King_Arthur

Sir Lancelot smiled at his son but said nothing.
King Arthur made Galahad a knight and they all sat down at the Round Table.
Suddenly they heard a loud noise. Then there was a great white light.
They looked up and saw a gold cup above the table. What was it? Where did it come
from? And then suddenly it was not there!
Nobody spoke. Then Sir Galahad said, ’That is the Grail,* and it is in this country! I will
go out and look for it. I will come back when I find it.’
‘We will go with you,’ said Sir Lancelot, Sir Cors and Sir Percivale.
King Arthur was very sad. He looked round the Round Table at his knights. Then he
spoke to them.
‘We were brothers, but this will be the end of our Round Table. You are leaving and I
will not see you again.’
The four knights got on their horses and left Camelot. For many years they looked for
the Grail but they found nothing.
Other knights also left and looked for the Grail. Nobody found it and some knights never
came back to Camelot. The Round Table was different now, and King Arthur was very
sad.
After many years Sir Galahad, Sir Percivale and Sir Bors came to a place near the sea.
They looked down and saw a ship. It was evening, but white light shone from the ship.
‘I know that we are going to find the Grail,’ said Sir Galahad.
They went down to the sea and onto the ship. There, on a table, was the Grail. They
were all very excited.
‘Look!‘ cried Sir Galahad. ‘Here is the Grail! Now we can end our journey.’
The knights were all very tired and they fell asleep. The ship went out to sea. The next
morning, when the knights woke up, they were near a great city.
‘We have to take the Grail into the city,’ said Sir Galahad. So they took the Grail and left
the ship.
There was no king in that country, because the dead king had no son. The great men sat
in the castle and thought about the problem.
When King Arthur’s knights arrived at the castle with the Grail, everybody was excited.
Then an old man came into the castle. He had white clothes and white hair. The knights
knew him when they saw him.
‘These three knights are here at the end of a long journey,’ said the old man, ‘and they
have the Grail. Take the youngest knight, a very brave man, and make him your king.’
* The Grail: A gold cup. Jesus used it before he died.