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A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. It serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical. Tales of quests figure
The Quest of the White Hart (1912), an Arthurian illustration by F. A. Fraser
Soria Moria by Theodor Kittelsen: a hero glimpses the end of his quest
Questing Beast
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The Questing Beast, or the Beast Glatisant, is a cross-animal monster appearing in many medieval texts of the Arthurian legend and modern works inspired by them. In the French prose cycles, and conseq
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…meant "roving" or "wandering". Thomas Malory collected many quests from the Arthurian legend in Le Morte d'Arthur, including that of the eponymous Questing Beast. The most famous of them — perhaps in all of western literature — is the great Grail Quest. This tale exists in multiple variants, telling stories of…
Arthur and the Questing Beast by Henry Justice Ford (1904)
An anatomically-incorrect giraffe as depicted in an Arabic illustration from the 13th-century, contemporary to the French texts introducing the fanciful Questing Beast
Arthur Rackham's illustration for Alfred W. Pollard's The Romance of King Arthur (1917), adapted from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur