Doorm with a single sword stroke.(Geraint and Enid 4 · 📍 naked hall)
- With: Geraint
- “Shore through the swarthy neck, and like a ball The russet-bearded head rolled on the floor. So died Earl Doorm”

admired: Enid (Doorm attempts to claim Enid as his partner.) “For ye shall share my earldom with me, girl, / And we will live like two birds in one nest,”
enemies with Geraint (Geraint kills Doorm after Doorm assaults and threatens Enid.) “So died Earl Doorm by him he counted dead.”

Extracted from the original text of Idylls of the King. Made with Rho MD.