It’s not a familiar story, because the romances memorialized in ballads have been distorted by nostalgic perspective. Their subjects reduced from unique individuals to a smattering of basic traits, from people to characters. This is the story of an unconventional couple, a lady who both locked herself in a tower and escaped on her own, and her knight, whose greatest act of heroism was not attempting to prove himself a hero. Love is not a fixed star, but a direction, a route, a journey.

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