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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 2489052" data-attributes="member: 607">103 - Sir Galahad<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Galahad.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Sir Galahad was one of the knights of King Arthur's Round Table in Arthurian legend. He was the bastard son of Sir Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic, and he was renowned for his gallantry and purity.According to legend, Galahad was one of only three knights to find the Holy Grail (the others being Percival and Bors). After finding the Grail, Galahad is said to have been taken to heaven in divine standing.Sir Galahad's conception comes about when Lady Elaine magically disguises herself as Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot's true love, and tricks him into bed. Ashamed of what had happened, Sir Lancelot abandons the child and his mother to go off on foreign adventures. Galahad is placed in the care of his great aunt, the abbess at a nunnery, and is raised there.Galahad was Lancelot's original name, but it had been changed when he was a child. The son was prophecied to surpass his father in valor and achieve the Holy Grail.Upon reaching adulthood, Galahad is reunited with his father, who knights him. He is then brought to King Arthur's court at Camelot during the feast of Pentecost. Without realising the danger he was putting himself in, Sir Galahad walks over to the Round Table amidst the revelry and takes his seat at the Siege Perilous. This place had been kept vacant for the sole person who would accomplish the quest of the Holy Grail; for anyone else sitting there, it would prove to be immediately fatal. Needless to say, Sir Galahad survives the event, which is witnessed by King Arthur and his knights. The king then asks the young knight to perform a test which involves pulling a sword from a stone. This he accomplishes with ease, and King Arthur swiftly proclaims Sir Galahad to be the greatest knight in the world. He is promptly invited to join the Order of the Round Table, and after a visit from the Holy Grail, the quest to find the famous object is set.</blockquote>

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