Malgrin

Also known as: Sir Malgrin · Role: dangerous knight · First appears: Book X, Chapter XXXV

Life events

• King Mark asks two sorceress queens to arrange Alisander's capture or death.(Book X, Chapter XXXV)
  • With: King Mark Morgan le Fay Queen of Northgalis Alisander Breuse Saunce Pité
  • “Then he sent unto Queen Morgan le Fay, and to the Queen of Northgalis, praying them in his letters that they two sorceresses would set all the country in fire”
• Malgrin confesses having slain twenty knights through the maiden’s love and his own pride.(Book X, Chapter XXXVI)
  • With: Alisander
  • “Wit thou well, said Malgrin, that for this maiden’s love, of this castle, I have slain ten good knights by mishap; and by outrage and orgulité of myself I have slain ten other knights.”
• Alisander defeats Malgrin in combat and beheads him.(Book X, Chapter XXXVI)
  • With: Alisander
  • “Then they lashed together fiercely, and at the last Alisander smote Malgrin to the earth. And then he raced off his helm, and smote off his head lightly.”

Book X, Chapter XXXV

• with King Mark (King Mark intends to use Malgrin in the effort to capture or kill Alisander.) “and by such that were dangerous knights, as Malgrin, Breuse Saunce Pité, that by no mean Alisander le Orphelin should escape, but either he should be taken or slain.”

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