Ystin attempts to reason with Galahad, but he is beyond her reach and mercilessly attacks her.

Ystin pleads with Galahad one last time, before resolving that her mentor and the man she loves is truly gone.

With tears in her eyes, Ystin vows to come after Gloriana and exact revenge.

This new Shining Knight is also named Sir Justin ( in the story, the knights of Camelot speak Welsh, so sometimes the Welsh equivalent " Ystin " is used ) and has a winged horse but is much more out of place in the modern age.

Back at Castle Revolving, Gloriana reveals that Ystin is not the last of the Knights: in the final days of the Age of Camelot, the Sheeda kidnapped Galahad and broke his spirit, remaking him as a degenerate brute.

Gloriana then leaves Galahad to torture Ystin into joining the Sheeda side.

Suddenly, as the clock strikes midnight, Friday reveals that she is really the Sheeda-Queen, and promptly incapacitates Ystin before poisoning Helligan.

Ystin is clearly a Celtic mythology version of the original Shining Knight ( who was based more on the quasi-medieval setting of Sir Thomas Malory ).

Unbeknownst to Galahad, Ystin is actually a girl who is in love with him.

Ystin comes from about 8, 000 BC, long before the 6th century Camelot of Sir Justin.

Ystin, a long-haired ' schoolboy ' of Camelot, is knighted and dubbed the Shining Knight by Sir Galahad, just before the fall of Camelot.

Ystin breaks free, steals Excalibur, and escapes from the Castle-only to fall to earth in modern Los Angeles, some 10, 000 years later.

Guilt taunts Ystin, saying that if Ystin had not run away, the war might have been won.

However, when Ystin saves a homeless man from some thugs, Guilt evaporates.

Ystin, newly enlightened, seeks out the police.

For the Sheeda-Queen's twisted amusement, Ystin and Galahad are made to duel each other.

Just then, the Queen gets a whiff of Ystin's menstrual blood and reveals that Ystin is really a girl.

With one mighty strike, Ystin kills Galahad.

They had winged over the Adriatic, they had taken Bari by complete surprise and now they were battering her, attacking with deadly skill.

In the first, Frances and the Leaping Fairy, Frances is shown in profile with a winged fairy close by her nose.

Dionysos greeting Ariadne with her sacred serpent, in the sacred grove for their marriage, symbolized by the winged cherub with a nuptial torch, in the presence of his foster-father, Silenus

Medusa, one of the Gorgons, has two children with Poseidon: the winged horse Pegasus and giant Chrysaor, at the instant of her decapitation by Perseus.

Nephele, or her spirit, appeared to the children with a winged ram whose fleece was of gold.

Anteros, with Eros, was one of a host of winged love gods called Erotes, the ever-youthful winged gods of love, usually depicted as winged boys in the company of Aphrodite or her attendant goddesses.

The Nike on her outstretched right hand is winged ; whether there was a support under it in Phidias ' original has been much discussed ; evidence in surviving versions is contradictory.

Tina L. Jens, however, depicted Cthylla as a giant, winged octopus in her short story " In His Daughter's Darkling Womb " ( 1997 ).

Catherine Deshayes, " La Voisin ", 17th-century print of her portrait held by a winged devil.

The character of Betelgeuse — envisioned by McDowell as a winged demon who takes on the form of a short Middle Eastern man — is also intent on killing the Deetzes rather than scaring them, and wants to rape Lydia instead of marry her.

Throughout history, she has chosen various women on Earth to serve as her host, each of whom are joined in battle by numerous winged soldiers known as Angelus Warriors.

It is one of the best examples of High Middle Ages architecture in northern Italy ; it now hosts, after a decade-long renovation, the City Museum, with a rich Roman section ; one of the masterpieces is the bronze statue of a winged Victory, originally probably a Venus, converted in antiquity into the Victory by adding the wings ; it is said to be in the act of writing the winner's name on her shield ( now lost ).

