It is noticeable that Arthur himself never attempts the quest of the Grail, though it was he who had achieved its pagan original. We find in Malory four competitors for the mantle of Arthur—Sir Pelleas,[514] Sir Bors, Sir Percivale, and Sir Galahad.[515] The first of these may be put out of court at once, Sir Pelleas, who, being himself Pelles, or Pwyll, the keeper of it, could have had no reason for such exertions. At the second we may look doubtfully; for Sir Bors is no other than Emrys, or Myrddin,[516] and, casting back to the earlier British mythology, we do not find the sky-god personally active in securing boons by force or craft from the underworld. The other two have better claims—Sir Percivale and Sir Galahad. “Sir Percivale” is the Norman-French name for Peredur,[517] the hero of a story in the Red Book of Hergest[518] which gives the oldest form of a Grail quest we have. It is anterior to the Norman romances, and forms almost a connecting-link between tales of mythology and of chivalry. Peredur, or Sir Percivale, therefore, is the oldest, most primitive, of Grail seekers. On the other hand, Sir Galahad is the latest and youngest. But there is reason to believe that Galahad, in Welsh “Gwalchaved”, the “Falcon of Summer”, is the same solar hero as Gawain, in Welsh “Gwalchmei”, the “Falcon of May”.[519] Both are made, in the story of “Kulhwch and Olwen”, sons of the same mother, Gwyar. Sir Gawain himself is, in one Arthurian romance, the achiever of the Grail.[520] It is needless to attempt to choose between these two. Both have the attributes of sun-gods. Gwalchmei, the successor of Lleu Llaw Gyffes, and Peredur Paladrhir, that is to say, the “Spearman with the Long Shaft”,[521] may be allowed to claim equal honours. What is important is that the quest of the Grail, once the chief treasure of Hades, is still accomplished by one who takes in later legend the place of Lieu Llaw Gyffes and Lugh Lamhfada in the earlier British and Gaelic myths as a long-armed solar deity victorious in his strife against the Powers of Darkness. ----- Footnote 452: Tennyson’s _Idylls of the King_; _Guinevere_. Footnote 453: _Ibid._ To the Queen. Footnote 454: _Morte Darthur_, Book I, chap. X. Footnote 455: Gresholm Island, the scene of “The Entertaining of the Noble Head”. Footnote 456: _Morte Darthur_, Book XX, chap. VIII. Footnote 457: _Ibid._, Book I, chap. III. Footnote 458: _Morte Darthur_, Book I, chap. VIII. Footnote 459: _Ibid._, Book I, chap. XVI. Footnote 460: _Ibid._, Book I, chap. II. Footnote 461: _Ibid._, Book IV, chap. IV. Footnote 462: _Ibid._, Book I, chap. XXIV. Footnote 463: _Ibid._, Book I, chap. II. Footnote 464: _Ibid._, Book II, chap. XVIII. Footnote 465: _Ibid._, Book V, chap. II; Book VIII, chap. IV; Book XIX, chap. XI. Footnote 466: _Ibid._, Book XI, chap. II. Footnote 467: _Morte Darthur_, Book XI, chap. II. Footnote 468: _Ibid._, Book XVII, chap. V.