By de Troyes Chretien
The Holy Grail has intrigued and encouraged numerous readers over the centuries because it first seemed in Chr?tien's Perceval. basically the tale of the making of a knight, either in worldly and religious phrases, it's also the resource ofsome of the main dramatic and mysterious adventures of romance. First English translation.
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Her forehead was high and white and smooth, as if it had been carved by a man’s hand from stone or wood or ivory. Her eyebrows were fine and perfectly spaced, and her eyes were bright and laughing, clear and well set; her nose was straight and smooth; and in her face the red and white made a finer blend than red and silver in heraldry. God had made in her a prodigy for stealing men’s hearts; He had never made her like before and has never done so since. When the knight saw her he greeted her, and she greeted him, as did the two knights with her.
When Clamadeus saw his enemy coming he had such wild thoughts in his head that he imagined he would empty the knight’s saddle in no time. The plain was beautiful and smooth, and no-one was there save the two of them, for Clamadeus had dismissed his men and sent them all away. Each had his lance fixed in its rest before the saddle-bow, and they charged at each 32 Chrétien de Troyes other without a challenge or wasting words. Both had the sharpest heads on their ash-wood lances, strong and fine to handle; and they charged full tilt, and the knights were strong, filled with mortal hatred; and they struck each other so hard that the wood of their shields split and their lances smashed and they brought each other down; but they both leapt up and came straight at each other, fighting with swords for a long while, and it was an even battle.
The victorious knight turned back towards the castle, while Engygeron set off to his imprisonment, giving orders that his standard should be taken down. The besieging army departed, till not a fair or a darkhaired head remained. The people of the castle poured forth to meet the knight on his return. But they were most upset that he had not taken the head of the defeated knight or brought him back to them. ’ And he replied: ‘In faith, my lords, I think that would have been most ill-advised! He’s killed your kinsmen, and I couldn’t have protected him: you’d have killed him in spite of me.
