Lancelot-Grail: The post-Vulgate Quest for the Holy Grail & the post-Vulgate Death of ArthurNorris J. Lacy The revised version of The Quest of the Holy Grail gives a greater role to Perceval, and introduces a number of knights not found in the Vulgate; but the largest change is that much of the story of Tristan (and of his rival Palamedes) is incorporated into the story. The achievement of the Grail quest centres on Galahad's healing of Pellehan, which has to be accomplished before the knights can reach the Grail itself. The Death of Arthur is little more than a relatively brief postscript, bringing the story of the adventures of the kingdom of Logres to an end; Lancelot and Guenevere are revealed as lovers, and Arthur fights both Lancelot and then the Romans. Despite this victory, he is betrayed and killed by Mordred, as has been foreshadowed from the outset of the new material. The romance ends with king Mark of Cornwall's death when he attempts to kill Lancelot and Bors at the hermitage to which they have retreated. For a full description of the Post-Vulgate Cycle see the blurb for the complete set. |
Contents
the Quest For the hoLy GraiL 73 galahad Is Knighted | 3 |
The adventure of the Burning Knight The sword in the stone eric and helain seated at the round Table | 7 |
The Perilous seat galahad achieves the adventure of the stone Tournament at Camelot | 11 |
Tristan arrives The round Table Is Complete The holy grail appears The Knights Vow to seek It | 16 |
The Test of the Bloody sword The ugly maiden Prophesies that gawain Will Kill many Knights on the quest | 19 |
Preparations for the quest | 21 |
departure gawains slaughters foretold The suicide | 27 |
galahad Wins his shield meleagant asks to Become a Knight | 31 |
eric Incurs the enmity of gawain and agravain | 196 |
eric Is Paralyzed by the spring of the Virgin | 199 |
eric defeats sagremor Kills yvain of the White hands and Is attacked by gawain | 205 |
erics death hector and meraugis Take his Body to Camelot | 211 |
hector and meraugis at Court with Claudin and arthur the less | 217 |
arthur the less and meraugis learn Who They are and return to the quest with hector | 220 |
galahad and Tristan ride Together | 226 |
galahad and Tristan overhear Palamedess Confession of love for Iseut Tristan furious follows him | 227 |
galahad returns to the abbey and drives a demon out of a grave | 37 |
galahad Knights meleagant Who Is Wounded | 41 |
galahad and yvain the Bastard are guests of dalidess father dalides and his father Kill Themselves | 47 |
adventures of galahad gawain dodinel Bors and Kay The Bizarre Beast The White stag | 53 |
Yvain the Bastard and Girflet Wounded by the Knight of the Questing Beast dodinel and asgares the sad Wounded by Tristan | 60 |
galahad and Bors in the house of King Brutus Whose daughter Kills herself for love of galahad | 66 |
galahad and Bors Chase the questing Beast and meet Palamedes and his father esclabor the unknown | 74 |
yvain of Cenel dies gawain escapes Is Blamed by yvains sister | 79 |
gawain Kills Patrides | 83 |
further adventures of hector of the fens helain the White gawain King Bademagu yvains sister and the Knight of the questing Beast | 85 |
helain hector and gawain see Visions in the ancient Chapel | 90 |
gawain Kills yvain the Bastard gawains and hectors Visions explained | 96 |
Bors Cleanses himself spiritually and Chooses to save a strange maiden rather than his Brother lionel | 102 |
The lady of the Tent lionel saved by Borss Prayer | 108 |
lionels revenge Calogrenants death Bors rides to the sea | 112 |
Perceval saves the good man from suicide learns more about the quest | 117 |
Perceval and the Knight of the questing Beast | 123 |
gaheriet Takes Perceval to Be healed Perceval finds lancelot dreaming | 125 |
lancelots dream | 128 |
Perceval and lancelot at the hermitage of the red olive Tree lancelot Confesses | 131 |
