mace. Heer is the queen of Fayërye, With harpe and pype and simphonye, Dwelling in this place." Literary motifs Sir Perceval of Galles contains a number of medieval literary motifs, with many episodes paralleled in other texts. Land of Maidens Perceval finds and marries his Lady Amour in a Land of Maidens, just as Thopas stumbles upon his Faery Queen in an enchanted forest in Chaucer's tale. In Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, in the Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones, a tournament is arranged beside a Castle of Maidens. Sir Tristram (Tristan) has recently emerged from a spell of madness, living in a forest as a derelict following emotional turmoil involving his beloved Isolde (Iseult). Similarly, in Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, Sir Yvain (Ywain) lives in the forest as a derelict after separating from his wife, as does Sir Orfeo in the narrative poem of that name, during ten years of separation from his own wife before he follows her into the Otherworld and rescues her. Disguise Like Orfeo and Yvain, and like Perceval in Sir Perceval of Galles entering the Land of Maidens wearing the Red Knight's armour and riding as though he has sprung from a stone, Tristram in Le Morte d'Arthur takes on a disguise following his life in the forest. Tristram, who has recently killed a giant, conceals his identity outside the Castle of Maidens and fights at this tournament in black arms. Many wonder who he is. At this same tournament, Lancelot, who is not a Cornish knight, wears a Cornish shield that might more properly identify Tristram. Magic ring Sir Perceval of Galles steals a ring from the finger of a sleeping lady he comes upon in a pavilion, and later learns it is a magic ring that has made him invulnerable to death. A similar ring occurs in the 14th-century Middle English romance Sir Eglamour of Artois. This ring, that protects him from death while he is wearing it, is his reward for saving the King of Sidon's daughter from the unwelcome attentions of a giant. Sir Eglamour gives the ring to his true love, Christabel, who is carrying their son. When her angry father later casts her adrift in an open boat, she and her newborn baby are safely carried – in the case of the baby by a griffin – to a new life in