Garnish

Role: knight · First appears: Book II, Chapter XVII

Life events

• Garnish beheaded his beloved and the knight lying with her.(Book II, Chapter XVII)
  • “with his sword he smote off both their heads”
• Garnish killed himself by falling upon his own sword.(Book II, Chapter XVII)
  • “and therewith suddenly he rove himself on his own sword unto the hilts”

Book II, Chapter XVII

• with Balin (Balin showed Garnish his lover's falsehood in an attempt to change his attitude toward her.) “Forsooth, said Balin, I did it to this intent that it should better thy courage, and that ye might see and know her falsehood, and to cause you to leave love of such a lady; God knoweth I did none other but as I would ye did to me.”

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Extracted from the original text of Le Morte d'Arthur. Made with Rho MD.