. Tales of the Round table; based on the tales in the Book of romance. my I could live I would destroy that unhappycastle, and the Knight whose treachery hasbrought me to this. Alas! brother, said Balan, had youkilled me it would only have been to makeyourself a captive, for I have been forced toguard this castle ever since I slew the Knightwho kept it before me. The lady of the castle and her companionsthen came forward and made great moan overthe dying Knights. Balan begged her to burythem side by side where they lay, and this shepromised to do, weeping with her ladies as shegave the
. Tales of the Round table; based on the tales in the Book of romance. my I could live I would destroy that unhappycastle, and the Knight whose treachery hasbrought me to this. Alas! brother, said Balan, had youkilled me it would only have been to makeyourself a captive, for I have been forced toguard this castle ever since I slew the Knightwho kept it before me. The lady of the castle and her companionsthen came forward and made great moan overthe dying Knights. Balan begged her to burythem side by side where they lay, and this shepromised to do, weeping with her ladies as shegave the promise. The Knights died, and the lady placed atomb over their grave, and upon it she wroteBalans name only, for she did not know thename of the other Knight. But Merlin knew, and the next morning hewrote Balins name upon the tomb also. Thenhe imscrewed the pommel of Balins sword, andscrewing another pommel on it, bade the Knightwho was with him handle it. The Knight couldnot, and Merlin said, No man but the best manin the world shall handle that sword, and he will. LANCQ-OT AT THE CHAPEL ^ IV. [See p. 83.) OF THE UfSHVERSITY TEE QUESTING BEAST. 17 be either Sir Lancelot or his son Sir that sword also Sir Lancelot will slaythe man he loves best, and his name is SirGawaine. He wrote these words on the pommel ofthe sword. He then made a bridge of steel to the island,six inches in breadth, over which no man whowas guilty of any evil deed could pass. The scabbard of the sword he left on thatside of the island, so that Sir Galahad shouldfind it. The sword itself he put in a magicstone which floated down the stream to the same day Galahad found the scabbard,and riding to Camelot he spied the stone anddrew the sword from it. THE QUESTING BEAST Part I King Arthur fought and won many a battle before he was acknowledged by the other Kings of the country to be lord of them all. Many times the course he pursued was that directed by Merlin the magician, without
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