Kay delivered his joust, as his eyes’ measure intended, breaching a broad window through the Waleis’s shield. He paid dearly for this combat. Kay, Arthur’s seneschal, was felled by the counter-joust, thrown across the tree-trunk where the goose had escaped, so that horse and man alike suffered extremity––the man was wounded, the horse lay dead. Caught between the saddle-bow and a boulder, Kay’s right arm and left leg were broken by that fall––saddle-girth, saddle, bells all shattered by the collision.

Parzival