11 Facts About Dinadan

Sir Dinadan is a Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend's chivalric romance tradition, appearing in the Prose Tristan and its adaptations, including a part of Le Morte d'Arthur.

Best known for his humor and pragmatism, Dinadan is a close friend of the protagonist Tristan.

Dinadan is the son of Brunor senior, a brother of his fellow Round Table knights Breunor le Noir and Daniel.

Unlike most other knights in Arthurian romance, the practically-minded Dinadan prefers to avoid fights and considers courtly love a waste of time, though he is a brave fighter when he needs to be.

Dinadan appears in some other romances, such as in Escanor, where his strong distrust of women is a theme of comedy, and in some variants of Les Propheties de Merlin.

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Malory's Dinadan is well known for his cynical humor and joking nature, and for his mockery of chivalry.

Dinadan is visiting the court of Cornwall seeking his friend, the young hero Tristan, and has supper with the young Queen Iseult where he reveals that he has, by his own desire, no lady-love or paramour in whose name to do great deeds.

Dinadan is often portrayed as the wittiest of all of Arthur's knights, and a source and target of practical jokes.

In Le Morte d'Arthur, following the Prose Tristan narrative, Dinadan dies when he returns from Cornwall, hoping to persuade King Arthur to reverse his ruling which had again set Mark on the throne.

Hector de Maris finds Dinadan mortally wounded and takes him to Camelot, where he dies in Lancelot's arms.

The only time Dinadan does fall in love with a woman is his brief affair with the evil Losanna of the Ancient Tower, which even causes him to turn against Tristan who fights to save Losanna's rival Tessina.