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The Questing Beast in Arthur Rackham's illustration for Alfred W. Pollard's The Romance of King Arthur (1917). The account from Post-Vulgate Suite du Merlin, which was taken up by Thomas Malory for his seminal Le Morte d'Arthur, has the Questing Beast appear to the young King Arthur after he has had an affair with his half-sister Morgause and begotten Mordred (they did not know that they were ...
Pellinor's attributed arms. Pellinore is a major figure in the 13th-century Post-Vulgate prose cycle and the sections of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur based on it. There, as son of King Pellam and brother of Kings Pelles (the Fisher King) and Alain, he is most famous for his endless hunt of the Questing Beast, which he is tracking when King Arthur first meets him.
Palamedes' arms [1] Palamedes / p æ l ə ˈ m iː d iː z / (also called Palomides / p æ l ə ˈ m aɪ d iː z /, or some other variant such as the French Palamède; known as li Sarradins that is "the Saracen") is a Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend.
Questing Beast – Beast with the head and neck of a snake, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion, and the feet of a hart. Sea-lion; Serpopard – Lion/leopard body with a snake head. Sharabha – part Lion, part bird-beast, with eight legs.
Questing is an outdoor locating game. Questing may also refer to: Questing (horse), a racehorse; Questing (New Marlborough, Massachusetts), an open space preserve and historic site; Questing Beast (also known as "The Questing"), a mythological creature of Arthurian legends
Questing is a 438-acre (177 ha) open space preserve and colonial era historic site located in New Marlborough, Massachusetts within The Berkshires. The property, acquired in 1996 by the land conservation non-profit organization The Trustees of Reservations , is named for a mythical beast from Arthurian Mythology called the Questing Beast .
Questing Beast (Arthurian legend) – Serpent-leopard-lion-hart hybrid; Quetzalcoatl – Important Aztec god whose name means "feathered serpent"; he is not to be confused with the quetzal, a type of bird; Quinotaur – Five-horned bull
The Once and Future King is a collection of fantasy novels by T. H. White about the legend of King Arthur.It is loosely based upon the 1485 work Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory.