Galahad or Galaad is the son of the knight Lancelot of the Lake and Ellan, girl of the king Pellès, king Pécheur, who holds Graal. Its name comes from Welsh Gwalchaved: " falcon of été". He is the youngest knight of the Roundtable. He is the good knight , the only one who can sit down with the right-hand side of Arthur on the perilous Siège , as predicted by Merlin which had submitted it to the court of king Arthur. Accompanied by Perceval and Bohort (the young cousin of Lancelot) it will be only, at the end of the search, with being able to look inside the Holy Grail. He will die besides just after because with what he had seen, he could not live any more. He will hold it while Bohort, another knight, will pour there the blood of the Christ which was on the lance of the Roman having wounded it at the side (the Sainte Lance). His/her Lancelot father was him also in the beginning intended for the search of Graal but it was diverted search by the love which it carried to Guenièvre.

Châtel with the virgins

The exploits of Galahad are not reported, one does not know almost any of its adventures if it is not that of the “Châtel to the virgins” where Galahad overcame the seven brothers who kept captive all the ladies which had misfortune to approach the châtel. They all released them into blowing in an ivory horn. Curious children taught him later that the seven knights represented the seven deadly sins, the castle the hell, and the virgins the good souls locked up wrongly in the hells before the arrival of the saver.

The marvellous Nave

The second adventure which is told to us is that of the “marvellous Nave” in which he travelled initially in company of That-which-never--lied, Bohort and Perceval. It found during this voyage the sword that Solomon had manufactured for itself. The Nave guided them towards a kingdom where That-which-never--lied sacrificed its life for a leprous queen in spite of the savage resistance of the three knights.

According to the will of That-which-never--lied, although mortified, Galahad, Perceval and Bohort, deposited the corpse of the young girl in the Nave which from went away like a floating tomb. Later, Galahad found the Nave and had the surprise to find his/her father, Lancelot of the Lake, on board. Father and wire spent 6 months whole to sail on the Nave until Galahad unloads to achieve its Destiny and to find the Graal.

The sword of Galahad

The sword of Galahad, that which it found in the marvellous Nave, had been manufactured by Solomon on the councils of his wife when this one learned that the best knight of the world would be one of his descendants. “The pommel was of only one stone which had all the colors of the ground, and each one of these colors had its virtue. The handle was made of two coasts: one of the snake named papaguste which saw Célidoine and which has this gift that one never does not feel a too hot summer days when one tightens one of the bones in his hand, whatever the heat of the sun or fire; the second coast was of a small fish named Ottonax which lives in the Euphrate river and whose virtue is such: who holds one of his bones forgets any joy or pain passed, and remembers only the reason that it had to take it”

The sword is entirely engraved in glyphe red blood on the pommel and the blade:

I am marvellous to see, more marvellous to know, because no one cannot me empoigner, for large which was its hand, except that for which I am intended.

That no one is so bold only to draw me from the sleeve if it can better strike and more boldly only very other, or it will die about it.

The Renges of the sword were special: That-which-never--lied made them aves its own hair.

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