Perceval and lancelot seek to learn Why the olive Tree has red leaves The adventure of the man in the Chair | 137 |
Perceval and lancelot meet galahad at Percevals aunts Cell | 139 |
lancelot follows galahad and stays with Two hermits | 141 |
lancelot gives his only food to a maiden and has his horse Killed by a Black Knight | 143 |
Perceval at his aunts Cell | 144 |
galahad rescues Perceval and a maiden Perceval refuses to Knight an unknown Boy Who later Turns out to Be arthur the less | 148 |
Perceval and gawain defeated by the unknown Knight Who Is arthur the less | 154 |
Perceval gawain and Claudin | 159 |
The Temptation of Perceval | 162 |
Bors and Perceval on the mysterious Bark galahad at a Tournament | 165 |
gawain and his Brothers in morgans house learn lancelots secret | 167 |
mordred Brutally Kills a maiden Bademagu Wounds mordred gawain Wounds Bademagu mortally | 173 |
The death of King Bademagu meraugis fights gawain eric makes Peace | 176 |
eric and meraugis with a maiden free Castle Celis and erics sister | 182 |
eric Kills his sister | 187 |
eric mourns his sister | 191 |
meraugis and hector look for eric | 194 |
Tristan Wounds hebes and fights Palamedes Blioberis makes Peace | 230 |
Palamedes rescues Tristan at the Castle lespar galahad rescues Them Both | 235 |
galahad at King Pelless Castle | 240 |
a maiden Takes galahad to Cure a madwoman | 245 |
galahad repels attacks by envious Knights and Cures a Woman of Leprosy His Companion Is Identified as Percevals Sister | 248 |
galahad and Percevals sister Join Perceval and Bors on the Bark The ship of faith solomons Bed The sword of the strange straps | 254 |
galahad Perceval and Bors encounter Caiaphas | 259 |
galahad Perceval and Bors free the Castle of the Count arnault | 261 |
The adventure of the White stag The death of Percevals sister galahad Perceval and Bors Part | 265 |
King mark of Cornwall Invades logres Besieges arthur in Camelot | 272 |
galahad on his Way to help King arthur Is followed by Palamedes and arthur the less | 276 |
defeat of King mark | 283 |
King mark Tries to Kill galahad | 290 |
galahad Confounds envious Knights | 295 |
galahad hector and meraugis in the Castle of Treachery | 303 |
lancelot on the Bark with Percevals sisters Body meets his grandfather galegantin then Is Joined by galahad | 311 |
galahad Bors and Perceval defeat Count Bedoin | 316 |
adventures of samaliel | 321 |
lancelot hector gaheriet and gawain at Corbenic | 327 |
galahad defeats Palamedes Who Is then Baptized and seated at the round Table | 334 |
galahad and Palamedes at the spring of healing Where They free gawain gaheriet Blioberis and sagremor from the giants Tower | 345 |
galahad accomplishes the adventures of the Burning Tomb and the hot spring Palamedes Kills the questing Beast | 350 |
galahad at Corbenic The quest Is accomplished | 353 |
The death of Palamedes | 358 |
Pellehan explains the questing Beast the spring of healing and the lady of the Chapel | 364 |
galahad Perceval and Bors Take the holy grail to sarras on solomons ship Burial of Percevals sister | 369 |
death of galahad and Perceval Bors returns to the Kingdom of logres | 372 |
the death oF arthur 153 154 lancelots disloyalty revealed to King arthur | 379 |
lancelot rescues the queen Takes her to Joyous guard death of agravain guerrehet and gaheriet King arthurs grief 379 | 386 |
War Between King arthur and lancelot in Britain and gaul gawain receives his death Wound arthur defeats the romans | 393 |
mordreds rising death of the Knights of logres King arthur in the ancient Chapel | 397 |
Blioberis goes to look for lancelot death of arthur the less | 402 |
The death of King arthur | 405 |
gueneveres death lancelots last deeds and death | 408 |
The final destruction of logres | 417 |
Common terms and phrases
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