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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
Arthur and the Questing Beast by Henry Justice Ford (1904)
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 fancif
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
Arthur Rackham's illustration for Alfred W. Pollard's The Romance of King Arthur (1917), adapted from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur
Palamedes (Arthurian legend)
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Palamedes is a Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend. He was introduced in the 13th-century Prose Tristan and has remained prominent in other Arthurian romances, including the Post-Vulgate
Questing Beast
…Le Morte d'Arthur, the hunt for the Beast is the subject of quests futilely undertaken by King Pellinore and his family, and finally achieved by Sir Palamedes and his companions. Its name comes from the great noise that it emits from its belly (such motif seems to have originated in a symbolic dream scene in…
An illustration of Palamedes at the tournament of Soreloys
An illustration of Palamedes at the tournament of Soreloys
Le Morte d'Arthur illustration by Aubrey Beardsley: "How King Marke and Sir Dinadan heard Sir Palomides making great sarrow and mourning for La Beale
Le Morte d'Arthur illustration by Aubrey Beardsley: "How King Marke and Sir Dinadan heard Sir Palomides making great sarrow and mourning for La Beale Isoud."