2024/01/01

I AM A KNIGHT

 

“Who are you then?” “I am a knight”

“Of such I know not, not a sight

Of one”, said the youth, “nor word

Of any such, have I seen or heard;

Yet you are handsomer than God.

If only I, who go ill-shod,

Were made like you, and shone so bright!”

 

 

                                             

 

Scene no 61: King Arthur riding (MM no 63, King Arthur animated toy, friction drive, made in Hong Kong) in front of young Perceval and a red knight (Heye Art.-Nr.29734, Inside Neuschwanstein, Parzival, puzzle made in Germany).

The text: Lines from PERCEVAL by Chretien de Troyes.