[1] In the Post-Vulgate, Pellias, the son of a poor vavasour, seeks the love of the high-born maiden, named Arcade or Archade.

Though he wins her a golden circlet in a tournament, she spurns him, holes up in her castle refusing to see him, and sends her knights daily to humiliate him in hopes of driving him away.

Thomas Malory reworked the Post-Vulgate story in the first book of his seminal compilation Le Morte d'Arthur.

As a young knight, he deeply loves the maiden named Ettarre who finds his youthful shyness and stammering bothersome and does not return his affection.

She lies to him to induce him to give her a golden arm circlet, the prize of a tournament that he won, as a token of his love.

Ettarre, selfish and having gained the circlet and thus some social elevation, desires to be left alone; but despite her treachery Pelleas cannot forget her.