Galahad

n. rescuer; honorable person; legendary knight from the time of King Arthur

Sir Galahad is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. He is the bastard son of Sir Lancelot and Elaine of Carbonek, and is renowned for his gallantry and purity. He is perhaps the knightly embodiment of Jesus in the Arthurian legends. He first appears in the Lancelot-Grail cycle, and his story is taken up in later works such as the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
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Noun
1. (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail
(synonym) Sir Galahad
(hypernym) fictional character, fictitious character, character
(classification) Arthurian legend

n. Galahad, rescuer; honorable person; legendary knight from the time of King Arthur

[Arthurian] Son of Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic. Pelles the Grail-keeper is her father. Pelles orchestrates by magical means the sexual encounter between his daughter and Lancelot by making her appear to him as Guinevere. He does this in order to insure that the destined Grail-achiever would carry the blood of Joseph of Arimathea. Upon coming of age, Galahad comes to court where several signs reveal him to be this destined knight. He is the only one capable of sitting in the Siege Perilous and he can withdraw a sword, fixed by Merlin long ago, from a block of stone. Galahad is named first in the Vulgate Cycle though foreshadowed in the Perlesvaus. Though valorous and attractive, his overriding attribute is his chastity - absolutely essential for attainment of the Grail and why Lancelot, though noble in so many ways, can never succeed in the Quest. But he succeeds, in a way, through his son. Galahad has many adventures on the Quest, finally attaining his vision in Sarras and dying. In mediev...
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