![]() ![]() Following this, King Pellinore arrives and tilts against Grunmore Grummerson, a knight in the service of Ector. Later, they practice jousting and Wart bemoans the fact that he will never become a knight. They transform into different forms and Merlyn is nearly defeated but narrowly wins by becoming a germ of disease. Merlyn challenges Madame Mim to a magical duel. They are able to escape with the help of a talking goat and the eventual arrival of Merlyn. The witch, Madam Mim, traps them in her home. They encounter a crow and realize they are in proximity to a witch's cottage. Following this, Kay and Wart go bowhunting in the woods and kill some rabbits. In the first of these, he transforms him into a perch and they swim in the castle's moat, encountering a fearsome pike. Merlyn becomes a tutor to both Wart and Kay, and immediately dislikes Kay's petulant behavior and favors Wart.Īs these lessons begin, Merlyn gives Wart the opportunity to have some magical adventures. He is nearly hit with an arrow and encounters King Pellinore, a hunter and nobleman, searching for a mythical creature called the "Questing Beast." Later, Wart finds the falcon and encounters a wizard named Merlyn and his owl Archimedes, both of whom agree to travel back to the castle with him. Wart travels to the woods in an attempt to find Kay's bird. He goes falconing with Kay who is shown to be impatient and carelessly lets his falcon get lost after failing to catch a rabbit. He is in training to eventually become Kay's squire. They are educated in hawking, jousting, and various other activities together, but Wart's unknown parentage gives him a lower class status. Told in an episodic structure, The Sword in the Stone starts with the story of Wart and his companion Kay, the son of local nobleman Sir Ector.
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