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Gender Masculine
Usage Arthurian Cycle
Meaning & History
One manuscript of the Prose Tristan, in departure from the others, describes Tristan’s death at the hands of a lord named Bedalis.Tristan had helped his brother-in-law, Kahedins or Ruvalen, arrange a tryst with Gargeloain, Bedalis’s wife. To avenge this disgrace, Bedalis tracked Tristan down and mortally wounded him with a poisoned lance. Afterwards, Bedalis became a pirate. He was eventually captured and executed.The romance of Palamedes alludes to the same episode. His counterpart in Eilhart von Oberge’s Tristrant is Nampetenis.