When Hastor kidnaps Shiera, using a magic spell to draw her to his lair, Hall uses his newly-refound memories to craft a gravity-defying belt using Nth metal and a winged costume to become Hawkman.

She looks a bit like the winged monkeys from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or the Tengu of Japanese mythology, travels on a flying " boomerangstick " and is proud of the fact that people are scared of her, but seems to have self-confidence issues ( until the end of the episode, anyway ) and turned out to not be so scary once the gang got to know her ( although she dissuaded them from telling anyone ).

When Perseus beheaded her, Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a golden sword-wielding giant, sprang from her body.

When Adora uses her sword to change into She-ra, Spirit ( an ordinary horse ) also changes into Swiftwind, a winged unicorn.

The winged girl refuses to let go of the hands of her rescuers, and the three of them presumably fall to their deaths.

Melling said that on April 17, 1976, his two daughters, 12-year-old June and her 9-year-old sister, Vicky, were walking through the woods near Mawnan church when they saw a large winged creature hovering above the church tower.

Saving her from deaths are other women on winged horses.

Danielle seemingly loses her winged horse Brightwind in the battle, which concludes in Odin's very bedroom.

Her outfit is pretty much the same as her mother's, except that she does not possess either the tiara or the Magic Lasso of Aphrodite, instead possessing the winged sandals of Hermes.

He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

`` I'm General Burnside's horse, upside down '', Arlene said, sort of gaspingly, for her: even she had to breathe kind of funny when she was in that position.

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

And when they had drawn back a step he added: `` Jones is sitting on his horse right in front of her.

The reader meets a few old friends like Blimp and the TUC horse, and becomes better acquainted with new members of the cast of characters like the bomb itself, and civilization in her classic robe watching the nuclear arms race, her hair standing straight out.

Alexander died in a fall from his horse in the dark while riding to visit the queen at Kinghorn in Fife on 18 March 1286 because it was her birthday the next day.

Rhett rides his horse around town with Bonnie in front of him, but the household mammy, " Mammy ," insists it is not fitting for a girl to ride a horse with her dress flying up.

No one was permitted to whip a horse or a slave, but she felt that a lick every now and then did her boys no harm.

In her three-headed representations, discussed above, Hecate often has one or more animal heads, including cow, dog, boar, serpent and horse.

Steve instantly gallops after Mary and rescues her from the out of control horse.

Escorting her through the forest towards the final brook-crossing, the Knight recites a long poem of his own composition, and repeatedly falls off his horse — his clumsiness is a reference to the " eccentric " L-shaped movements of chess knights, and may also be interpreted as a self-deprecating joke about Lewis Carroll's own physical awkwardness and stammering in real life.

In October 2005, she attended the Melbourne Cup Week in Australia, and one of the horse racing stakes was named after her: The Stevie Nicks Plate.

In leading her army, she displayed significant prowess: she was an able horse rider and would walk three or four miles with her foot soldiers.

The early part is rich in anecdotal stories, among which are the arrival of the three Varangian brothers, the founding of Kiev, the murder of Askold and Dir, the death of Oleg, who was killed by a serpent concealed in the skeleton of his horse, and the vengeance taken by Olga, the wife of Igor, on the Drevlians, who had murdered her husband.

Inspired by the amateur jockey Lord Mildmay, she developed an interest in horse racing, particularly steeplechasing, that continued for the rest of her life.

According to witnesses, Richeza had a small and graceful stature ; her collarbone showed traces of a fracture, which may have been caused by falling from a horse.

Tortures included the chevalet, in which an accused witch sat on a pointed metal horse with weights strung from her feet.

She was barred from horse riding by her father, but she would later learn the basics for the sake of her Hungarian coronation ceremony.

" after falling from her horse at the Badminton Horse Trials, although possibly this was self-censorship by the reporters and she actually used " Fuck off!

On the day she gave her famous speech he walked beside her horse bare-headed.