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Updated: June 2, 2025
But when she saw Pelleas, the Lady Ettarde mocked him, and told her lords to tie him to the tail of a horse and turn him out of the castle. 'She does it to find out if I love her truly, thought Sir Pelleas again, as he struggled back to his tent below the castle.
Still even when she was unkind, Sir Pelleas was happy, for he trusted the beautiful lady, and said to himself, 'She proves me, to see if I really love her. But the Lady Ettarde knew she would never love Sir Pelleas, even if he died for her.
When the branches were in her way he pushed them aside, when the path was rough he guided her horse. In the evening when the Lady Ettarde dismounted, Pelleas was there to help her, and in the morning again it was Pelleas who brought her horse and helped her to mount.
But Sir Pelleas was wide-awake at last. He sprang to his feet, and told the Lady Ettarde that he had been dreaming, and that she had seemed to him a part of his dream. 'But I too am going to Carleon, he added, 'and I will show you the way. And as they rode through the forest Sir Pelleas was always at his lady's side.
The drawbridge was down, and the Lady Ettarde rode across it, and waiting only till her lords and ladies crossed it, ordered the bridge to be drawn up, while Pelleas was still on the other side. The knight was puzzled. Was this a test of his love too, or did the lady for whom he had won the golden circlet indeed not care for him? But that he would not believe.
'She will grow kinder if I am faithful, he thought, and he lived in a tent beneath the castle walls for many days. The Lady Ettarde heard that Pelleas still lingered near the castle, and in her anger she said, 'I will send ten of my lords to fight this knight, and then I shall never see his face again.
'You have not slain the knight who loved me, cried the Lady Ettarde, 'for he has been here, and left his sword across your throat. And then she hated Gawaine because he had told her a lie, and she drove him from her castle. And the Lady Ettarde thought of her true knight Sir Pelleas, and at last she loved him with all her heart.
When Sir Gawaine woke in the morning, he felt the cold steel, and putting up his hand, he found the sword that Sir Pelleas had left. Sir Gawaine did not know how the sword had come there, but when he told the Lady Ettarde what had happened, and showed her the sword, she knew it was the one that Sir Pelleas had won at the tournament, when he had given her the golden circlet.
'I will speak to the knight, said the Lady Ettarde, the tallest and most beautiful of all the maidens, and she left the others and went towards Pelleas. But when she told the knight that she and her lords and ladies had lost their way, and asked him to tell her how to reach Carleon, he only looked at her in silence. Was she one of the woodland nymphs?
And all the lords and ladies were asleep in their tents, and Sir Gawaine was there too. 'He has forgotten me, and will stay here always with the Lady Ettarde, muttered Sir Pelleas in scorn, and he drew the sword he had won at the tournament, to slay the false knight Sir Gawaine.
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