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Bradamante is depicted as one of the greatest female knights in literature. She is an expert fighter, and wields a magical lance that unhorses anyone it touches. She is also one of the main characters in several novels including Italo Calvino's surrealistic, highly ironic novel Il Cavaliere inesistente (The Nonexistent Knight).
Sir Chess, the Knight Destrier, in Linda Medley's Castle Waiting; Smiler, Theon Greyjoy's warhorse from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin; Smoky, from Smoky the Cow Horse, written and illustrated by Will James; Snowmane, the horse of King Théoden which falls on and mortally wounds him during battle in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R ...
Title page of an Amadís de Gaula romance of 1533. A knight-errant [1] (or knight errant [2]) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature.The adjective errant (meaning "wandering, roving") indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric virtues, either in knightly duels (pas d'armes) or in some other pursuit of courtly love.
An order of knights is a community of knights composed by order rules with the main purpose of an ideal or charitable task. The original ideal lay in monachus et miles (monk and knight), who in the order – ordo (Latin for 'order' / 'status') – is dedicated to a Christian purpose. The first orders of knights were religious orders that were ...
Cosmic Knights is an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories on the subject of knights edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh.The third volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series, it was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in January 1985.
Based on the setting of American author George R. R. Martin, as featured in his series of high fantasy novels titled A Song of Ice and Fire. The Wheel of Time: High fantasy: Wheel of Time RPG, d20 System: WotC 2001-2002 Based on an epic fantasy series by Robert Jordan. Wilderlands of High Fantasy: High fantasy: Generic D&D, D&D 3rd edition
The lance, however, was permanently stained with the pure blood of the good dragons. Vilderoff and Cinder, early on in their career, acquired the fabled lance from a fallen Solamnic Knight sometime in 352 AC, and the human knight was made a baron by Emperor Ariakas, given the Bladmere lands bordering Neraka in Taman Busak.