Y'all missed Sir Carabad's awesome going-to-a-wedding-and-not-humiliating-himself adventure!!
This was a fun "social" adventure that mainly involved Old Home Week for many characters we had not seen in a while, like the Swine King, Mopey Giant, Sir Lamorak, the Questing Beast, Bellina the Fairy Maiden (who died bearing the son of Sir Pellandres the Proud), albino folks from the Turning Castle, the orphans raised as Pellandres' Pals (who knew nothing of Cibno's Kids), and the hated DUKE DERFEL!!! Boo! A shame to all Lindseymen!
Carabad acquitted himself pretty spectacularly (for him).
- bought last year's fashionable clothes
- bought super armor
- found super horse La Belle Furieux before a lion could eat it
- got a falcon
- got an "unusual dog"
- made Mopey Giant even more mopey
- the secret to playing a recorder like Jimi Hendrix is to put some dirt inside the mouthpiece
- told Sir Lamorak how to find the Questing Beast for sure
- challenged his arch-enemy Duke Derfel to a series of challenges, and they tied, discovering they actually had a lot in common.
PLUS, Carabad exchanged Pellandres's dead son, for Bellina's live one - bringing the changeling child out of Fairyland to live among Pellandres's household. His name is Li'l Carabad.
Oh and I guess some fairy princess married that jerk, Sir Gawaine. But who can be mad at a guy on his wedding day?