Meleagant rides into Camelot, right into the Great Hall where Arthur and Guinevere and many knights are sitting.
He tucks his helmet under his arm:
'Well, I hear Lancelot is not here to face me. If he will not keep his word, perhaps some other among you would like to fight me. Otherwise the Queen comes with me.'
Gawain jumped to his feet:
'Lancelot is not here - no-one knows what has become of him - but I shall fight you in his place.'
Gawain was about to mount his horse, Gringolet, when Lancelot walked into the hall. Gawain could not have been more surprised if the knight had fallen from the sky and landed in front of him. Still he quickly hugs and kisses him. The Queen too is full of joy, but she dares not show all her love and delight in front of the King and all the other people there.
As for Meleagant, he goes pale. How is it possible? There was not so much as a crack in that tower for Lancelot to escape through.
The King leads the way, with the Queen and her ladies, to a plain below the town of Camelot. There they take their seats under a sycamore tree by a brook that bubbles clear over a bed of bright pebbles. The two knights take their places at either end of the plain.
They charge at full speed, striking one another so hard that their horses are
knocked to the ground. The two knights leap off, while the horses gallop away,
biting and kicking as they go - for they hate one another as much as their riders
do.
The knights fight hard now with their swords, dodging and striking. Yet Lancelot
is quicker, and his blows fall more exactly where they should. Lancelot slices
Meleagant's arm from his shoulder. He knocks three of his teeth into his mouth.
Yet still Meleagant vows he will pay his enemy back. He is made of pride and
rage and fury. He does not know how to ask for mercy. He cannot admit that
the other man has beaten him. 
He
does not know the words with which to surrender. So Lancelot grasps him by
the helmet and cuts his head from his shoulders.
Then the Queen and all the people know that at last they are free forever. Cheers and shouts of joy are heard all around. King Arthur, the Queen and Lancelot lead the way back to the castle among the joyful crowds.
