159:

The Emperor is now in France (where Arthur is). Arthur needs to help his people in the low countries, He sends a message to the Emperor to go home or prepare to fight.

158:

Giant is dead, they put its head on a spear. Arthur distributes the treasure to his men and does not keep it for himself.

157:

Arthur fights the giant, cuts his genitals off (punishment for the rape) and cuts his guts out (punishment for gluttony / cannibalism) “Than the gloton gloored and grevid full foule.”

156:

The giant has killed the duchess (raped her to death) and now wants Gwenyvere. Arthur sees the giant eating part of a man.

155:

The giant has treasure (of course). The giant is raping women and eating children. They ride to Seynte Mychaels Mounte and meet an old lady who is at a grave. This is the cult of St. Michael and the place is the famous and beautiful Mont Saint-Michel in France.

154:

Arthur lands at Normandy. There is a giant that needs to be taken care of who has kidnapped a duchess.

153:

Arthur departs from Sandwich. Arthur has a dream of a dragon and asks for his dream to be interpreterted, and it turns out to be a good sign. Dragon = Arthur/England. Arthur IS England, Arthur IS the dragon.

152:

Arthur heads out to fights, leaves Sir Cadore and SIr Baudwen in charge till he returns.

151:

The emperor calls upon all his allies. The invasion begins and Lucius begins taking back some of the lands Arthur had gained control of. THe emperor is not just using regular knights, but Muslims, too.

149-150:

The emperor gets the message that war is on. The messengers add that Arthur WILL attack and that he wants to be the new emperor.

148:

Everyone hates Rome and the vote is carried to go to war with the Emperor.

147:

Arthur asks for council – which is important to see here how he includes everyone in decision making, but this also forces everyone to go along with the majority and not buck the trends so it has a self-policing. peer-pressure aspect to it, too.) Anyway, everyone is FOR WAR!

146:

If Arthur does not pay there will be war. Arthur also has to promise to protect the messenger’s lives on their return journey to the emperor because he’s a good king. By the way, Arthur is not about to pay Lucius tribute, especially since he believes he’s as powerful (and descended) from the great emperors of Rome (as a lot of rulers used to think – and still might in the 21st century)

145:

Ah, the worst book in the whole Mort. This was an experimental book on Malory’s part because he kept the original alliteration from the sources and it reads … awful. This whole book is a slog to get through. Anyway, enter Lancelot and Trystams, and enter a messenger from the Emperor Lucius (in Rome) who wants tribute from Arthur.

142-143:

Uwayne also needs 6 months to recover from his wounds, but the 12 months are soon up, all three (Gawayne, Uwayne, and Marhaute) all meet back up, but it’s Gawayne who failed while the other 2 succeeded. Pelleas and Marhaute are made knights of the round table by Arthur.

141:

Uwayne gets these 2 (brothers) to stop extorting the Lady of the Roche by fighting them (is there any other way?)

140:

Marhaute (still with the 30 year old damesell) frees all the prisoners of the giants (giants serve as monsters that are “enclosures” in that they always take prisoners and freedom away from people. There’s a greed element here, too). After all the fighting, Marhaute needs 6 months to recover from his wounds, Uwayne and his 60 year old beats 30 knights at tourney, meets 2 knights who are extorting a castle.

139:

Marhaute defeats 40 knights. A giant is terrorizing Fergus. He fights with the giant and so the giant flees into a lake and drowns.

138:

Marhaute fights the Duke, knocks him down, the sons yield and pledge loyalty to Arthur. This is, after all, part of the point of the adventures, to bring the kingdom under control and Arthur’s knights are enforcing Arthur’s rule.

137:

Marhaute finds himself at a castle with no love for King Arthur and his knights because Gawayne had killed the duke (Duke of Southe Marchis) of the castle’s 7th son.

136:

Lady of the Lake enchants Ettrade to now love Pelleas, but he now hates her and so she is punished for sleeping with Gawayne and for treating a knight (Pelleas) so poorly. Ettrade dies.

135:

Pelleas wants to die and leaves his sword between Ettarde and Gawayne. When they wake up she recognizes the sword and realizes she’s been tricked. The Lady of the Lake shows up (again, isn’t she convenient?)

134:

Gawayne winds up sleeping with the lady Pelleas loves. Pelleas catches them together in bed, but can’t bring himself to kill Gawayne (he won’t attack another knight of such a high order as Gawayne). Gawayne is a jerk, by the way, so the 15 year old girl was right about him.

133:

The lady is happy Pelleas is dead and is quite happy with Gawayne

132:

Gawayne’s idea to help is to tell the lady he has killed Pelleas. A deception tactic.

