title: From Round Table to Grail Castle: Twelve Studies in Arthurian and Grail Literature in the Light of Anthroposophy
author:  Isabel Wyatt 
description: There exist many different versions both of the stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and of the High Adventure of the Holy Grail. Frequently, they are treated as simply interesting legends. Isabel Wyatt bases her approach on the research of Rudolf Steiner. In this fascinating book, she shows how each seemingly insignificant detail of the various stories is, in fact, the earthly reflection of a spiritual reality.
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  [Chapter 1](../Text/For_the_Earls_Pleasure_split_3.html#filepos1036)
  
  He was a magnificent animal. Dark and deadly in both looks and wit. Most would
  describe Valerian Danforth, Lord Rainewood, in terms of a lean strong
  predator—a panther or a wolf. Personally, Abigail Smart found him to be the
  worst kind of bloated ass.
  
  “Stupid donkey,” she muttered as, all sinewy grace and confidence, he matched
  her step for step around the nearly empty balcony surrounding the crowded
  ballroom below.
  
  “Ill-tempered shrew,” came the lazy reply.
  
  She watched the dancers move sinuously across the parquet floor, oblivious to
  the drama that swirled above them—society ever unaware of the tension that
  gripped her around Rainewood.
  
  He made sure of that.
  
  For even though he was deliberately walking beside her, provoking her, anyone
  observing them from below would think he was merely passing her by—a gnat to
  his social Goliath.
  
  “Lousy, holier-than-thou, miserable, good