Sir Dinant

Family: Cornwall · Role: knight · First appears: Book IX, Chapter XIX

Life events

Sir Tristram kills Tauleas while rescuing Sir Dinant from beheading.(Book IX, Chapter XIX)
- With: Sir Tristram Tauleas
- “Then Sir Tristram was ware of the sword of the knight thereas it lay; and so thither he ran and took up the sword and struck off Sir Tauleas’ head, and so he yede his way to the herdmen.”

with Tauleas (Tauleas attacked Sir Dinant and attempted to kill him.) “And as soon as he was from his horse this giant Tauleas came betwixt this knight and his horse, and took the horse and leapt upon him. So forthwith he rode unto Sir Dinant and took him by the collar, and pulled him afore him upon his horse, and there would have stricken off his head.”
with Sir Tristram (Sir Tristram rescued Sir Dinant by killing Tauleas.) “Then the herdmen said unto Sir Tristram: Help yonder knight. Help ye him, said Sir Tristram. We dare not, said the herdmen. Then Sir Tristram was ware of the sword of the knight thereas it lay; and so thither he ran and took up the sword and struck off Sir Tauleas’ head, and so he yede his way to the herdmen.”

with Sir Tristram (Tristram rescued Dinant from Tauleas.) “Then the knight took up the giant’s head and bare it with him unto King Mark, and told him what adventure betid him in the forest, and how a naked man rescued him from the grimly giant, Tauleas.”
with Tauleas (The surrounding account identifies the forest adventure in which Sir Dinant was rescued from Tauleas.) “Forsooth, said Sir Dinant, at the fair fountain in your forest where many adventurous knights meet, and there is the mad man. Well, said King Mark, I will see that wild man.”

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