The knight owns a castle on the other side of a forest from the cloister, where Goldmund arrives and is invited to stay. The knight, a man of some learning, has led an adventurous life and wants to write about it, for which he enlists Goldmund's aid as a student of classical languages. He is a well-to-do and upright man, somewhat elderly, with two beautiful teenaged daughters. When the knight discovers that Goldmund has been dallying with the girls, he walks a long way with Goldmund, stops, and tells him to keep going. It is a tribute to the knight's strong character that he decides not to harm the young man, but merely send him on his way.
