{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/mart/mart425.htm","path":"neu/mart/mart425.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mart425.htm","text":"CHAPTER XIX\nHow Sir Percivale and Sir Bors met with Sir Galahad,\nand how they came to the castle of Carbonek, and other\nmatters.\nSO departed he from thence, and commended the brethren\nto God; and so he rode five days till that he came to the\nMaimed King. And ever followed Percivale the five days,\nasking where he had been; and so one told him how the\nadventures of Logris were enchieved. So on a day it befell\nthat they came out of a great forest, and there they met at\ntraverse with Sir Bors, the which rode alone. It is none\nneed to tell if they were glad; and them he saluted, and\nthey yielded him honour and good adventure, and everych\ntold other. Then said Bors: It is mo than a year and\nan half that I ne lay ten times where men dwelled, but in\nwild forests and in mountains, but God was ever my\ncomfort.\nThen rode they a great while till that they came to the\ncastle of Carbonek. And when they were entered within\nthe castle King Pelles knew them; then there was great\njoy, for they wist well by their coming that they had\nfulfilled the quest of the Sangreal. Then Eliazar, King\nPelles' son, brought to-fore them the broken sword\nwherewith Joseph was stricken through the thigh. Then\nBors set his hand thereto, if that he might have soldered\nit again; but it would not be. Then he took it to Percivale,\nbut he had no more power thereto than he. Now\nhave ye it again, said Percivale to Galahad, for an it be ever\nenchieved by any bodily man ye must do it. And then he\ntook the pieces and set them together, and they seemed\nthat they had never been broken, and as well as it had\nbeen first forged. And when they within espied that the\nadventure of the sword was enchieved, then they gave the\nsword to Bors, for it might not be better set; for he was\na good knight and a worthy man.\nAnd a little afore even the sword arose great and\nmarvellous, and was full of great heat that many men fell\nfor dread. And anon alighted a voice among them, and\nsaid: They that ought not to sit at the table of Jesu\nChrist arise, for now shall very knights be fed. So they\nwent thence, all save King Pelles and Eliazar, his son, the\nwhich were holy men, and a maid which was his niece;\nand so these three fellows and they three were there, no\nmo. Anon they saw knights all armed came in at the\nhall door, and did off their helms and their arms, and said\nunto Galahad: Sir, we have hied right much for to be\nwith you at this table where the holy meat shall be\ndeparted. Then said he: Ye be welcome, but of whence\nbe ye? So three of them said they were of Gaul, and\nother three said they were of Ireland, and the other three\nsaid they were of Denmark. So as they sat thus there\ncame out a bed of tree, of a chamber, the which four\ngentlewomen brought; and in the bed lay a good man\nsick, and a crown of gold upon his head; and there in the\nmidst of the place they set him down, and went again\ntheir way. Then he lift up his head, and said: Galahad,\nKnight, ye be welcome, for much have I desired your\ncoming, for in such pain and in such anguish I have been\nlong. But now I trust to God the term is come that my\npain shall be allayed, that I shall pass out of this world so\nas it was promised me long ago. Therewith a voice said:\nThere be two among you that be not in the quest of the\nSangreal, and therefore depart ye.","title":"Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK XVII CHAPTER XIX","type":"page"}