{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart357.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart357.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart357.htm","text":"CHAPTER IV\nHow the old man brought Galahad to the Siege Perilous\nand set him therein, and how all the knights marvelled.\nTHE king was right glad of his words, and said unto the\ngood man: Sir, ye be right welcome, and the young\nknight with you. Then the old man made the young\nman to unarm him, and he was in a coat of red sendal,\nand bare a mantle upon his shoulder that was furred with\nermine, and put that upon him. And the old knight said\nunto the young knight: Sir, follow me. And anon he\nled him unto the Siege Perilous, where beside sat Sir\nLauncelot; and the good man lift up the cloth, and found\nthere letters that said thus: This is the siege of Galahad,\nthe haut prince. Sir, said the old knight, wit ye well\nthat place is yours. And then he set him down surely in\nthat siege. And then he said to the old man: Sir, ye\nmay now go your way, for well have ye done that ye were\ncommanded to do; and recommend me unto my grandsire,\nKing Pelles, and unto my lord Petchere, and say\nthem on my behalf, I shall come and see them as soon as\never I may. So the good man departed; and there met\nhim twenty noble squires, and so took their horses and\nwent their way.\nThen all the knights of the Table Round marvelled\ngreatly of Sir Galahad, that he durst sit there in that Siege\nPerilous, and was so tender of age; and wist not from\nwhence he came but all only by God; and said: This is\nhe by whom the Sangreal shall be enchieved, for there sat\nnever none but he, but he were mischieved. Then Sir\nLauncelot beheld his son and had great joy of him. Then\nBors told his fellows: Upon pain of my life this young\nknight shall come unto great worship. This noise was\ngreat in all the court, so that it came to the queen. Then\nshe had marvel what knight it might be that durst adventure\nhim to sit in the Siege Perilous. Many said unto the\nqueen he resembled much unto Sir Launcelot. I may\nwell suppose, said the queen, that Sir Launcelot begat him\non King Pelles' daughter, by the which he was made to lie\nby, by enchantment, and his name is Galahad. I would\nfain see him, said the queen, for he must needs be a noble\nman, for so is his father that him begat, I report me unto\nall the Table Round.\nSo when the meat was done that the king and all were\nrisen, the king yede unto the Siege Perilous and lift up\nthe cloth, and found there the name of Galahad; and then\nhe shewed it unto Sir Gawaine, and said: Fair nephew,\nnow have we among us Sir Galahad, the good knight that\nshall worship us all; and upon pain of my life he shall\nenchieve the Sangreal, right as Sir Launcelot had done us to\nunderstand. Then came King Arthur unto Galahad and\nsaid: Sir, ye be welcome, for ye shall move many good\nknights to the quest of the Sangreal, and ye shall enchieve\nthat never knights might bring to an end. Then the\nking took him by the hand, and went down from the\npalace to shew Galahad the adventures of the stone.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XIII CHAPTER IV","type":"page"}