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  Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - RFA Sir Galahad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
RFA Sir Galahad spent the early part of this year employed on freighting runs for the British Army, moving vehicles and equipment between continental ports and Marchwood, with a gap in March and April when she underwent a refit at Liverpool.
With the return of the Argonaut deployment, Sir Galahad returned to her ferrying role between the ports of Europe and Marchwood.
The RFA Sir Galahad that was lost in the Falklands was a 3,270 ton LSL that came onto the scene in 1966.
www.navynews.co.uk /ships/sirgalahad.asp   (467 words)

  
  Sir Galahad
Sir Galahad was one of the knights of King Arthur's Round Table in the Arthurian legend.
Hence the invention of Galahad, son to Lancelot by the Grail king’s daughter; predestined by his lineage to achieve the quest, foredoomed, the quest achieved, to vanish, a sacrifice to his father’s fame, which, enhanced by connexion with the Grail winner, could not risk eclipse by his presence.
Sir Galahad is also the title of a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which is about the legendary knight.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ga/Galahad.html   (254 words)

  
 Galahad.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the Arthurian legends, Sir Galahad is one of the most mentioned and most important of the Knights of the Round Table.
Sir Galahad was ultimately successful in his quest, not due to his superb skills as a night, but because of his purity of character.
Representing all the basic principles of chivalry with his ideals of purity of heart, mind, and body, Sir Galahad was one of the best examples we have today of the original intentions and benefits of a purely chivalric lifestyle.
faculty.smu.edu /bwheeler/Ency/Galahad.htm   (604 words)

  
 Bunnykins Sir Galahad by Royal Doulton
Galahad is the son of Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic.
Sir Galahad was known as the perfect Knight...perfect in courage, courtesy and chivalry.
The Bunnykins Sir Galahad is dressed in his Knight's armor, wearing a galant and regal robe of red and white around his shoulders.
www.tableandhome.com /prodfhghd   (302 words)

  
 Sir Galahad - Encyclopedia.com
Sir Galahad is a 2-year-old gray and white neutered male, available for adoption through the Tri-Boro Animal Shelter in Butler.
Sir Galahad, a 2-year-old gray-and-white neutered male, is described as a very courtly gentleman who loves to have his belly rubbed.
Doctor aided soldiers from Sir Galahad 20 Fight for THe Falklands: THE events of June 8, 1982, defined the bravery of the forces serving in the Falklands conflict.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Galahad.html   (618 words)

  
 Chapter XVII. The Thirteenth Book. How Sir Galahad Met with Sir Launcelot and Sir Percivale, and Smote Them Down, and ...
When Sir Galahad heard her say so he was adread to be known: therewith he smote his horse with his spurs and rode a great pace froward them.
Then perceived they both that he was Galahad; and up they gat on their horses, and rode fast after him, but in a while he was out of their sight.
Then Sir Launcelot looked by him, and saw an old chapel, and there he weened to have found people; and Sir Launcelot tied his horse till a tree, and there he did off his shield and hung it upon a tree.
www.bartleby.com /35/2/117.html   (498 words)

  
 Knights of the Round Table
In the episode of Sir Gareth, in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1469), Gawain's brother was the White Knight.
The third Galahad was the son of Lancelot and Elaine, the hero of the Quest.
Galahad restored the Broken Sword that was used to wound Joseph of Arimathea.
www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/roundtable.html   (13079 words)

  
 IX Adventure of Sir Galahad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
And while he was resting, there came a gentlewoman and asked leave of the hermit to speak with Sir Galahad, and would not be denied, though she was told he was weary and asleep.
When Sir Galahad beheld the sword, he saw that there was written on it, in letters of blood, that he who tried to draw it should never fail of shame in his body or be wounded to the death.
But first Sir Percivale's sister died, being bled to death, so that another lady might live, and she prayed them to lay her body in a boat and leave the boat to go as the winds and waves carried it.
camelot.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/lang/ix_adventure_of_sir_galahad.htm   (630 words)

  
 The Amazing Technicolor Goldfish - Comparison of Sir Galahad to Araby
The boy from "Araby" is similar to Sir Galahad because of the presence of religion in his life, because of his purity in impure surroundings, and because of his quest.
Sir Galahad's mother tricks his father into sleeping with her, and then Galahad is born out of wedlock.
Sir Galahad is a religious man who was raised in a convent and goes on a quest to find the Holy Grail.
www.technicolorgoldfish.net /araby.html   (1085 words)

  
 Galahad
"Sir Galahad" is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table (Camelot)Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend.
Galahad is placed in the care of his great aunt, the abbess at a nunnery, and is raised there.
Galahad was also the subject of certain folk songs by Rick Wakeman and Joan Baez, and is mentioned in the song Tin Man by the band America.
www.artistopia.com /galahad   (1033 words)

