{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart363.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart363.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart363.htm","text":"CHAPTER X\nHow Galahad departed with the shield, and how King\nEvelake had received the shield of Joseph of Aramathie.\nSIR GALAHAD, said the squire, that knight that wounded\nBagdemagus sendeth you greeting, and bade that ye should\nbear this shield, wherethrough great adventures should\nbefall. Now blessed be God and fortune, said Galahad.\nAnd then he asked his arms, and mounted upon his horse,\nand hung the white shield about his neck, and commended\nthem unto God. And Sir Uwaine said he would bear\nhim fellowship if it pleased him. Sir, said Galahad, that\nmay ye not, for I must go alone, save this squire shall\nbear me fellowship: and so departed Uwaine.\nThen within a while came Galahad thereas the White\nKnight abode him by the hermitage, and everych saluted\nother courteously. Sir, said Galahad, by this shield be\nmany marvels fallen. Sir, said the knight, it befell after\nthe passion of our Lord Jesu Christ thirty-two year, that\nJoseph of Aramathie, the gentle knight, the which took\ndown our Lord off the holy Cross, at that time he\ndeparted from Jerusalem with a great party of his kindred\nwith him. And so he laboured till that they came to a\ncity that hight Sarras. And at that same hour that Joseph\ncame to Sarras there was a king that hight Evelake, that\nhad great war against the Saracens, and in especial against\none Saracen, the which was King Evelake's cousin, a rich\nking and a mighty, which marched nigh this land, and his\nname was called Tolleme la Feintes. So on a day these\ntwo met to do battle. Then Joseph, the son of Joseph of\nAramathie, went to King Evelake and told him he should\nbe discomfit and slain, but if he left his belief of the old\nlaw and believed upon the new law. And then there he\nshewed him the right belief of the Holy Trinity, to the\nwhich he agreed unto with all his heart; and there this\nshield was made for King Evelake, in the name of Him\nthat died upon the Cross. And then through his good\nbelief he had the better of King Tolleme. For when\nEvelake was in the battle there was a cloth set afore the\nshield, and when he was in the greatest peril he let put\naway the cloth, and then his enemies saw a figure of a\nman on the Cross, wherethrough they all were discomfit.\nAnd so it befell that a man of King Evelake's was smitten\nhis hand off, and bare that hand in his other hand; and\nJoseph called that man unto him and bade him go with\ngood devotion touch the Cross. And as soon as that man\nhad touched the Cross with his hand it was as whole as\never it was to-fore. Then soon after there fell a great\nmarvel, that the cross of the shield at one time vanished\naway that no man wist where it became. And then King\nEvelake was baptised, and for the most part all the people\nof that city. So, soon after Joseph would depart, and\nKing Evelake would go with him, whether he wold or\nnold. And so by fortune they came into this land, that\nat that time was called Great Britain; and there they\nfound a great felon paynim, that put Joseph into prison.\nAnd so by fortune tidings came unto a worthy man that\nhight Mondrames, and he assembled all his people for the\ngreat renown he had heard of Joseph; and so he came\ninto the land of Great Britain and disherited this felon\npaynim and consumed him, and therewith delivered Joseph\nout of prison. And after that all the people were turned\nto the Christian faith.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XIII CHAPTER X","type":"page"}