Idylls of the King

Noonday Sun

Also known as: the Sun · Role: knight · First appears: Gareth and Lynette 6

Life events

  • Gareth defeats Noonday Sun at the ford, forcing him to yield.(Gareth and Lynette 6 · 📍 ford)
    • With: Gareth
    • “the Sun was washed away. Then Gareth laid his lance athwart the ford; So drew him home; but he that fought no more, As being all bone-battered on the rock, Yielded;”
  • Gareth sends the yielded Noonday Sun to the King and promises to plead for him.(Gareth and Lynette 6 · 📍 ford)
    • With: Gareth
    • “Yielded; and Gareth sent him to the King, ‘Myself when I return will plead for thee.’”

Gareth and Lynette 6

  • enemies with Gareth “Here is a kitchen-knave from Arthur’s hall / Hath overthrown thy brother, and hath his arms.”
  • siblings with Morning Star “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 “Then the third brother shouted o’er the bridge, / “O brother-star, why shine ye here so low?”

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