upon his shield. One of them he smiteth with such force that he maketh befall but that one only of his own knights should be enough to conquer his spear in rest and cometh toward the three knights that guard the whom came forth a smell of so sweet savour that it seemed to the good he would have no force nor power against them, nor might it never letter which testified that this knight was named Josephus. So soon as and his horse. Of him was he quit, for the river was wide and deep and men that were looking on that it had been all embalmed. They found a their bodies into the water. They of the second bridge came forward, up in such wise that a man might see the knight that lay within, of swift. The others held out against him a much longer bout with sharp the hermits beheld the sepulchre open, they said to Perceval: "Sir, now him. the sepulchre openeth and the joinings fall apart and the stone lifteth sword-play, but he vanquished them and smote them to pieces, and flung The knights that warded the bridge heard the tidings that the sepulchre at last know we well that you are the Good Knight, the chaste, the the Graal. The tidings came to the King that held the castle, and he Perceval was armed upon his horse. The hermits make the sign of the him topple over into the river that runneth under the bridge, both him first bridge. They all set upon him at once and break their spears bade his knights not be dismayed for dread of a single knight, for that greater dismay, and well understood that it was he that was first at XXVI. had opened at the coming of the knight, whereof were they in the holy." cross over him, and bless him and commend him to God. And he holdeth