“And there King Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield with a foine of his speare throughout the body more than a fadom.”

Nothing is said here of the sun’s shining through the wound, so as to break the shadow on the ground, but that incident is mentioned in the Italian version of the Romance of Launcelot of the Lake, L’ illustre e famosa istoria di Lancillotto del Lago , III ch. 162:⁠—

“Behind the opening made by the lance there passed through the wound a ray of the sun so manifestly, that Girflet saw it.”

“Behind the opening made by the lance there passed through the wound a ray of the sun so manifestly, that Girflet saw it.”