Chapter 484: XIII

XIII How Sir Gawaine jousted and smote down Sir Lionel, and how Sir Launcelot horsed King Arthur. Then came forth Sir Gawaine from the king’s host, and he came before and proffered to joust. And Sir Lionel was a fierce knight, and lightly he encountered with Sir Gawaine; and there Sir Gawaine smote Sir Lionel through out the body, that he dashed to the earth like as he had been dead; and then Sir Ector de Maris and other more bare him into the castle. Then there began a great stour, and m…