Question

who was the gallant and why was he late​

Answer 1

Answer:

From the author: I pinched the title from Sir Walter Scott, but this is of course another Danish ballad, one of the humorous ones. Three childhood friends, the old love triangle, a flooded river on the wedding day ...

A Little Foreword ...

These forays into the art of the literary fairy tale were originally published by Thistledown Press in 1998 as The Serpent Bride and Other Stories From Medieval Danish Ballads. They were inspired by the ballad collections and translations of Axel Olrik, E.M. Smith-Dampier, and R.C. Alexander Prior, all of which ultimately owe their existence to the work of Svend Grundtvig. They’re quite different from my usual writing for adults: light, romantic, and influenced far more...

Answer 2

Explanation:

Ellen had fumed her personal opinion of him as a Gallant who was Lochinvar and he was late because he swam across the Eske river even though the river had no swallow part where some stream was crossing it.