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Bedivere

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Bedivere

In British legend, one of King Arthur's closest companions, and the last knight of the Round Table. He carried Arthur's body to the barge which was to take him to Avalon after the last battle, and threw the sword Excalibur back into the lake.
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Exactly as I would speak of my nearest personal friends or enemies, or my most familiar neighbors, he spoke of Sir Bedivere, Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Launcelot of the Lake, Sir Galahad, and all the other great names of the Table Round -- and how old, old, unspeakably old and faded and dry and musty and ancient he came to look as he went on
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
He provides Arthur with a father, King Uther, makes of Arthur's wars against the Saxons only his youthful exploits, relates at length how Arthur conquered almost all of Western Europe, and adds to the earlier story the figures of Merlin, Guenevere, Modred, Gawain, Kay, and Bedivere.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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