{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart277.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart277.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart277.htm","text":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER XL\n \n Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends and Sagas\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n BOOK X\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n CHAPTER XL\n \n How Sir Galahalt did do cry a jousts in Surluse, and Queen\n Guenever's knights should joust against all that would\n come.\n \n \n BUT as the book saith, King Mark would never stint till\n he had slain him by treason. And by Alice he gat a child\n that hight Bellengerus le Beuse. And by good fortune he\n came to the court of King Arthur, and proved a passing\n good knight; and he revenged his father's death, for the\n false King Mark slew both Sir Tristram and Alisander\n falsely and feloniously. And it happed so that Alisander\n had never grace nor fortune to come to King Arthur's\n court. For an he had come to Sir Launcelot, all knights\n said that knew him, he was one of the strongest knights\n that was in Arthur's days, and great dole was made for\n him. So let we of him pass, and turn we to another tale.\n \n So it befell that Sir Galahalt, the haut prince, was\n lord of the country of Surluse, whereof came many good\n knights. And this noble prince was a passing good man\n of arms, and ever he held a noble fellowship together.\n And then he came to Arthur's court and told him his\n intent, how this was his will, how he would let cry a\n jousts in the country of Surluse, the which country was\n within the lands of King Arthur, and there he asked leave\n to let cry a jousts. I will give you leave, said King Arthur;\n but wit thou well, said King Arthur, I may not be there.\n Sir, said Queen Guenever, please it you to give me leave\n to be at that jousts. With right good will, said Arthur;\n for Sir Galahalt, the haut prince, shall have you in\n governance. Sir, said Galahalt, I will as ye will. Sir,\n then the queen, I will take with me [Sir Launcelot] and\n such knights as please me best. Do as ye list, said King\n Arthur. So anon she commanded Sir Launcelot to make\n him ready with such knights as he thought best.\n \n So in every good town and castle of this land was\n made a cry, that in the country of Surluse Sir Galahalt\n should make a joust that should last eight days, and how\n the haut prince, with the help of Queen Guenever's\n knights, should joust against all manner of men that\n would come. When this cry was known, kings and\n princes, dukes and earls, barons and noble knights, made\n them ready to be at that jousts. And at the day of\n jousting there came in Sir Dinadan disguised, and did\n many great deeds of arms.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK X CHAPTER XL","type":"page"}