She prides herself on always getting what she wants, so when the opportunity presents itself, she jumps at the chance to stay at a family friend s castle near Camelot. Luneta is tired of living in dull Orkney with her mother and father who happens to be the most boring knight of King Arthur’s Round Table. He learns that while minstrels sing of spectacular heroic deeds, honor is often found in simpler, quieter ways. He meets the Moorish knight Palomides, the clever but often exasperating Lady Brangienne, and an elvin musician named Sylvanus, along with an unusual collection of recreant knights and dimwitted defenders of chivalry. There Dinadan meets Sir Kai and Sir Bedivere, and the three find themselves accompanying Culloch on the worst sort of quest.Īlong the way, Dinadan writes his own ballads, singing of honor, bravery, loyalty, and courtly love and becomes a player in the pathetic love story of Tristram and Iseult. So after his father forces his knighthood upon him, he wanders toward King Arthur’s court, in the company of a misguided young Welsh lad named Culloch. But he was born to be a knight, and knights, of course, have adventures. He’d rather be a minstrel, playing his rebec and writing ballads. Young Dinadan has no wish to joust or quest or save damsels in distress or do any of the knightly things expected of him.
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