Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1920 — LEGEND OF SIR GALAHAD [ARTICLE]

LEGEND OF SIR GALAHAD

Tennyson’s Hero of “The Holy Grail," the Noblest and Purest Knight of the Round Table.

Sir Galahad of Tennyson’s “The Holy Grail,” was the noblest and purest knight of the Round table. The title was invented by Walter Map In the “Quest of the Grail.” 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 Arlmathea, 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 Grail in the midst leaving one seat vacant 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 Grail, visible only to pure eyes, disappeared. On Its recovery depended the honor and peace of England, but only Sir Galahad, who war at the appointed time brought to thr knights by a mysterious old man clothed in white, and placed in the Siege Perilous —only the pure Sir Galahad succeeded in the quest