A Review of Quest of the Holy Grail Part III

Today's post will cover chapters three and four of The Quest for the Holy Grail. I will first lists the plots of these chapters before sharing my personal thoughts.
 In Chapter Three of The Quest for the Holy Grail Galahad and Melias come to an abbey. A monk of the abbey promises to heal Melias's Wound. He tells the two knights that the devil did desire Melias's downfall. After all this, Melias gives Galahad permission to continue on the quest as he stays behind.
Galahad journeys off and finds a chapel in the mountain where he prays. He is told by a voice to to the castle of the maidens and sweep away its evil.An old man on the road tells Galahad though that the castle of the maidens is cursed. Despite the warning to not go hither, Galahad does anyways and fights off attackers at the bridge to the castle without killing any of them. A White haired man then hands Galahad the keys to the castle. The maidens rejoice that Galahad has saved them.
 With the battle over, the maidens of the castle strip Galahad of his weapons. The White haired man that gave Galahad the keys to the castle is revealed to be a priest. Galahad asks this priest how the maidens came to be captive and the priest responds telling a long story how this became son.
 The knights that Galahad had vanished had previously asked the former duke of the castle to let them in. Foolishly, the duke did so, and later at dinner a quarrel erupted. The lord of the castle along with one of his sons are then killed and his eldest daughter is taken prisoner. These invading knights then take over all the land and seize the treasure of the castle.
 When the story told by the priest is done, Galahad asks if the woman that was the eldest daughter of the duke is still alive, to which he is answered that she is not. Galahad restores the castle to the woman's younger sister however. Galahad then learns that the seven brothers that had taken the fortress have been killed in battle by fighting Gawain and other Arthurnian knights. Next, Galahad returns to his weapons and to his journey. 
 So ends the third chapter of The Quest for the Holy Grail. The fourth chapter then switches to the whereabouts of Sir Gawain and his company of knights.
 In Chapter Four of  The Quest of the Holy Grail, it tells us that Gawain had seen nothing spectacular previously to his fight with the seven brothers in battle. Before this battle Gawain had came across the same abbey that Galahad had went too, and learned of all that Galahad and learned and experienced from there. He then asks the monks the road that Galahad took and takes it himself. He then later finds the abbey where Melias was wounded from battle. He and the knights crossed ways with the seven brothers at the castle of the maidens. Here, the two companies fight in battle until three of the seven brothers are killed in the first joust of the fight. Gawain and his company then finish the rest off by blade.
 The story then shows us that Gawain meets up with a priest at a chapel where the knight takes refuge. Gawain is rebuked here by the priest for having killed the seven brothers. The priest makes mention of the fact that Galahad was not as rash with the sword as was Gawain for Galahad had defeated the seven brothers in battle without spilling unnecessary bloodshed.  The chapter then ends with Gawain returning to his journey while switching back again to Galahad for the fifth chapter.
 So ends the fifth chapter of The Quest for the Holy Grail.

My thoughts of these chapters are chiefly that none should be quick with the sword to execute vengeance. Also, that Hollywwood's portrayal of this story or any Arthurnian piece of literature, is often quite different from the original work! 
 Galahad is truly in every way a character for all Christian men to emulate. His fruits of the spirit are many, and his holiness is rich and deep. Those characteristics alone are avenues and callings for us to live up too.