quests and questions #sol18 Day 24

Yet again no idea where I am going. So I'll ramble until something emerges, going Pantser one better. The strategy has a distinguished history older than free-writing.

Scenes from Perceval, from a Medieval illumination
(c. 1330) by Anonymous, Public Domain

I refer to a trope associated with the Arthurian cycle, one of many Cervantes parodies in Don Quixote