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* Dame Lynette came to court to fetch a knight to defend her sister, Lady Lyonesse. In Malory, Sir Gareth married Lady Lyonesse; in Tennyson, Lynette.
* In Edmund Spenser's ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'', Una fetches Saint George to defend her parents and their kingdom. They ''do'' become a couple.
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* Teyla the Sorceress in ''[[He-Man and
* Naturally, Gerald Morris has quite a few in his Arthurian retellings, ''[[The
** The Three Questing Ladies play this trope straighter, although in different ways. For example, the eldest of them trains her knights before letting them embark on adventures, and the youngest gets hers killed (by encouraging them to fight other knights until they die valiantly, at which point she latches onto the winning knight, and so on until she returns to the meeting place).
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