The Beginning of the Quest


A week and a day Sir Galahad stayed at the court. Nor was he there
many hours before he found that Yosalinde was not home as yet but
would be within the month. Yet he would not stay, for after long and
serious converse with both Merlin and Sir Launcelot, he followed the
great urge to go forward. For he felt the call now greater, more
insistent. Yet did he somewhat fret since this urge, this call seemed
to lead him nowhere, seemed only to beckon that he go.

"Fret not, lad, perhaps many a year shall you wander before you find
the Grail. Many places shall you go. Yet let not your way ever be
impatient." So spoke the Wizard.

"I go to Normandy soon, Merlin."

"You shall find me there," now spoke Sir Launcelot, "for I too go
hither to seek adventure. I pray that we meet, Galahad and that
together we have many eventful days. Though full well do I know your
way in great part, must be alone."

"That it must be," Merlin advised.

And so the next day and the next he stayed. From everyone and
everywhere great favor was his. King Arthur, too, held much converse
with him and he remembered the first days the lad had come to court
and how he had ordered the herald to send him forth for Sir Launcelot
and Gawaine.