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Educated at Tottenham County School and the London School of Economics, Knight saw action with the Special Operations Executive in North Africa during the Second World War. [1] After service with the Control Commission for Austria he joined Courtaulds where he became Finance Director in 1961, Deputy Chairman in 1970 and Chairman in 1975.
Conte du Graal, Lancelot-Grail cycle, Prose Tristan, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte D'Arthur, The Once and Future King, many short Middle English romances: Another son of Lot and Morgause, father of Gingalain Geneir Gwystyl One of King Arthur's knights in the Welsh Arthurian legend [1] Geraint† Geraint and Enid: Enid's lover ...
Arthur George Knight (1886–1918), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross; Arthur Gerald Knight (1895–1916), Canadian World War I fighter ace; Arthur Rex Knight (1903–1963), Australia-born psychologist; Arthur F. Knight (1865–1936), American inventor credited with invention of steel golf clubs; Arthur Knight (businessman) (1917–2003 ...
Arthur's Knights II: The Secret of Merlin (French: Les Chevaliers d'Arthur: Chapitre 2 - Le Secret de Merlin) is a 2001 adventure video game, developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Wanadoo Edition. Arthur's Knights II: The Secret of Merlin follows 2000's Arthur's Knights: Tales of Chivalry. The player takes the role of a knight of King ...
The other concerns the quests of the various knights to achieve the Holy Grail; some succeed (Galahad, Percival), and others fail. The Arthurian tales have been changed throughout time, and other characters have been added to add backstory and expand on other Knights of the Round Table. The medieval legend of Arthur and his knights is full of ...
[2]: xi His enthusiasm for Arthur is apparent in the work. The book was left unfinished at his death, and ends with the death of chivalry in Arthur's purest knight, Lancelot of the Lake. [2]: Chase Horton, Appendix, p. 296. Steinbeck took a "living approach" to the retelling of Malory's work.
Though the Round Table is not mentioned in the earliest accounts, tales of King Arthur having a marvellous court made up of many prominent warriors are ancient. Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Historia Regum Britanniae (composed c. 1136) says that, after establishing peace throughout Britain, Arthur "increased his personal entourage by inviting very distinguished men from far-distant kingdoms to ...
Eventually, in the cycle's finale Vulgate Mort Artu, when Arthur is at the brink of death, he enigmatically orders his surviving knight Griflet to cast Excalibur into a nearby lake. After two failed attempts to deceive Arthur, since Griflet felt that such a great sword should not be thrown away, he finally does comply with the wounded king's ...