The knight was angered then; with both hands he swung his lance and gave the boy  such a blow across the shoulders with the shaft that he rocked forward over his horse’s  neck. The pain of the blow incensed the boy. He aimed straight for the knight’s eye, and  let fly his javelin so fast that the knight neither heard nor saw it; it went clean through  the eye and into the brain, and out through the nape of the neck the blood and brain  came spilling. The knight’s heart burst with agony, and he pitched over and crashed to  the ground, stone dead.

Perceval, the Story of the Grail