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Diamond Jousts
(The). Jousts instituted by King Arthur, “who by that
name had named them, since a diamond was the prize.” Ere he was king,
he came by accident to a glen in Lyonnesse, where two brothers had met
in combat. Each was slain; but one had worn a crown of diamonds, which
Arthur picked up, and when he became king offered the nine diamonds as
the prize of nine several jousts, “one every year, a joust for one.”
Lancelot had won eight, and intended to present them all to the queen
“when all were won.” When the knight laid them before the queen,
Guinevere, in a fit of jealousy, flung them out of the palace window
into the river which ran below. (Idylls of the King; Elaine).
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