Palamedes (Arthurian legend)
Palamedes Segwarides also join the Round Table. The romance Palamedes was named after him.
Medieval literature
Palamedes first appears in the
King Mark, Palamedes rescues Iseult's servant Brangaine, joins the Round Table and engages in a number of duels with Tristan that are usually postponed or end without a clear winner. They eventually reconcile, but share a love–hate relationship
through the rest of the narrative.
Palamedes also appears in the
Esclabor was an exiled king of Babylon who traveled to Britain, where he rescued and befriended King Pellinore
.
Many tales also have Palamedes as the hunter of the
help him trap the beast in a lake, where he finally slays it.Malory has Palamedes and his brother
Queen Guinevere is exposed. The brothers eventually accompany Lancelot to France, where Palamedes is made Duke of Provence. In both the Post-Vulgate Cycle and the Prose Tristan, he is eventually killed by Gawain
.
Modern culture
- In The Witch in the Wood, Sir Palomides was tutor to the sons of King Lot.) Sir Palomides attempts to aid Pellinore in his pursuit of the Questing Beast and then assumes the quest himself. Like White's Pellinore, Sir Palomides is a broad comic character. His death at the hands of Gawain receives mention in Part Four, The Candle in the Wind.
- Palamedes is a character in the book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott.
- The story is also referenced by Aleister Crowley in The High History of the Good Sir Palamedes (published in The Equinox, volume 1, number 4, special supplement).
- Marcel Proust gave the name to a character in his In Search of Lost Time, Palamède baron de Charlus.
- In The Black Knight (1954), Sir Palamedes is played by Peter Cushing as a traitorous spy in the court of King Arthur.
- In Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, Palamedes Sextus is a highly skilled necromancer who also holds the rank of Master Warden of the Library. He is often accompanied by his cavalier and sworn sword, Camilla Hect.
References
- ISBN 978-2-02-098984-8.
External links
- Palamades at The Camelot Project