Instead, he galloped straight into the forest. Toward the gate, which remained open, booted her flanks with imaginary spurs,Īnd was lost in the cloud of dust which his father�s horse had kicked up.Įveryone was so agitated by the bad news that none noticed him leave.ĭidn�t head for the royal palace, because he knew they wouldn�t let him join Without another thought he turned Blanca�s head Remained seated on Blanca with his mouth open. Minutes later, he galloped away to the royal palace. �Prepare my horse!� he cried to his own page, an old The king has ordered all nobles and knights to come immediately to the royalįather released the page, whose face was turning orange, and entered the castle Seized the poor princess, put her on his spiny back and fled into the forest. �Who kidnapped the princess?�ĭragon!� the page cried, quite beside himself. �Calm yourselfĪnd tell me what happened,� he said. Master, the princess has been kidnapped, come to the royal castle immediatelyīy order of the king! Oh - where is the master?�įather came out of the castle and grabbed the page by the neck. Poor princess, he thought.ĭay when Gawain was about to win a joust against an imaginary enemy in theĬourtyard of his father�s castle, one of King Arthur�s� pages came running in Impression that she would have liked to play. She always smiled at him though, and he had the With her, but she was a princess of England, and Princesses didn�t have time to Taking off his hat and making a deep, sweeping bow. His visits to the royal castle he often saw the princess, a child with longĬhestnut hair, plump and pretty, who was called Gunver. Sword of wood, with which he passed hours daily practicing mounted on Blanca, With this idea in mind he carved a lance and a Their fine armor blandishing their lances and swords, he decided to become a Gawain often went toĪrthur�s castle to watch the knights joust. Kingdom, not far from King Arthur�s imposing castle. He lived there with his family and court in one of the smallest castles of the Now we are going to tell you one of Sir Gawain�s adventures when he was aīoy, before King Arthur formed his circle of Knights of the Round Table.įather was the king of the Orkney Islands, but he had lost a war against theīarbarian invaders who devastated the North Sea islands, and found refuge in England. But Gawain was not always a knight he was also a boy His comrades Galahad, Lancelot, Perceval and Arthur himself, have been the Was Sir Gawain, whose name means �white falcon�. One of the most famous knights of King Arthur�s Round Table in Camelot

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