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amari_zYou know, I'd forgotten that Dagonet was actually the name of King Arthur's jester.
According to Malory:
--Dagonet gets beat up by Tristan beside a well when Tristan is imitating Lancelot and has gone mad because of love.
--Sir Dinaden tricks King Mark (Tristan's evil uncle) into thinking Dagonet is actually Lancelot and King Mark flees from him screaming and everyone else has a good laugh. Dagonet chases him with great enthusiasm and roaring and other knights follow to laugh and to make sure that he doesn't actually joust with Mark, since Dagonet "was a favorite of King Arthur" but presumably not that good a jouster.
--Dagonet, still chasing King Mark, gets beat up by Tristan (so do the knights following him).
--Dagonet is sent by Sir Kay to joust with the La Cote Male Taile (real name, Breunor le Noire, but so dubbed by Kay, who has learned nothing from the Gareth incident) in the new knight's first joust in order to humiliate him (a lady mocks him--ha ha, you're so pathetic they sent Arthur's fool to be your first opponent). Dagonet, of course, loses.
Either the movie makers had more of sense of a humor than I'd previously thought or they picked the name because it sounded cool.
According to Malory:
--Dagonet gets beat up by Tristan beside a well when Tristan is imitating Lancelot and has gone mad because of love.
--Sir Dinaden tricks King Mark (Tristan's evil uncle) into thinking Dagonet is actually Lancelot and King Mark flees from him screaming and everyone else has a good laugh. Dagonet chases him with great enthusiasm and roaring and other knights follow to laugh and to make sure that he doesn't actually joust with Mark, since Dagonet "was a favorite of King Arthur" but presumably not that good a jouster.
--Dagonet, still chasing King Mark, gets beat up by Tristan (so do the knights following him).
--Dagonet is sent by Sir Kay to joust with the La Cote Male Taile (real name, Breunor le Noire, but so dubbed by Kay, who has learned nothing from the Gareth incident) in the new knight's first joust in order to humiliate him (a lady mocks him--ha ha, you're so pathetic they sent Arthur's fool to be your first opponent). Dagonet, of course, loses.
Either the movie makers had more of sense of a humor than I'd previously thought or they picked the name because it sounded cool.
