The Wedding of King Arthur

   This addition to the story shows the feast that celebrates the marriage of King Arthur and his new Queen, Quenevere. During this celebration King Arthur assigns three of his knights quests that pertain to things that happened during his feast. These events were a white stag ran through the feast followed by a white hound, and another is a man that rode by and forcefully abducted a woman. King Arthur decides it a good idea to fetch these items back to his court to test his knights. The three knights he chooses is the newly knighted Sir Gawain, Sir Torre, and Sir Pellinore. The first knight, Sir Gawain is sent off to retrieve the white stag. In doing so he comes across a knight who wishes to combat him. Gawain defeats this knight and the knight begs for mercy, but Gawain does not wish to show him mercy. Just as Gawain is going to strike down this man, his lover moves in front of the blade and Gawain accidentally kills her. Word spreads of this accident and when Gawain finds the white stag he is captured by four knights for what he has done. Gawain's brother Gaheris explains how this came to be and that Gawain is King Arthur's nephew, and he is released on one condition. He is forced to bring back the dead body of the woman he slew and beg forgiveness from the king and queen for what he has done. Queen Quenevere explains that since he has done this he must always fight for woman everywhere and grant mercy to any knight that may ask for it. The next knight Sir Torre is sent to retrieve the white hound. Not long after leaving Torre comes across a dwarf who explains that he must first fight two knights in order to pass onward. He does so and defeats them and grants mercy to them both, and sends them on there way to King Arthur. When Torre finds the white hound he is warned by a woman that trouble will soon follow him if he takes this hound, but Sir Torre rides on to complete the quest that he has been entrusted with. Danger soon does follow him, when a knight rides to him demanding he return the hound to his lover. They then engage in combat and Sir Torre asks if he will yield and the knight replies that he will never yield. Not soon after this does a woman come along claiming to kill this man, and that he is a false knight who killed her brother. The knight then begs for mercy and runs away, but Sir Torre pursues him and kills him. The knight then returns to Camelot with the hound, and he is proclaimed by Merlin to be a knight that will also uphold his knighthood and his rewarded by Arthur with land and honor. The final knight is Sir Pellinore on his quest to seek out the woman that was taken. When he finds her there are already two knights fighting over her, the one who took her, and the womans cousin. Sir Pellinore asks them to cease their fighting for he will be taking the woman back with him. Then the two knights propose a challenge in which Pellinore must defeat them both. Pellinore accepts and quickly kills the knight whom which took the woman. The cousin then asks mercy after seeing Pellinore's tremendous strength and asks only that he treat his cousin with honor and dignity. Sir Pellinore then sets off for Camelot, but before arriving there he hears a plot in which to take King Arthur's life, and it is spoken by one of his close knights. The following day at dawn Pellinore rides to camelot and delivers the woman and completes his quest for Arthur. This ending leaves you with questions such as who wants to kill King Arthur, and why, and will they succeed in there plot? The answers are sure to lie in the rest of the story of King Arthur And His Noble Knights.