Palamidesse (Palomides)

I Cantari di Tristano

• attestation: A knight identified as Palmides the pagan arrives at the same location where Tristano has stopped for the night, and they camp near each other unknowingly (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "And he lay down to rest near Tristano: This was Palmidès the pagan."

• attribution: Palamidesse is described as a pagan, distinguishing his religious identity from the Christian knights (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "This was Palmidès the pagan."

• attestation: Palamidesse arrives at the same resting place as a fellow traveler, and they camp without seeing each other because the darkness has banished the light (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "But not so close that one could see the other, For the light there was banished"

• attestation: Palamidesse recalls fair Isotta with her rosy face, revealing his love for her (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "Palamidesse then recalled to mind Fair Isotta with her rosy face."

• attestation: Palamidesse left his feathers (was humiliated/defeated) in Irlanda because of Isotta (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "And he did not remember when he left His feathers behind in Irlanda on every side"

• attestation: Palamidesse accuses Tristano of taking Isotta from him, establishing the love triangle (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "Palamidesse said at that very hour: "Alas! Tristan: why have you taken Isotta from me?""

• attestation: Palamidesse threatens that if he finds Tristano, either Tristano will kill him or Tristano will trouble himself with Isotta no more (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "Either you will lay my life low, Or you will trouble yourself with Isotta no more"

• attestation: Palamidesse declares he would rather die than go on living without Isotta, showing the depth of his passion (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "I would rather die than go on living."

• attestation: Palamidesse makes his threats not knowing Tristano is lying beside him in the darkness (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "And not thinking he had Tristano beside him"

• attestation: Palamidesse swears to the most high sovereign God that Tristano shall never part from him if they meet (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "I promise it to the most high sovereign God, That you shall never part from me"

• attestation: Palamidesse responds that he has long sought Tristano and declares that either he or Tristano shall slay the other (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  ""Oh, how long I have sought you! And now you know That either I or you shall slay the other.""

• attestation: Palamidesse retaliates and wounds Tristano, declaring 'Isotta will cost one of us dearly' (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "Upon him he dealt a great blow That sent pieces of his armor to the ground, And also his blood was spilled"

• attestation: Palamidesse declares that before he loses the contest, Isotta will cost one of them dearly (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "Before I lose this contest, Isotta will cost one of us dearly."

• attestation: Palamidesse gives his hand as pledge to go to the stone for the battle (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "Palamidesse gave his hand on it, To go to the stone for the battle"

• attestation: After the truce, Palamidesse goes to have his wounds tended at the castle of Dinasso in Cornovaglia (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "Palamidesse went to have his wounds tended At the castle of Dinasso in Cornovaglia"

• attestation: Palamidesse lay wounded for more than seven days at Dinasso, in pain and utterly dismayed (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "And for more than seven days he lay wounded, In pain, utterly dismayed."

• attestation: Palamidesse laments that his wounds from Tristano prevent him from keeping his oath to fight at the stone of Merlin (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "Palamidesse said in his heart: "Alas! Tristan, I am forced to break my word; So full am I of grief and of sorrow That I shall not be able to come to the battle."

• attestation: Palamidesse acknowledges that Tristano has conquered him with great valor, leaving him without strength or courage (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "So have you conquered me with your great valor That I have neither strength nor courage."

• attestation: Palamidesse insists his failure to appear is not from fear or dread but from lack of physical power (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "I hold back not from fear or dread: I shall not come because I have no power."

• attestation: At the castle they find Palamidesse being tended for his wounds from the earlier fight with Tristano (I Cantari di Tristano > Tristano e Lancielotto al Petrone di Merlino)

  "They found Palamidesse being tended for his wounds"