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The Round Table
The names of the 25 knights inscribed on the Winchester Round Table are given as: • King Arthur, Sir Galahad, Sir Lancelot du Lac, Sir Gawain, Sir Percivale, Sir Lionell, Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Kay, Sir Tristram de Lyones, Sir Gareth, Sir Bedivere, Sir Bleoberis, La Cote Male Taile, Sir Lucan, Sir Palomedes, Sir Lamorak, Sir Safir, Sir Pelleas, Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Dagonet, Sir Degore, Sir Brunor le Noir, Le Bel Desconneu, Sir Alymere, and Sir Mordred.
Arthurian legend also contains reference to lesser Orders: the Table of Errant (Wandering) Companions, the Queen's Knights, the Knights of the Watch, and the Table of Lesser Known (Valued) Knights.
( Opening paragraph fron an irish tale the Story of the Crop Eared Dog ) King Arthur, the son of Uther,the son of Ambrosius, the son of Constantine, convened a great hunt in the Dangerous Forest on the Plain of Wonders. Never in all the world was such a gathering brought together. More warriors and women, singers and poets,musicians and servants were there than there are joints in the human body, or days in the year, or plants on the earth. There were the twelve knights of the round table, the twelve knights of council, the twelve knights of activity, the two hundred and two score knights of the Great Table, and the seven thousand knights of the royal household. |
