Knight probably influenced the like figure in Sir Cleges. The rash vow, to share everything, is also a common motifs in romance; as is common, Amadas makes it without thinking of what it will entail or setting any limits to it. This does, however, allow him to demonstrate the depths of his word's reliability. The Italian tale La novella di Messer Dianese e di Messer Gigliotto (manuscript of the second quarter of XIV Century), which follows a similar plot, has the deceased appear in the form of a rich merchant who offers to become the knight's sponsor in a tournament where vast riches are promised to the victor, in exchange for half the rewards. However, the division, in this case, is a divide and choose offer between the riches and the wife won. After the knight chooses the wife, the merchant gives him the riches as well, before revealing his identity and vanishing. References Further reading Harkins, Patricia. "The Speaking Dead in "Sir Amadace and the White Knight"." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 3, no. 3/4 (11/12) (1994): 62-71. Accessed June 18, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/43308197. External links Text in modern English Romance (genre) Middle English poems