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Sir Guy the Seeker was a knight who stumbled upon Dunstanburgh Castle whilst on his search for the Holy Grail one dark and stormy night. As he approached a warlock appeared. The warlock told him that a beautiful young lady was held captive in the castle in need of rescue. All of a sudden lightning struck the ground before Sir Guy and a giant snake appeared with venom so poisonous it melted stone. Guy put up a fight but the snake wrapped himself around Sir Guy and was about to sink his fangs into him when the Warlock cast a spell and turned the snake to dust. The brave knight rushed into the castle grounds at which point he found himself surrounded by over a hundred knights.? These were no ordinary knights however, there was no skin on their bones - This was the Army of the Dead, hollow eyes stared at him from every angle, some of them screamed at the sky in defiance. Before him on the ground lay the beautiful prisoner, a look of sheer terror on her face and her body paralyzed with fear.? Two 8 foot tall skeletal knights stood before Sir Guy, one carried the Horn of Merlin, stolen from Merlin by the evil wizard Mordred, the other carried a huge sword, some legends say it was Excalibur and others say it was a magical two handed sword sent down from Heaven.? The warlock told Guy to choose, all his instincts as a great knight told him to choose the sword and take on the undead, but he chose the horn.? The knights slowly approached, Guy blew the magical horn, and all of a sudden he was back outside the castle.? Whether he chose wrongly, or if this was his punishment for not choosing the sword and taking on this Army from Hell is unknown. His ghost can be seen still forever wandering outside the castle trying to find a way in to rescue the lady.? His cries of anguish can often be heard at midnight.



Version two: At Craster a mile long footpath leads to the extensive coastal ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, which are situated on a Whin Sill outcrop overlooking the sea. Said to be on the site of an ancient stronghold of the ancient Britons it was built in 1313, and though today a ruin it occupies the largest site of any castle in the region.According to legend, there is a secret cavern hidden beneath the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle in which a beautiful young maiden lies sleeping in a deep spell cast upon her by an evil wizard. The legend states that on a wild stormy night, many centuries ago, a young knight by the name of Sir Guy the Seeker was looking for shelter at Dunstanburgh when he was approached by the wizard. With a fierce expression and flaming hair, the wizard terrified Sir Guy, but he meant the knight no harm and instead presented him with a challenge;

"Sir Knight ! Sir Knight !

If your heart be right,

And your nerves be firm and true,

Sir Knight ! Sir Knight a beauty bright

In durance waits for you"

Sir Guy accepted the challenge and asked to be taken to the place where the young girl lay sleeping. The wizard escorted Sir Guy along a dark winding stairway. Sir Guy's heart started beating fast - was he the victim of a trick ?, could he trust the wizard to keep his promise that a young maiden lay sleeping awaiting a rescuer ?. He followed the wizard with fear.

And now they go both high and low,

Above and undergound,

And in and out, and about and about,

And round, and round, and round.

Eventually after much walking the stairway finally terminated at a great door which was bolted shut with the aid of a hideous venomous snake. Without fear the wizard removed the snake from the door which opened to reveal a huge but darkened hall. At the end of the hall lay the beautiful young maiden as the wizard had promised. She was indeed beautiful as she lay sleeping in a tomb of crystal which was guided on either side by two ugly skeleton figures, the one on the right holding a falchion bright, the one on the left holding a horn.

The Wizard explained that the young maiden's fate depended on whether he should chose the horn or the sword. After considering for much time, Sir Guy finally chose to blow the horn, but his choice proved disastrous, he fell into an immediate sleep and awoke to find himself caught once more in the storms outside Dunstanburgh Castle. As might be expected Sir Guy was to spend the rest of his life searching for the secret cave where the girl lay sleeping. Alas, it was to no avail, the unhappy knight was to die a remorseful man. The words of the old wizard haunted his mind to the very end;

"Shame on the coward who sounded a horn Ö When he might have unsheathed a sword."



See also King Arthur.