  
 Sir Galahad | King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Galahad was led into Arthur's court where he sat in the Siege Perilous and then drew the sword out.
It was later on when the Grail appeared in a vision at Arthur's court that Galahad was one of the three knights chosen to undertake the Quest for the Holy Grail.
Galahad mended the broken sword, and therefore, He was allowed to see the Grail.
www.kingarthursknights.com /knights/galahad.asp   (282 words)

  
 Galahad: The Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Galahad was also the original name of Sir Lancelot before he was taken to live with the Lady of the Lake as the result of a lost battle.
Galahad was the only knight of the Round Table that never killed anybody including any his enemies, nor he ever lied, and he was the only person that could wear his shield, everybody else ended up in ashes.
Galahad was the only knight allowed to behold the contents of the Grail, but died in ecstasy after seeing the contents.
amadeus.upr.clu.edu /~galahad/galahad.html   (417 words)

  
 EBK: Arthurian Literature: Sir Galahad
Sir Galahad was the illegitimate son of Sir Lancelot by Lady Elaine of Corbenic.
Galahad left on his quest with a shield made by King Evelake and painted with a red cross of blood by St.
Galahad cured the Maimed King there of his ailment by anointing him with blood from the Dolorous Spear and the spirit of St. Joseph of Arimathea appeared and celebrated mass with the three.
www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /bios/galahad.html   (372 words)

  
 GALAHAD: TEXTS, IMAGES, BASIC INFORMATION
A shorter poem by Tennyson, "Sir Galahad," presented the popular image of the perfect knight whose "strength was as the strength of ten" because his "heart is pure." The popular painting "Sir Galahad"(1862) by George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) also presents Galahad as an idealized figure.
De Beverley (Pseudonym of George Newcomen), "The Achievement of the Sangraele and the Death of Sir Galahad" (1925)
Teasdale, Sara (1884-1933), "Galahad in the Castle of the Maidens" (1911)
www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/galmenu.htm   (587 words)

  
 Sir Galahad the Pure
Raised by a group of 12 nuns, Sir Galahad was the son of Sir Lancelot.
Sir Galahad took this seat, and the circle of knights was complete.
He allowed Galahad to touch the Grail, and as he knelt to pray for his deliverance Galahad's soul was instantly released from his body; angels bore it to heaven.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/mythology/37286   (432 words)

  
 Sir Galahad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His coming is predicted in the first romance in the cycle, the Estoire del saint Graal, where he is said to be the ninth in the line of Nascien, who was baptized by Josephus, son of Joseph of Arimathea, and who was one of those who is said to have brought Christianity to Britain.
Galahad remains the pre-eminent Grail Knight in Malory's "Morte d'Arthur" and in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King".
A shorter poem by Tennyson, "Sir Galahad," presented the popular image of the perfect knight whose "strength was as the strength of ten" because his "heart is pure."
www.internationalhero.co.uk /g/galahad.htm   (440 words)

  
 The Dish of the Last Supper
He was right, for the Queste's author intended Galahad's success to be a demonstration of the superiority of Christian ideals and the inadequacy of the worldly ideals of romantic chivalry.
"Galahad, Perceval and Bors receive Mass from the Grail at the hands of the crucified Christ himself and 'it seemed as though the essence of all sweetness was housed within their bodies'."
Galahad dies and the Grail is carried up into heaven.
www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/gnosis/queste.html   (1654 words)

  
 The Miniature Horse.com: About Bond Sir Galahad
Sir Galahad was one of the most refined miniature stallions in history.
Bond's death, most of the herd was dispersed at public auction that brought people from coast to coast to bid on the two hundred plus lots.
Sir Galahad sold for a remarkable $7,000 in the sale in October of 1992 - remarkable since he was blind and 26 years old!!
www.theminiaturehorse.com /historical/bondsirgalahad.htm   (167 words)

  
 X Sir Lancelot Meets Sir Galahad, And They Part For Ever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When he woke he found near him a fair bed, with a dead lady lying on it, whom he knew to be Sir Percivale's sister, and in her hand was the tale of her adventures, which Sir Lancelot took and read.
Then Galahad saw the gentlewoman dead on the bed, and he knew her, and said he held her in great worship, and that she was the best maid in the world, and how it was great pity that she had come to her death.
All the Court was passing glad to see Sir Lancelot, and the King asked many tidings of his son Sir Galahad.
celtic-twilight.com /camelot/lang/lancelot_meets_galahad.htm   (549 words)

  
 X Sir Lancelot Meets Sir Galahad, And They Part For Ever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When he woke he found near him a fair bed, with a dead lady lying on it, whom he knew to be Sir Percivale's sister, and in her hand was the tale of her adventures, which Sir Lancelot took and read.
Then Galahad saw the gentlewoman dead on the bed, and he knew her, and said he held her in great worship, and that she was the best maid in the world, and how it was great pity that she had come to her death.
All the Court was passing glad to see Sir Lancelot, and the King asked many tidings of his son Sir Galahad.
www.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/lang/lancelot_meets_galahad.htm   (549 words)

