Dodinas
Dodinas le Savage is a knight of the Round Table in Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, attested across two episodes involving Sir Tristram.
Dodinas le Savage is a knight of the Round Table in Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, attested across two episodes involving Sir Tristram. In Book VIII, Dodinas jousts with Tristram and his spear breaks in the encounter, after which Tristram strikes him "with a more might" and smites him clean over his horse's crupper, nearly breaking his neck (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book VIII, Chapter XVI). In Book X, Tristram again defeats Dodinas, this time unhorsing him through "fine force" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X, Chapter IV).
Both encounters cast Dodinas as an opponent whom Tristram decisively overcomes, serving to establish Tristram's superior prowess. In the second encounter, Dodinas and Sagramore le Desirous acknowledge Tristram's reputation directly: "well be ye found, for much worship have we heard of you" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X, Chapter IV). Dodinas thus functions as a recognizable but subordinate knight whose defeats help calibrate the hierarchy of martial skill within the text.
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Le Morte d'Arthur, British Tradition