Tor le Fise
Tor le Fise is a knight attested in Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, identified as "Sir Tor le Fise de Vayshoure" and also referred to as "Sir Tor le Fise Aries" .
Tor le Fise is a knight attested in Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, identified as "Sir Tor le Fise de Vayshoure" and also referred to as "Sir Tor le Fise Aries" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X, Ch. IX). He appears as a jouster who encounters Sir Tristram and as the lord of a castle where travellers receive hospitality in his name.
The two attestations present complementary aspects of Tor le Fise. In one, he jousts against Tristram and is decisively unhorsed: "Sir Tor le Fise de Vayshoure encountered with Sir Tristram and there Sir Tristram smote him down" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book IX, Ch. XIV). In the other, he is absent but his reputation commands welcome at his own castle, where knights greet visitors saying they "are right welcome... for the love of the lord of this castle, the which hight Sir Tor le Fise Aries" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X, Ch. IX). The two patronymic forms -- de Vayshoure and Aries -- suggest a figure whose lineage is remembered in multiple formulations.
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Le Morte d'Arthur, British Tradition