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Perceval, the Story of the Grail (French: Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) is the unfinished fifth verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes, written by him in Old French in the late 12th century. Later authors added 54,000 more lines to the original 9,000 in what are known collectively as the Four Continuations , [ 1 ] as well as other related texts.
In another of Chrétien's romances, Cligés, Perceval is a "renowned vassal" who is defeated by the knight Cligés in a tournament. [2] He then becomes the eponymous protagonist of Chrétien's final romance, Perceval, the Story of the Grail. [3] In the Welsh romance Peredur son of Efrawg, the corresponding figure goes by the name Peredur.
In Mons 331/206, the text is grouped together with the so-called Bliocadran prologue, Chrétien's Perceval and three Continuations of Chrétien's poem. [1] In its received form, the text presents serious difficulties to modern scholars, containing many corrupt forms and readings such as may have been miscopied or wrongly interpreted by a scribe ...
In the 12th century, Chrétien de Troyes’ poem “Perceval, the Story of the Grail” is a romp including King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, a chivalrous quest, a bloody lance ...
Sir Perceval of Galles was probably written in the northeast Midlands of England in the early 14th century, [1] [2] and tells a markedly different story to either Chretien's tale or to Robert de Boron's early 13th-century Perceval. [3] Found in only a single manuscript, and told with a comic liveliness, it omits any mention of a graal or a ...
Merlin ' s story relates to Robert's two other reputed Grail poems, Joseph d'Arimathie and Perceval. [1] Its motifs became popular in medieval and later Arthuriana, notably the introduction of the sword in the stone, the redefinition of the Grail, and turning the previously peripheral Merlin into a key character in the legend of King Arthur. [1 ...
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