Morning Star

Also known as: Morning-Star / Sir Morning-Star / the Morning Star · Family: unknown · Role: warrior · First appears: Gareth and Lynette 5

Life events

Sir Morning-Star is armed with blue armor and a shield bearing the morning star.(Gareth and Lynette 5)
- “These armed him in blue arms, and gave a shield Blue also, and thereon the morning star.”
Gareth defeats Morning Star, who yields and asks him to spare his life.(Gareth and Lynette 6 · 📍 central bridge)
- With: Gareth
- “but one stroke Laid him that clove it grovelling on the ground. Then cried the fallen, ‘Take not my life: I yield.’”
Gareth spares Morning Star and sends him to Arthur’s hall to seek Arthur’s pardon.(Gareth and Lynette 6 · 📍 central bridge)
- With: Gareth
- “Knight, Thy life is thine at her command. Arise And quickly pass to Arthur’s hall, and say His kitchen-knave hath sent thee. See thou crave His pardon for thy breaking of his laws.”

with Gareth (Gareth and Sir Morning-Star are presented as opposing combatants.) “Sir Morning-Star. The King in utter scorn Of thee and thy much folly hath sent thee here His kitchen-knave: and look thou to thyself: See that he fall not on thee suddenly, And slay thee unarmed: he is not knight but knave.”
rivals with Gareth “And he that bore The star, when mounted, cried from o’er the bridge, “A kitchen-knave, and sent in scorn of me! Such fight not I, but answer scorn with scorn.”

enemies with Gareth “O morning star’ (not that tall felon there / Whom thou by sorcery or unhappiness / Or some device, hast foully overthrown)”
siblings with Noonday Sun “For there beyond a bridge of treble bow, / All in a rose-red from the west, and all / Naked it seemed, and glowing in the broad / Deep-dimpled current underneath, the knight, / That named himself the Star of Evening, stood.”
siblings with Star of Evening “For both thy younger brethren have gone down / Before this youth; and so wilt thou, Sir Star;”

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