Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur. Sir Thomas Malory

      1 How Sir Perceval came to a recluse and asked her counsel, and how she told him that she was his aunt

      2 How Merlin likened the Round Table to the world, and how the knights who would achieve the Holy Grail would be known

      3 How Sir Perceval came to a monastery, where he found King Evelake, who was an old man

      4 How Sir Perceval saw many men of arms bearing a dead knight, and how he fought against them

      5 How a yeoman desired him to get again a horse, and how Sir Perceval’s hackney was slain, and how he got a horse

      6 Of the great danger Sir Perceval was in by his horse, and how he saw a serpent and lion fight

      7 Of that vision Sir Perceval saw, and how his vision was expounded, and of the lion

      8 How Sir Perceval saw a ship coming toward him, and how the lady of the ship told of her disinheritance

      9 How Sir Perceval promised her help, and how he required her of love, and how he was saved from the fiend

      10 How Sir Perceval for penance wounded himself in the thigh, and how she was known for the devil

      Book XV

      1 How Sir Lancelot came into a chapel, where he found dead, in a white shirt, a man of religion, a hundred winters old

      2 Of a dead man, how men would have hewn him, and it would not be, and how Sir Lancelot took the hairshirt of the dead man

      3 Of a vision that Sir Lancelot had, and how he told it to a hermit, and desired counsel of him

      4 How the hermit expounded to Sir Lancelot his vision and told him that Sir Galahad was his son

      5 How Sir Lancelot jousted with many knights, and he was taken

      6 How Sir Lancelot told his vision to a woman, and how she expounded it to him

      Book XVI

      1 How Sir Gawain was weary of the quest for the Holy Grail, and of his marvelous dream

      2 Of the vision of Sir Ector, and how he jousted with Sir Uwain, his sworn brother

      3 How Sir Gawain and Sir Ector came to a hermitage to be confessed, and how they told the hermit their visions

      4 How the hermit expounded their vision

      5 Of the good counsel the hermit gave to them

      6 How Sir Bors met with a hermit, and how he was confessed to him, and of the penance enjoined to him

      7 How Sir Bors was lodged with a lady, and how he took on him for to fight against a champion for her land

      8 Of a vision which Sir Bors had that night, and how he fought and overcame his adversary

      9 How the lady had her lands returned to her after the battle of Sir Bors, and of his departing, and how he met Sir Lionel taken and beaten with thorns, and also a maid which should have been devoured

      10 How Sir Bors left to rescue his brother, and rescued the damsel; and how it was told to him that Sir Lionel was dead

      11 How Sir Bors told his dream that he had dreamed to a priest, and of the counsel the priest gave him

      12 How the devil in a woman’s likeness would have had Sir Bors to have lain by her, and how by God’s grace he escaped

      13Of the holy communication of an abbot to Sir Bors, and how the abbot counseled him

      14 How Sir Bors met with his brother Sir Lionel, and how Sir Lionel would have slain Sir Bors

      15 How Sir Colgrevance fought against Sir Lionel to save Sir Bors, and how the hermit was slain

      16 How Sir Lionel slew Sir Colgrevance, and how after he would have slain Sir Bors

      17 How there came a voice which ordered Sir Bors not to touch him, and of a cloud that came between them

      Book XVII

      1 How Sir Galahad fought at a tournament, and how he was known by Sir Gawain and Sir Ector de Maris

      2 How Sir Galahad rode with a damsel, and came to the ship where Sir Bors and Sir Perceval were

      3 How Sir Galahad entered the ship, and of a fair bed therein, with other marvelous things, and of a sword

      4 Of the marvels of the sword and of the scabbard

      5 How King Pelles was smitten through both thighs because he drew the sword, and other marvelous histories

      6 How Solomon took David’s sword by the counsel of his wife, and of other marvelous matters

      7 A wonderful tale of King Solomon and his wife

      8 How Galahad and his fellows came to a castle, and how they fought before the castle, and how they slew their adversaries, and other matters

      9 How the three knights, with Perceval’s sister, came into the waste forest, and of a hart and four lions, and other things

      10 How they were asked to participate in a strange custom, which they would not obey, wherefore they fought and slew many knights

      11 How Sir Perceval’s sister bled a dish full of blood for to heal a lady, wherefore she died; and how that body was put in a ship

      12 How Galahad and Perceval found in a castle many tombs of maidens who had bled to death

      13 How Sir Lancelot entered into the ship where Sir Perceval’s sister lay dead, and how he met with Sir Galahad, his son

      14 How a knight brought to Sir Galahad a horse, and bade him come from his father, Sir Lancelot

      15 How Sir Lancelot went before the door of the chamber where the Holy Grail was

      16 How Sir Lancelot had lain four and twenty days and as many nights as a dead man, and other diverse matters

      17 How Sir Lancelot returned toward Logres, and of other adventures he had along the way

      18 How Galahad came to King Mordrains, and of other matters and adventures

      19 How Sir Perceval and Sir Bors met with Sir Galahad, and how they came to the Castle Corbenic, and other matters

      20 How Galahad and his fellows were fed by the Holy Grail, and how Our Lord appeared to them, and other things

      21 How Galahad anointed with the blood of the spear the maimed king, and of other adventures

      22 How they were fed by the Holy Grail while they were in prison, and how Galahad was made king

      23 Of the sorrow that Perceval and Bors made when Galahad was dead; and of Perceval, how he died, and other matters

      Book XVIII

      1 Of the joy King Arthur and the queen had of the achievement of the Holy Grail; and how Lancelot fell to his old love again

      2 How the queen commanded Sir Lancelot to avoid the court, and of the sorrow that Lancelot made

      3 How at a dinner that the queen made there was a knight poisoned, which Sir Mador laid on the queen

      4 How Sir Mador accused the queen of treason, and there was no knight who would fight for her at the first time

      5 How the queen asked Sir Bors to fight for her and how he granted this to her upon condition; and how he warned Sir Lancelot thereof

      6 How at the day Sir Bors made him ready to fight for the queen; and when he would fight how another discharged him

      7 How Sir Lancelot fought against Sir Mador for the queen, and how he overcame Sir Mador, and discharged the queen

      8 How the truth was known by the Maiden of the Lake, and of diverse other matters

      9 How Sir Lancelot rode to Astolat and received a sleeve to bear upon his helm at the request of a maid

      10 How the tourney began at Winchester, and what knights were at the jousts, and other