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