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 to Aneirin. Geraint was one of the "Three Seafarers of the Isle of Britain" according to the Welsh Triads. The "Elegy for Geraint" is a sixth century poem found in the "Black Book of Carmarthen", in praise of Geraint, a Dumnonian king, who fell during the conflict with the Saxons. The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" says: "Port and his two sons, Bieda and Maegla, came to Britain at the place called Portsmouth, and slew a young Welshman, a very noble man." Scholars believe that the Llongborth mentioned in the poem is, in fact, the Portsmouth of the Chronicle entry and that Geraint