Nestling

Also known as: dead nestling / maiden babe · Role: infant rescued by Lancelot · First appears: The Last Tournament 1

Life events

• Arthur rescues Nestling from an eagle’s nest and gives her to the Queen to rear.(The Last Tournament 1)
  • With: Arthur
  • “Scaling, Sir Lancelot from the perilous nest, This ruby necklace thrice around her neck, And all unscarred from beak or talon, brought A maiden babe; which Arthur pitying took, Then gave it to his Queen to rear”
• Nestling dies after being reared by the Queen.(The Last Tournament 1)
  • “till that young life Being smitten in mid heaven with mortal cold Past from her”

The Last Tournament 1

• with Lancelot (interaction) “Scaling, Sir Lancelot from the perilous nest, This ruby necklace thrice around her neck, And all unscarred from beak or talon, brought A maiden babe;”
• with Arthur (Arthur takes the rescued infant and gives it to the Queen to rear.) “A maiden babe; which Arthur pitying took, Then gave it to his Queen to rear:”

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