Neil Philip Quotes

“The Round Table has collapsed into warring factions. Arthur and Gawain are besieging the man who used to be their closest friend, Lancelot.”

“And above it he saw, he thought, a crowned king nailed to a cross with a spear thrust in his side.”

“As his anxious brain circles around this terrible truth, Sir Gawain tells his young squire the story of the rise and fall of the ‘fairest fellowship of noble knights that ever served a Christian king’, as seen through his own eyes.”

“Some say he will come again to save us from ourselves, but how or when that is to be I do not know.”

“The boy was brought up by one Sir Ec’tor and was called his son. When Arthur had grown old enough to be a squire, the throne of Britain became vacant.”

“In the churchyard there was seen a great stone wherein was an anvil. In the anvil was a sword and about it was written in letters of gold, ‘Whoso pulleth this sword from this stone and anvil is right wise king born of all England.“‎

“The two maidens passed once more before the table, and to Sir Gawain it seemed that there were three; and looking up it appeared to him that the Grail was high up in the air.”

“He tells of Arthur’s boyhood, and what happened when the young king drew the magic sword from the stone and claimed his kingdom; of his own adventure with the supernatural Green Knight.”

“Sir Gawain tells his young squire the story of the rise and fall of the ‘fairest fellowship of noble knights that ever served a Christian king’, as seen through his own eyes. ”