Pandafilando of the Scowl

Role: giant · First appears: Part 1, Ch. 30.1

Life events

• Tinacrio predicts that Pandafilando will invade and strip Dorothea’s kingdom after her father’s death.(Part 1, Ch. 30.1)
  • With: Tinacrio the Sapient
  • “when he was dead, and I saw Pandafilando about to invade my kingdom, I was not to wait and attempt to defend myself”
• Dorothea rejects marriage to Pandafilando despite the threat posed by his invasion.(Part 1, Ch. 30.1)
  • With: Dorothea
  • “it has never entered my mind to marry that giant, or any other, let him be ever so great or enormous”
• Dorothea recruits Don Quixote to slay Pandafilando and restore her usurped kingdom.(Part 1, Ch. 30.2)
  • With: Dorothea Don Quixote
  • “he has granted me the boon of accompanying me whithersoever I may conduct him, which will be only to bring him face to face with Pandafilando of the Scowl, that he may slay him and restore to me what has been unjustly usurped by him”

Part 1, Ch. 30.1

• admired: Dorothea “But all this, he declared, did not so much grieve or distress him as his certain knowledge that a prodigious giant, the lord of a great island close to our kingdom, Pandafilando of the Scowl by name—for it is averred that, though his eyes are properly placed and straight, he always looks askew as if he squinted, and this he does out of malignity, to strike fear and terror into those he looks at—that he knew, I say, that this giant on becoming aware of my orphan condition would overrun my kingdom with a mighty force and strip me of all, not leaving me even a small village to shelter me; but that I could avoid all this ruin and misfortune if I were willing to marry him; however, as far as he could see, he never expected that I would consent to a marriage so unequal; and he said no more than the truth in this, for it has never entered my mind to marry that giant, or any other, let him be ever so great or enormous.”
• enemies with Dorothea “But all this, he declared, did not so much grieve or distress him as his certain knowledge that a prodigious giant, the lord of a great island close to our kingdom, Pandafilando of the Scowl by name—for it is averred that, though his eyes are properly placed and straight, he always looks askew as if he squinted, and this he does out of malignity, to strike fear and terror into those he looks at—that he knew, I say, that this giant on becoming aware of my orphan condition would overrun my kingdom with a mighty force and strip me of all, not leaving me even a small village to shelter me; but that I could avoid all this ruin and misfortune if I were willing to marry him; however, as far as he could see, he never expected that I would consent to a marriage so unequal; and he said no more than the truth in this, for it has never entered my mind to marry that giant, or any other, let him be ever so great or enormous.”

Part 1, Ch. 30.2

• enemies with Don Quixote “I swear to go with you to the end of the world until I find myself in the presence of your fierce enemy, whose haughty head I trust by the aid of my arm to cut off”
• enemies with Dorothea “that he may slay him and restore to me what has been unjustly usurped by him”

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Extracted from the original text of Don Quixote (Ormsby's translation). Made with Rho MD.