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Part V.  Galahad's Grail Quest

"Sir Launcelot Beheld the Young squire and Saw Him Seemly

and Demure as a Dove, with all Manner of Good Features, that He

Weened of his Age Never to Have Seen so Fair a Man of Form"

by William Russell Flint

[Lancelot Meets and Knights his son Galahad]

                          

"Sir Galahad is brought to the Court of                                        "How at the Castle of Corbin a Maiden

          King Arthur" by Walter Crane.                                                Bare in the Sangreal and Foretold  

             [Note the empty chair--the "seige perilous"--                                              the Achievements of Galahad"                   

           on which Galahad's name magically appears.]                                                      by Arthur Rackham.                              

"Knights of the Round Table Departing on the Quest for the Holy Grail" by William Dyce

"This girdle, lords," said she,"made for the most part of mine

 own hair, which, while I was yet in the world, I loved full well"

by Lancelot Speed. [Galahad and Percival's Sister Amide/Dindrane]

"The Dream of Sir Lancelot at the Chapel of the Holy Grail"

by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

[An angel announces the failure of his quest due to his passion for Guinevere.]

"Sir Galahad" by Arthur Hughes

[The long quest of Galahad, Lancelot's son,  is encouraged by supernatural beings.]

"Sir Galahad" by Arthur Hughes

"The Failure of Sir Gawain" by E. Burne-Jones and John Henry Dearle

"Knight of the Holy Grail" by Frederick Judd Waugh

[Galahad has a vision of the grail.]

"The Quest of the Grail" by Elizabeth Siddal.

Also known as "Sir Galahad at the Shrine of the Holy Grail"

"The Attainment of the Sanc Grael" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

[The grail maiden holding the grail.]

"How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Percival Were Fed with the Sanc Grael,

but Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

[Bors and Percival share in the success of Galahad's grail quest.]

Links

More information on Galahad's Tales and Galahad.

Find out why Gawain and Lancelot failed in their quests for the Grail.

Many links on the Holy Grail. To learn more about the Grail symbol, see the links at Part 4.

Resources on "Arthurian Literature and Art": Celtic-Medieval and Victorian-Modern.

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NOTE: Students should be advised that there is no one standard version of the King Arthur legends. This "Arthurian Legends Illustrated" represents an amalgam of different artists' views.

Painting, top of page: "Attainment of the Holy Grail" (tapestry) by E. C. Burne-Jones