Note the recurrence of the possessive father motif. Remember that a palfrey is not a war-horse. Note that he is fully aware that Christianity forbids bigamy. In the Middle Ages divorce was also illegal. The incident of the storm is probably inspired by that in Jonah 1.
Similar stories occur elsewhere in Medieval narratives.
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