131:

Lady Ettarde scorns Pelleas forcing him to fight her knights every week even though he lover her, which means, as a knight, he will endure whatever at all (as we’ll see later with Gareth).

130:

This knight is Pelleas, a knight even greater than Gawayne.

129:

Gawayne thinks this knight does not want any help, the 15 year old maiden tells Gawayne it’s his duty as a knight to help the knight. A dwarf rides up and the damesell, who thinks Gawayne is not a true knight, rides off with the dwarf, much to Gawayne’s astonishment.

128:

They agree to all meet back up in a year. Gawayne comes to a fair manner, they meet a dolorous (sorrowful) knight who encounters with 10 knights who take him prisoner.

126:

We meet the three damesells aged 60, 30, and 15. Methodologically speaking this is a triad manifestation. Uwayne takes the eldest on his adventures. Marhaus takes the middle on his adventures, and Gawayne takes the youngest on his adventures.

125:

Marhaus and Gawayne are now friendly with each other after this fight. Marhaus then says those damesells they say spitting on the shield are sorceresses. We also learn that the only knights greater than Gawayne in his magical strength are” Lancelot, Trystams, Bors, Percivale, Pelleas, and Marhaus.

124:

Marhaus rides up and fights with one of these knights (who had previously took refuge in the tower). Marhaus kills the knight (and his horse). Marhaus now wants to joust Uwayne and Gawayne and so Uwayne goes first. Uwayne looses, so Gawayne has a go at it. Here we get mention of Gawayne’s great strength for 3 hours a day.

123:

Gawayne sees 12 damesells + 2 knights spitting on a white shield or Sir Marhaus. Gawayne sees this as disrespectful and gets ready to do something about it.

122:

Morgan has a gift for Arthur: a poisoned mantel (think Euripides Madea), but the lady of the lake warns Arthur and so he is saved. Uryence is charged by Arthur to get that wife of his, Morgan (Arthur’s sister) in line.

121:

The knight who was to be drowned now is in the position to drown his captor. Arthur returns to Camelot.

120:

Morgan tosses the scabbard into the lake, then she turns herself into stone to hide from Arthur (magical shape-shifting). Afterwords, she comes upon a knight who is to be drowned.

119:

Morgan rides out to meet Arthur, steals the magical scabbard, Arthur gives chase.

117:

Accolon dies from his wounds, Morgan plots her husband’s death. Husband = Uryence, son = Uwaynee.

116:

Arthur shows mercy, condemns Damas, but does not kill him rather tells him to never to interfere with knights on their adventures.

115:

Arthur swears revenge on Morgan. He also doesn’t really trust Accalon, either, but he does show him mercy.

114:

Accalon and Arthur discover whom the other is and they stop fighting.

113:

Accalon is nearly able to defeat Arthur, when Nynive takes “grere peté” and Accalon loses Excalibur and Arthur retrieves it and so now he has the upper hand in the battle.

112:

Arthur is losing the battle (to his own sword, nonetheless). He’s also wounded which is not supposed to happen with his magical scabbard. Arthur fights Accalon and loses his (false) sword when it slips out of his bloody hands.

111:

Morgan gives Arthur the false sword Excalibur lookalike. But before the battle a damesell of the Lady of the Lake, Nynive, learns of the trickery, and heads to the battlefield to save Arthur.

110:

Accalon is given Excalibur (he’s now the false holder of the sword) and the sheath / scabbard. This came from Morgan le Fay through trickery. Damas tells his brother, Oughtlake to get ready for battle. Arthur is on Damas’ side and Accalon (with Excalibur) is on Oughtlake’s side. (I think I have this right?)

109:

Arthur agrees to fight for this evil Damas. It also turns out these lady’s are from Morgan le Fay, so you know they’re no good. All the knights are freed from the prison (20 total / thought it was 18 + Arthur?). Story switches to Accalon (was out hunting with Arthur) who woke up in a well and is rescued.

108:

Story of false knight Damas and his good brother, Oughtlake. Again, the theme of brother vs brother strife. Damas is so evil, no knight will fight for him so he arrests all these knights (has 18 in the prison with Arthur right now).

107:

A strange ship appears with 12 damesells aboard and they offer him a great feast. He sleeps well but wakes up in a “durke preson”. TRICKED!

106:

Bagdemagus comes upon where Merlin was turned to stone but can’t help him. Bagdemagus turns out to be a good knight an eventually joins the Round Table. Arthur goes hunting, rides his horse to death (those things are expensive!)