Ettarre
Family: Ettarre's land · Role: great lady · First appears: Pelleas and Ettarre 1
Life events
- Ettarre promised to love Pelleas if he won the circlet.(Pelleas and Ettarre 1 · 📍 Caerleon)
- With: Pelleas
- “‘Ay, that will I,’ she answered, and she laughed, And straitly nipt the hand, and flung it from her;”
- Ettarre took the circlet from Pelleas's lance and crowned herself.(Pelleas and Ettarre 1 · 📍 the flat field by the shore of Usk)
- With: Pelleas
- “She caught the circlet from his lance, And there before the people crowned herself:”
- Ettarre orders Pelleas bound and brought inside after he defeats her knights.(Pelleas and Ettarre 2)
- With: Pelleas
- “Bind him, and bring him in.”
- At Ettarre’s command, Pelleas is unbound and expelled from the castle.(Pelleas and Ettarre 2)
- With: Pelleas
- “Unbind him now, And thrust him out of doors; for save he be Fool to the midmost marrow of his bones, He will return no more.”
- Ettarre orders an all-out attack; Pelleas defeats the knights and is bound again.(Pelleas and Ettarre 2)
- With: Pelleas
- “Fall on him all at once, And if ye slay him I reck not: if ye fail, Give ye the slave mine order to be bound, Bind him as heretofore, and bring him in:”
- Gawain falsely reports Pelleas's death and vows to make Ettarre love the knight she loathes.(Pelleas and Ettarre 3)
- Pelleas discovers Gawain and Ettarre together in her pavilion.(Pelleas and Ettarre 3)
- Pelleas spares the sleeping pair, laying his sword across their throats instead of killing them.(Pelleas and Ettarre 3)
- Pelleas leaves Ettarre after discovering her with Gawain.(Pelleas and Ettarre 3)
- With: Pelleas
- “And forth he past, and mounting on his horse Stared at her towers”
- Ettarre comes to regard Pelleas as the one true knight and only lover, longing for him in vain.(Pelleas and Ettarre 3)
- With: Pelleas
- “And he that tells the tale Says that her ever-veering fancy turned To Pelleas, as the one true knight on earth, And only lover;”
Pelleas and Ettarre 1
- admirer: Pelleas “‘See! look at mine! but wilt thou fight for me, And win me this fine circlet, Pelleas, That I may love thee?’ Then his helpless heart Leapt, and he cried, ‘Ay! wilt thou if I win?’ ‘Ay, that will I,’ she answered”
- courtship with Pelleas “‘See! look at mine! but wilt thou fight for me, And win me this fine circlet, Pelleas, That I may love thee?’ Then his helpless heart Leapt, and he cried, ‘Ay! wilt thou if I win?’ ‘Ay, that will I,’ she answered”
Pelleas and Ettarre 2
- admirer: Pelleas “And if thou keep me in thy donjon here, Content am I so that I see thy face But once a day: for I have sworn my vows, And thou hast given thy promise, and I know That all these pains are trials of my faith, And that thyself, when thou hast seen me strained And sifted to the utmost, wilt at length Yield me thy love and know me for thy knight.”
- enemies with Pelleas “Thereon her wrath became a hate; and once, / A week beyond, while walking on the walls, / With her three knights, she pointed downward, ‘Look, / He haunts me—I cannot breathe—besieges me; / Down! strike him! put my hate into your strokes, / And drive him from my walls.’”
Pelleas and Ettarre 3
- courtship with Pelleas “And he that tells the tale Says that her ever-veering fancy turned To Pelleas, as the one true knight on earth, And only lover; and through her love her life Wasted and pined, desiring him in vain.”
- admired: Pelleas “And he that tells the tale Says that her ever-veering fancy turned To Pelleas, as the one true knight on earth, And only lover; and through her love her life Wasted and pined, desiring him in vain.”
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Extracted from the original text of Idylls of the King. Made with Rho MD.