Three-day’s tournament

Three-day’s tournament
A romantic literary device where the knightly champion could appear at a tournament for three successive days in different colored armour, all incognito, winning renown by his deeds of prowess rather than through his already established reputation. Such literary usages gave rise to similar formats in the medieval tournament as a festival, where different forms of combat were done on different days. See especially King René’s style of tournament. Such ‘three day’s tournaments’ were found in Cliges, Richard Coeur de Lion, and Sir Gowther.

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