Its never easy being a knight, especially for a practical Eudoric Dambertson, whose mind and temperament are better suited to trade than to the highly impractical demands of chivalry. Take the simple matter of courting a wife. To please his potential father in law, the enchanter Baldonius, the young man must bring back two knightly spurs and the hand of the beauteous Lusina. But battles with dragons always seem to go better in the ballads...