Knights of the Round Table
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The Knights of the Round Table are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the French-language Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century. The Knights a
The Arming and Departure of the Knights, a 19th-century Grail Quest tapestry by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and John Henry Dearle
Gustave Doré, La Marche des Chevaliers (1867)
Lancelot armed with Colgrevance's sword in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Sir Launcelot in the Queen's Chamber (1857)
Lancelot defeats Claudins while a damsel and Meliagans look on. Le Livre d'Yvain, ms. Aberystwyth, NLW, 444D (14th century)
Perceval
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Perceval, alternatively called Peredur, is a figure in the legend of King Arthur, often appearing as one of the Knights of the Round Table. First mentioned by the French author Chrétien de Troyes in t
Knights of the Round Table
…Gawain and Kay, are based on older characters from a host of great warriors associated with Arthur in the early Welsh tales. Some, such as Lancelot, Perceval and Tristan, feature in the roles of a protagonist or eponymous hero in various works of chivalric romance. Other well-known members of the Round Table…
Parsifal by Rogelio de Egusquiza (1910)
Perceval in Newell Convers Wyeth's illustration for Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur (1922)
Arthur Hacker's 1894 illustration of a scene from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, in which Perceval is tempted by a devil in the form of a beautiful woman