Sir Brunor le Noir is a young knight nicknamed La Cote Mal Taile by Sir Kay after his arrival in his murdered father's mangled armour and surcoat at King Arthur's court. He should not be confused with his father, also named Brunor the Black but better known as The Good Knight Without Fear. His elder brother is always Sir Dinadan, a cynical knight, and sometimes Sir Daniel, a scurrilous knight.
I think there's a little confirmation bias (?) amongst some Arthurianists with Morgan le Fay regarding her motives for villainy.
We take for granted that the popular conception of Morgan's life comes from the english-speaking world's gravitation towards Malory's telling, which hails from a specific literary strand, that in turn is a product of a particular literary development. So, there will be parts of Morgan's story don't quite line up with other takes, past and present.
For instance, the modern idea of "Morgan attacks Arthur as revenge against Uther's acts against her family" doesn't work if we consider other stories where Uther is Morgan's father (Prose Tristan and Tavola Ritonda). Or Morgan's hatred of Guinevere in stories where the Guiomar story isn't present (which it doesn't from Post-Vulgate onward).
What I'm trying to say is be wary of blending story strands under the pretense of rationalizing Morgan's characterization.
Arthur has a sister called Felice, who is also a cousin of King Ban of Benoich
the Lady of the lake (who adopts Lancelot) is Morgana’s sister
Lancelot tricks Galehaut into surrendering to Arthur
Arthur CHEATS AT CHESS
Isolde and Tristan drinks the potion and their amazing love (friendship love) gets turned into lust love… but also, Isolde’s dog drink the potion too and from that point on the little dog is inseparable from the two lovers
part 1: chapters 1 to 11
part 1: chapters 12 to 23
part 1: chapters 24 to 40
part 1: chapters 41 to 50
In these chapters, Tristan gets married with the other Iseult, meets his own lovely Isolde again and then saves Arthur from a magic lady.
How Tristan finds a new Isolde and gets a kingdom
Now that Tristan has a castle (Joyous Guard), Mark is afraid he will just move to the castle with Isolde once again, as he had once did previously. For this reason, Mark closes Isolde "safely" in his own castle and Tristan is made to leave. His wound also gets re-infected, but luckily he is welcomed in Bretagna, under Brandina's advice. In Bretagna, king Gilierchino accepts Tristan at his court and his daughter, a beautiful woman also called Isolde of the White Hands, heals Tristan. (From now on I'll call this second Isolde = Iseult).
Albroino, nephiew of Gilierchino, has been fighting against his uncle for a long time. One day he attacks the king's city and defeat the king himself, wounding his son Gheddino. Iseult finds out her father is defeated and her brother is wounded and she goes to Tristan, asking him if he is fully healed. She begs Tristan to help her and, of course, Tristan decides to take up arms again and help her. He defeats the enemy king and restores Gilierchino and his son Gheddino to power.
Later on, Gheddino and Tristan are hunting together when Tristan falls from the horse and faints. In his delirium, before he recovers, he talks about how much he loves Isolde. Ghedino, thinking Tristan is talking about her sister, waits him up and tells him that he should not suffer for Iseult and should marry his sister. Tristan is dubious... but he also hopes that Iseult of the White Hands will make him forget about his love Isolde.
The king accepts Ghedino's idea and offers Iseult to Tristan who accepts to take her as his lady (not marriage). The king also insists that Tristan accepts to become his heir and he will not accept a no for an answer.
Isolde finds out
Meanwhile, Mark hears that Tristan has a new lady, Iseult of the White Hands, and is ruling a kingdom. He immediately tells Isolde (more than happy to let her know) and Isolde pretends to be happy for Tristan, but her heart is broken. When Mark leaves, Isolde writes a letter to Tristan and asks Brandina to bring it to him. Brandina travels to Tristan and reminds him about Isolde's love.
Of course, Tristan is not really in love with Iseult of the White Hands, so he commissions a beautiful and realistical painting of Isolde so he can stares at her image. Ghedino finds out, and finally realizes that Tristan loves another Isolde. He suggests Tristan to go back to Isolde and he is also curious of meeting this beautiful woman that he sees in the picture, so they both leave to go to Isolde.
