The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
core novel 2003 The Squire's Tales
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.13 (2,593 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780618190997 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
Dinadan is the younger brother of the famous knight Tristram. Gentle by nature, he loves music and dreams of becoming a minstrel, something his noble family's customs frown on, so he leaves home to seek his fortune. Along the way he has a series of adventures that show him he is braver than he believed. He falls in with knights from King Arthur's court and then with a Moorish knight, and he learns more about his celebrated brother's secret love for Isolde while dabbling in romance himself. The book combines the story of Tristan and Iseult with other Arthurian material and is told with the humour of the rest of the series.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Squire's Tales
- Series: The Squire's Tales core; position 5 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Gerald Morris
Notes
- The ISBN is the hardback ISBN listed by the publisher for the 2003 first edition.
- From the series record (The Squire's Tales): Ten humorous Arthurian novels for young readers, following Terence, Gawain and a changing cast at Camelot.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Squire's Tales: position 5 of 10: previous Parsifal's Page (2001) · next The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight (2004)
Sources
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