Ettard

Also known as: Lady Ettard · Family: unknown · Role: lady · First appears: Book IV, Chapter XX

Life events

Ettard chooses the dwarf over the knight and leaves with him.(Book IV, Chapter XX)
- “And when she was set between them both, she left the knight and went to the dwarf, and the dwarf took her and went his way singing, and the knight went his way with great mourning.”
Sir Pelleas wins the jousts and gives the circlet of gold to Ettard as the fairest lady.(Book IV, Chapter XX)
- With: Sir Pelleas
- “And this knight Sir Pelleas was the best knight that was there, and there were five hundred knights, but there was never man that ever Sir Pelleas met withal but he struck him down, or else from his horse; and every day of three days he struck down twenty knights, therefore they gave him the prize, and forthwithal he went thereas the Lady Ettard was, and gave her the circlet, and said openly she was the fairest lady that there was”

courtship with Sir Pelleas “his name hight Sir Pelleas, and he loveth a great lady in this country and her name is Ettard.”
admirer: Sir Pelleas “and his name hight Sir Pelleas, and he loveth a great lady in this country and her name is Ettard.”

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