An old plot comes back
Ghedino and Tristan are travelling together when they meet a knight and Ghedino wants to try to defeat him. Unfortunately, Ghedino loses, so Tristan asks for the knight's name: he is Amorotto, the guy who sent the horn of cheating to Isolde. Angered, and finally having the change to have his vendetta, Tristan defeats Amorotto.
Meeting a damsel and saving Arthur
Travelling around, Tristan meets a damsel in a hurry who is desperately looking for Palamedes or Lancelot. Tristan offers himself and decides to help her: there is a grave danger to Arthur and if no one intervenes the king will probably die. Tristan captures a lady who apparently would end up causing great harm to Arthur, and brings her to Arthur who beheads her. Arthur then explains who this lady (Elergia) is and why she was so dangerous: Arthur was adventuring and wandering in the wild, when he met Elergia who asked for Arthur's help. She took him to her castle and gave him a ring which enchanted Arthur. Elergia made Arthur forgets about Guinevere, trapping him with her, until the lady of the lake sent the damsel who Tristan met. The damsel took the ring and freed Arthur, before leaving to find help to kill Elergia and her dangerous brothers.
Tristan decides to return to Ghedino and refuses to tell Arthur about his real name. Arthur later on meets other knights who confirm that the knight who saved him was Tristan.
Chairs!
A bit about the magic chairs in Arthur’s court: one was the Perilous Siege (a magical seat that no one can sit at, whoever sits would meet great danger and wounds, unless he was a virgin knight who then had to find the Holy Grail. That knight would be Lancelot’s son Galahad - Galasso - raised by a monastery of nuns), the second one was the royal siege (where Arthur sits), the third one (not sure if it’s third ones, plural, so it’s probably a type of sieges instead of one single siege) was the Adventurous Siege where the wandering adventurer knights sit, the fourth sieges were the minus proides, the sieges for the knights that would never start an adventure.
Memorial das Proezas da Segunda Tavola Redonda, by Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos
…[Telorique], while walking along the coast that day, saw a golden cradle floating on the water with two children inside. He immediately took them in a way that found them so beautiful that even hungry people in Hyrcana could find humanity. The royal blood from which they came was immediately visible in them. The wise man carried them in his arms to Asteria, who rejoiced as much with them as if she had given birth to them: partly consoling the loss of her natural son with the gain of her adopted children. Thus, it seemed divine providence willed it, judging by what it determined for them. Asteria raised them with as much love as if they were her own.
Telorique, conjuring a spirit of the Coluros, learned from him that Queen Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, feeling pregnant by her beloved Lancelot of the Lake, having taken refuge in the monastery of Caerleon, gave birth to a son and a daughter, from whose birth she died: the abbess ordered them to be raised secretly on an island.
...Telorique, who was already old, forced [Asteria] to take with her Pegasus, to his kingdom, also taking with her the girl Andronia of the lake: whom Asteria raised and trained as her natural daughter; and so wise and exceptional in virtue and discretion, as in beauty, that writers do not claim which one had greater, as will be seen in the continuation of this great story.
The boy named Florismarte of the Lake remained with Telorique, who raised him in noble exercises, in the manner that the Centaur Chiron raised the proud Achilles, to whom Florismarte greatly resembled in chivalry and music; but in circumstances he was more humane, being already a young man of sixteen years, of a very handsome face and gentle disposition.
(Source: The Post-Vulgate Cycle - Merlin Continuation)
(Source: Le Morte D'Arthur, by Thomas Malory )
(Source: La Tavola Ritonda)
Because, just like Modern Nerds and their favorite comic books, anime and video games, one of the things Medieval Writers love to talk about when it comes the Knights of the Round Table is their Power Levels™.
Ordinarily, I would assume this an off-hand negative reference to the Guiomar story and just more slander against our girl...
...buuut this is Tavola Ritonda.
Given this Guinevere's antics, which also includes the Pulzella Gaia fiasco, I can definitely believe she would deliberately try to muck up Arthur and Morgan's relationship.
