Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1918 — KING ARTHUR’S ROUND TABLE [ARTICLE]

KING ARTHUR’S ROUND TABLE

Legend of Sir Galahad and the “Holy Graal” as Recorded by I ■ English Writer.

Sir Galahad of Tennyson’s “The Holy Graal,” was the noblest and purest knight of the Round Table. The title was invented by Walter Map In the “Quest of the Graal.” Morley, in his “English Writers',” says Sir Galahad was the son of Map’s L’Ancelot and Elaine. The son and namesake of Joseph of Arimathea, Bishop Joseph, to whom the holy dish was bequeathed, first instituted the Order of the Round Table. The initiated at their festivals sat as apostle knights round the table, with the Holy Graal in the midst, .leaving one seat vacant as that which the Lord had occupied and which was reserved for a descendant of Joseph, named Galahad. Whatever man else attempted to sit in the place of Galahad the earth swallowed. It was called therefore the Siege (seat) Perilous. When men became sinful, the Holy Graal, visible only to pure .eyes, disappeared. On its recovery depended the honor and peace of England, but only Sir Galahad, who was at the appointed time brought to the knights by a mysterious old man clothed in white, and placed in the Siege Perilous —only the pure Sir Galahad succeeded in the quest.