  
 The Quest of the Holy Graal: XI: How Sir Galahad Found The Graal And Died Of That Finding
After Galahad was proclaimed King, he ordered that a coffer of gold and precious stones should be made to encompass the table of silver, and every day he and the two Knights would kneel before it and make their prayers.
As soon as Galahad was buried, Sir Percivale sought a hermitage outside the city, and put oil the dress of a hermit, and Sir Bors was always with him, but kept the dress that he wore at Court.
Also, Sir Lancelot, Galahad prayeth you to remember of this uncertain world, as you promised when you were together!' 'That is true,' said Sir Lancelot, 'and I trust his prayer may avail me.' But the prayer but little availed Sir Lancelot, for he fell to his old sins again.
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/trt/trt22.htm   (1082 words)

  
 Oil Paintings Artist R
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Galahad Bors Percival Fed with the Sanc Grael Oil Paintings
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sir Galahad at the Ruined Chapel Oil Paintings
Dante Gabriel Rossetti How Sir Galahad Sir Bors and Sir Percival Were Fed with the Sanc Grael but Sir Percival s Sister Died by the Way Oil Paintings
www.wholesaleoilpainting.com /oil-paintings-r3.htm   (4285 words)

  
 Sir Galahad rides the Green Line - The Boston Globe
Sir Galahad rides the Green Line - The Boston Globe
It was a young boy in a Sox jersey, offering her his seat, which she declined.
''My little Sir Galahad looked back at his dad, who nodded encouragingly at him, and then turned back to me with his eyes wide.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/28/sir_galahad_rides_the_green_line   (559 words)

  
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The tale of Sir Galahad from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" Sir Galahad, making his way through deep forest in the middle of a terrible thunderstorm, comes upon a dark, tall castle.
The door creaks open, and Galahad falls onto the stone floor of the castle.
Galahad: But my duty as a knight is to stop as much peril as I can.
www.serve.com /~bonzai/monty/classics/TheTaleofSirGalahad   (989 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Sir Gawain": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
King Arthur, Round Table, Middle Ages, Green Knight, Sir Lancelot, Lady of the Lake, Sir Kay, Holy Grail, Middle English, Joseph of Arimathea, Sir Galahad, Sir Bedivere, Queen Guinevere, King Mark, Sir Bors, Uther Pendragon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Green Chapel, King Pelles, Sir Gareth, Holy Land, Sir Ector, Piers Plowman, Sir Lucan, Old English
His nephew, Sir Gawain, was there, his face still bandaged from a wound given him by Gasoain of Estrangot just three weeks earlier, when...
Gawain and with Sir Bleoberis in a forest at a lodge, and either were sore wounded.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Sir-Gawain   (680 words)

  
 Sir Lancelot & Sir Galahad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sir Galahad, son of Lancelot, was considered to be the purest and most noble of all of ing Arthur's knights, including his father, Lancelot.
When Galahad appeard at Arthur's court, he was the only one who could sit at the Siege Perilous at the Round Table withought being killed.
With Percival, Galahad achieved the Holy Grail, became the Keeper of the Grail, and was taken to the Grail resting place to guard it for the future.
www.houghtonkeep.com /heraldry/arthurian/arthur2.html   (245 words)

  
 Short story - But Sir Galahad's Dead by Michael Bishop - Page 5 of 9
Sir Galahad first looked at her then at me in enquiry.
Almost as if at her command, Sir Galahad led his horse through it and disappeared.
That it was Sir Galahad who had answered the Grail knight’s question ‘Whom does the Grail serve’ with the words ‘It serves everyone’.
www.sffworld.com /authors/b/bishop_michael/fiction/butsirgalahadsdead5.html   (656 words)

  
 Internet Archive: Details: Sir Galahad
This is the first chapter of Sir Galahad’s quest to seek the Holy Grail.
It is a story that deals with the leaving of earthly loves behind in favour of the Eternal, and it is of epic proportions, featuring groundbreaking special effects, a rousing musical score, and is yet made with less than fifty bricks of lego, compared to most other big budget “Brickmation” spectacles which might use hundreds.
After a month of arduous production and fruitful post-production, Sir Galahad is ready for a world audience.
www.archive.org /details/Sir_Galahad   (94 words)

  
 Sir Galahad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The pure and stainless Knight son of Sir Launcelot du Lake and Elaine, the daughter of King Pelles.
His arrival at King Arthur's court, where he sat at the seat of the Perilous Siege, caused the Knights to set out on the Quest of the Holy Grail.
As the perfect Knight, Sir Galahad achieved the Quest and in an ecstasy of joy he desired that he should die, which request was granted unto him.
csis.pace.edu /grendel/projs2002h/table/galahad.htm   (74 words)

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