Le Morte d’Arthur · Character
Dame Bragwaine
Isoud's loyal handmaiden and confidante.
minor
Also known as Bragwaine, damosel Bragwaine
First appearance: i
Dame Bragwaine shows up with force in How Sir Tristram demanded La Beale Isoud for King Mark, and how Sir Tristram and Isoud drank the love drink.. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Isoud's chief gentlewoman, entrusted with the love drink for King Mark.
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In How Sir Tristram demanded La Beale Isoud for King Mark, and how Sir Tristram and Isoud drank the love drink.: Isoud's chief gentlewoman, entrusted with the love drink for King Mark. Later, in Of the Wedding of King…
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- Central tragic figures
- Knights of endurance and folly
- Knights of conflict and loyalty
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- How Sir Tristram demanded La Beale Isoud for King Mark, and how Sir Tristram and Isoud drank the love drink.
- Of the Wedding of King Mark to La Beale Isoud
- How La Beale Isoud sent letters to Sir Tristram by her maid Bragwaine, and of divers adventures of Sir Tristram
- How Sir Tristram came to La Beale Isoud, and how Kehydius began to love Beale Isoud, and of a letter that Tristram found
- How King Mark found Sir Tristram naked, and made him to be borne home to Tintagil, and how he was there known by a brachet.
- How Damosel Bragwaine Found Tristram Sleeping by a Well
- How Sir Tristram found Palomides by a well, and brought him with him to his lodging
- How Palomides came to the castle where Sir Tristram was, and of the quest that Sir Launcelot and ten knights made for Sir Tristram
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