THUS have I told you the story of Sir Geraint and of Lady Enid at this, its fitting time.
Of the story, how it hath been sung of old.
This story has been very often sung and told and so you have no doubt heard of it or read it before this. For it hath been told by a great poet, and it hath been told by the ancient bards of Wales, and both that great poet and I have obtained it from those ancient chronicles of the Welsh Mabinogi.
But as this story concerns the story of King Arthur and his court, so it must be written when it cometh in its due place and so I have written it.
So I pray you read it and consider it as a very famous story of one of the chiefest knights of the Round Table of King Arthur.
And now I shall have to tell you of the coming of Sir Galahad and of the Quest of the Grail by certain of the Knights of King Arthur and his Round Table, and of how certain other knights failed in that quest. So if you will read that which followeth you shall be informed of all those very wonderful things which many people for many years believed to be sooth and real.
