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Galahad (/ ˈ ɡ æ l ə h æ d /), sometimes referred to as Galeas (/ ɡ ə ˈ l iː ə s /) or Galath (/ ˈ ɡ æ l ə θ /), among other versions of his name, is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend.
Sir Galahad is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, and published in his 1842 collection of poetry. It is one of his many poems that deal with the legend of King Arthur , and describes Galahad experiencing a vision of the Holy Grail .
Sir Galahad takes the Siege Perilous at the Round Table, in a 15th-century illustration. In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous (Welsh: Gwarchae Peryglus, also known as The Perilous Seat, Welsh: Sedd Peryglus) is a vacant seat at the Round Table reserved by Merlin for the knight who would one day be successful in the quest for the Holy Grail.
Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin asked defence minister Al Carns why documents about the 1982 attack on the Sir Galahad were being withheld. ‘Mystifying’ why Falklands War files on ship’s ...
Sir Galahad, the Quest for the Holy Grail by Arthur Hughes (1870) The authors of the Vulgate Cycle ( Lancelot-Grail ) used the Grail as a symbol of divine grace ; the virgin Galahad, illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine , the world's greatest knight and the Grail Bearer at the castle of Corbenic , is destined to achieve the Grail, his ...
Pelles engineers the birth of Galahad by tricking Lancelot into bed with his daughter Elaine, and it is prophesied that Galahad will achieve the Grail and heal the Wasteland and the Maimed King. Galahad is conceived when Elaine gets Dame Brisen to use magic to trick Lancelot into thinking that he is coming to visit Guinevere. So Lancelot sleeps ...
On the 8 June 1982, the 1st Welsh Guards were aboard RFA Sir Galahad also waiting to be landed at Bluff Cove when Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram were attacked by Argentinian Skyhawk fighters who caught them by surprise. Both ships were badly hit. The explosions and subsequent fires resulted in heavy casualties on board Sir Galahad.
In the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate) prose cycle, the castle is named as Corbenic for the first time. In the highly Christian mystical Vulgate Quest for the Holy Grail, it is the home of the Grail family from the lineages of Jesus' followers Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, whose history is told in the cycle's prologue, the Vulgate Joseph.