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Designing the End of History in the Arming of Galahad
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 5, Number 4, Winter 1995
- pp. 45-55
- 10.1353/art.1995.0010
- Article
- Additional Information
This article analyzes Galahad's swords in La queste del saint graal as synecdoches of the chivalric function, which in the course of the narrative moves from an Arthurian to a celestial allegiance; Solomon's wife and Perceval's sister construct the signs of this transformation.