Arthur vs pellinore fast

The king said he would not do that for anything. Then
the knight attacked and gave him a great blow on his
shield, so that he struck off a cantle. The king didn’t wait
but gave him on the helmet as hard a blow as he could
bring down, so that the knight was hard put to sustain the
blow. But he was strong and experienced at this job and
knew how to skirmish, and he pushed the king so hard with
his sharp sword that, before this first encounter was over,
the king had two wounds in his body, with the lesser of
which another man would have considered himself
mortally wounded. He had lost much blood, for the
knight’s sword [192] was very strong. The king, who was
endowed with great courage and boldness, forced himself
and suffered the knight to strike him hard and fast, but he
was not so slow that he had not reached the knight in
several places, for he had given him many wounds, small
and large.
This went on in that way until both were tired. It had
helped the king considerably that he was much lighter and
faster than the knight, for he had yet neither beard nor
moustache but was a young boy. If he had been as well
armed with sword and everything as the knight was, my lord
Robert de Boron, who is putting this story in writing, says
frankly that in the long run the king could well have had
the better of the battle, if he had not lost so much blood.
This was the thing that had slowed him down somewhat
and taken away a large part of his strength and power.
After the first encounter, when they had rested a little,
the knight called the king back to battle. The king attacked
vigorously, but he would have done so much sooner had it
not been for the abundance of blood he had lost. So it
happened with that blow that the king raised his sword to
strike the knight, and the knight did the same to strike the
king, if he could, and as the swords came against each
other and the blades met, the worse had necessarily to fail
and break. And because the knight’s sword was better and
harder, he cut the king’s sword clean through just below
the hilt, [193] so that the blade fell to the ground and the
guard remained in the king’s hand.

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