There was a lord who took a lovely, well-mannered wife in order to have heirs to leave his fortune to. The lord's selfish obsession with his wife caused him to lock his wife in a tower with the lord's sister to maintain her monogamous relationship with the lord. The wife and sister never spoke and the wife lived in the sorrow and pain of the tower for seven years. The wife lost her beauty and wished for death to separate her from this marriage. The wife craves the opportunity to socialize and attend church.
One day, the lord and sister left the wife alone in the tower. A hawk enters the wife's room and transforms into a handsome knight named Muldumarec. Muldumarec came to the wife in response to her prayers and announces his love for the wife. The sister returns to the tower, causing Muldumarec to leave the wife. Foreshadowing future events, Muldumarec tells the wife, "If it all happens as I've said, and we are indeed betrayed, I will never be able to fly away, except to die."
With the love of Muldumarec, the wife changes her mindset about her circumstances and prefers to exist home alone. This sudden happiness of the wife puzzles the lord and his sister, so they plot to discover the source of the wife's newfound happiness. The lord fakes a journey to see the King and the wife hides behind a curtain to spy on the wife.
Muldumarec arrives in the wife's window and performs his transformation, scaring the lord's sister. The sister reports her findings to the lord and the lord orders that the knight be trapped and killed. The lord sets up sharp iron spits in the window where the knight makes his entrance. The wife sends for Muldumarec and he is pierced by the iron spits and begins to bleed. Muldumarec offers the wife comfort by stating that the wife will give birth to a son named Yonec who will be the avenger of Muldumarec and his mother.
The wife leaps from her prison tower and follows the blood trail made by Muldumarec upon his fleeing of the tower. The wife enters the silver city of Muldumarec and finds him sleeping in his golden bed inside a castle. Muldumarec warns the wife to leave the city now or she will be tortured for the injuries made to Muldumarec. Before leaving, Muldumarec gives the wife a ring to wipe the lord's memory and a sword that Yonec must use to kill the lord with. Yonec must be told the story of Muldumarec and adventures. The wife returns to her tower and the lord or his sister ever ask the wife to explain her absence.
The son of Muldumarec and the wife, Yonec, is born and is dubbed a knight at the appropriate age. The lord, the wife, and Yonec attend a feast in Caerleon where they stay in an abbey. In the chapter room of the abbey, the trio spy a tomb belonging to Muldumarec, unknown to the trio. The wife tells Yonec of Muldumarec's story and dies shortly after. After hearing that the lord murdered Muldumarec, Yonec beheads the lord. The wife was buried beside the lord and Yonec was made lord.
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