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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.
Illustration, c. 1901, by W. E. F. Britten.. 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.
He was known during King Arthur's reign as Sir Galahad, as revealed in "And the Loom of Fate". He has known Morgan le Fay (Alicia Witt) for centuries and considers her to be his archenemy, as he blames her for Arthur's death. In "Some Dude Named Jeff," he confirms that he is the illegitimate son of Lancelot du Lac.
In the version as told by Thomas Malory in Le Morte d'Arthur, based on the later Queste part of the Vulgate Cycle, Lady Elaine's father, King Pelles of the Grail castle Corbenic (Corbenek, Corbin, etc.), knew that Lancelot would have a son with Elaine, and that that child would be Galahad, "the most noblest [sic] knight in the world". [8]
Sir Galahad and Sir Bors in a stained glass window in St Cuthbert's Church, Holme Lacy, in memory of Sir Archibald Lucas-Tooth, 2nd Baronet. In Adventures of Sir Galahad, a serial from 1949, Sir Bors is played by "overweight, mustached" Charles King [3] as a "trusty off-sider" for Galahad, and is "permitted to play both comedy and drama [4]
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The Order of Sir Galahad is an organization for Anglican and Episcopal boys and men, founded in Boston in 1896 by the Reverend Ernest Joseph Dennen. The Order's activities are structured around Galahad in Arthurian legend. The Order's summer camp is Camp O-AT-KA in Sebago, Maine.
Gad (Hebrew: גָּד, Modern: Gad, Tiberian: Gāḏ, "luck") was, according to the Book of Genesis, the first of the two sons of Jacob and Zilpah (and the seventh of Jacob's twelve sons overall) and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Gad. [2] The text of Genesis implies that the name Gad means “luck”/“fortunate”, in Hebrew.