Back in Cornwall, Tristram isn’t doing so well himself. While he talked a good game, Tristram’s joust with Marhaus has left him bleeding from several substantial wounds, including a nasty spear-wound in his side that Marhaus opened up the fight … Continue reading →
Sir Marhaus sees Tristram coming at him, and steps back. “Hey there, kid, you’re Melodias’s son Tristram, right? You’re plainly very brave, which is a shame, since I’m a remarkably badass knight. I mean, I’ve fought plenty in my … Continue reading →
Sir Tristram goes to his father and asks for permission to fight Marhaus. “You know he’s a Knight of the Round Table, and one of the best fighters in this novel, right?” asks Meliodas. “Yeah, whatever. I think I can … Continue reading →
Young Tristram leaves Liones and Cornwall at this point, and goes to France, with his tutor Gouvernail. In France he learns how to speak French and how to play the harp. Tristram is the best harpist of his generation, you … Continue reading →
“Hey Yuffie!” Launcelot shouts. “I killed Turquine, so, we can go do that other thing you wanted to do! Am I going to need a horse?” Yuffie rides up and reminds him about Gaheris and the sixty-four other prisoners. “Right, … Continue reading →
Trixie shows up at the rendezvous point, as promised, and she’s tanned and cheerful and totally ignores Gawaine, just burns him, ice, man, she’s ice. But Uwaine and Marhaus and the other damosels discuss their adventures, and Trixie tells the … Continue reading →
So Uwaine has a big meal and a good night’s sleep, and in the morning he goes to church and has some breakfast and then he emerges from the Lady of the Rock’s castle, to joust with Edward and Hue. … Continue reading →
Blah blah blah, Marhaus jousts the Duke of the Southern Marches and his six sons, and Malory describes it in some detail but screw that. Long story short, Marhaus ends the fight without a scratch on him, all of his … Continue reading →
So now we turn away from Sir Gawaine, that little prick, and to Sir Marhaus, last seen hooking up with a friendly thirty-year-old woman and going off in a different direction on a strange adventure of his own. Marhaus’s adventure … Continue reading →
Anyway, Gawaine and Uwaine stay with Marhaus for a week, and then they’re going to ride off, and Marhaus says listen, I’ll come with you part of the way and we’ll go into the Forest of Arroy. “Everybody has strange … Continue reading →
