Tristano entered the lists on the side of the King of a Hundred Knights, who was losing badly. The young knight set his lance and began to do such deeds of arms that all the people who saw him marvelled. Before his lance was broken, he had knocked eleven knights off their horses, and with his last blow he sent Sir Palamidesso to the ground, horse and all. Then he drew his sword and began to deal such great blows that no one had the courage to face him or the will to wait for him, for if they stood against him they were quickly knocked down. Thus he overcame the King of Scozia and all the knights of Inghilterra, and with his own hand put to death more than twenty-five knights.

La Tavola Ritonda