Three of them said they were from Gaul, three from Ireland, and three from Denmark.
Upon that a voice said, “Let those among you who are not in quest of the Holy Grail depart.” So King Pelleas and his son and niece departed.
As the knights sat waiting, it seemed to them that there appeared a man from heaven, before the table on which the Holy Grail was, and they saw letters in his forehead which said:
“This is Joseph, the first bishop of Christendom, whom our Lord rescued in the city of Sarras.”
With him were angels who bore a spear which bled marvelously.
Then the knights wondered, for Joseph had died more than three hundred years before.
“Oh, knights,” said he, “wonder not, for at one time I was an earthly man. Now shall ye have such food as never knights tasted.”
When he had said this, he and the angels vanished, and they sat there in great dread. Then they looked and saw, as it were, another man enter who said:
“My knights and my servants who are come out of this earthly life, ye shall now see a part of my secrets and my hidden things.” Then he took the holy vessel and proffered it to Sir Galahad, who kneeled down and partook; and so after him all the knights.
“Galahad,” said he, “dost thou know what I hold in my hands?”