{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart064.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart064.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart064.htm","text":"CHAPTER IV\nHow the battle was finished or he came, and how King\nArthur founded an abbey where the battle was.\nTHEREWITHAL came one to King Arthur, and told him that King\nPellinore was within three mile with a great host; and he said,\nGo unto him, and let him understand how we have sped. So within\na while King Pellinore came with a great host, and saluted the\npeople and the king, and there was great joy made on every side.\nThen the king let search how much people of his party there was\nslain; and there were found but little past two hundred men slain\nand eight knights of the Table Round in their pavilions. Then\nthe king let rear and devise in the same place whereat the battle\nwas done a fair abbey, and endowed it with great livelihood, and\nlet it call the Abbey of La Beale Adventure. But when some of\nthem came into their countries, whereof the five kings were\nkings, and told them how they were slain, there was made great\ndole. And all King Arthur's enemies, as the King of North Wales,\nand the kings of the North, [when they] wist of the battle, they\nwere passing heavy. And so the king returned unto Camelot in\nhaste.\nAnd when he was come to Camelot he called King Pellinore unto\nhim, and said, Ye understand well that we have lost eight knights\nof the best of the Table Round, and by your advice we will choose\neight again of the best we may find in this court. Sir, said\nPellinore, I shall counsel you after my conceit the best: there\nare in your court full noble knights both of old and young; and\n<108>therefore by mine advice ye shall choose half of the old and\nhalf of the young. Which be the old? said King Arthur. Sir,\nsaid King Pellinore, meseemeth that King Uriens that hath wedded\nyour sister Morgan le Fay, and the King of the Lake, and Sir\nHervise de Revel, a noble knight, and Sir Galagars, the fourth.\nThis is well devised, said King Arthur, and right so shall it be.\nNow, which are the four young knights? said Arthur. Sir, said\nPellinore, the first is Sir Gawaine, your nephew, that is as good\na knight of his time as any is in this land; and the second as\nmeseemeth best is Sir Griflet le Fise de Dieu, that is a good\nknight and full desirous in arms, and who may see him live he\nshall prove a good knight; and the third as meseemeth is well to\nbe one of the knights of the Round Table, Sir Kay the Seneschal,\nfor many times he hath done full worshipfully, and now at your\nlast battle he did full honourably for to undertake to slay two\nkings. By my head, said Arthur, he is best worth to be a knight\nof the Round Table of any that ye have rehearsed, an he had done\nno more prowess in his life days.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IV CHAPTER IV","type":"page"}