BLACK KNIGHT

       Protection from white, first strike  

Battle doesn’t need a purpose; the

battle is its own purpose. You don’t

ask why a plague spreads or a field

burns. Don’t ask why I fight.

 

 

                                    

                                                     

Scene no 32: The Black Knight rides alone (Timpo toys, White Tower coat of arms, one of the 8 different figures from the mounted Knights of the Middle Ages, No. 925 series).

The text: From the card Black Knight. A single individual card from the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.

GERMAN KNIGHTS

Upon a deep green Achmardi

She bore the pride of Paradise,

Root and branch, beyond all price.

That was a thing men call the Grail,

Which makes all earthly glory pale.

           

 

 

 

Scene no 31: German Knights (Del Prado toy soldiers) in front of the ruins of a Church (Noch HO Scale toys, 58606). Wolfram von Eschenbach in the middle. Schenk von Limburg in the left. In the right, a knight who bears the arms of a member of the von Mallinckrodt family of Westphalia.

The Text: Verses from PARZIVAL, a Knightly Epic, by Wolfram von Eschenbach. The greatest work of Germany's greatest medieval poet.