The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur is a 1910 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. The book tells of Sir Geraint and his wife Enid, Sir Galahad and how he achieved the Holy Grail, and the death of King Arthur. It is the last of Pyle's Arthurian series. In the story, Sir Geraint, along with Queen Guinevere and her court, woke up late on a day in which King Arthur is supposed to go hunting. They go to catch up with the
Geraint son of Erbin to a "ship harbour", akin to the Viking "longphort" in Ireland. Each englyn echoes the form of the others, with greater or lesser variation. One stanza contains a mention of King Arthur and refers to him as "amerauder", or emperor. This is the first known reference to Arthur as emperor, a title used frequently in later works but absent in the early material. Geraint son of Erbin Geraint son of Erbin (Middle Welsh "Geraint uab Erbin") is a medieval Welsh poem celebrating the hero Geraint and his deeds at the Battle of Llongborth. The poem consists of three-line "englyn" stanzas