Verse romance · 14th century (this translation 1914)
Sir Amadace
A verse rendering
Translated by Jessie L. Weston (1914)
Sir Amadace, ruined by his own open-handedness, sets out with what money is left and finds a dead man refused burial because of his debts. He spends everything to lay the corpse in the ground, and the favour is repaid when a mysterious White Knight helps him win a princess and a kingdom, on one terrible condition.
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