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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.
Perlesvaus, also called Li Hauz Livres du Graal (The High Book of the Grail), is an Old French Arthurian romance dating to the first decade of the 13th century. It purports to be a continuation of Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished Perceval, the Story of the Grail, but it has been called the least canonical Arthurian tale because of its striking differences from other versions.
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 ...
The Fisher King is a character in Chrétien's Perceval (1180) [5] which is the first of a series of stories and texts on the subject of Perceval and the Grail. Parzival was written in 1210 by Wolfram von Eschenbach, thirty years after Perceval. Although a different work, it is strikingly similar to Perceval. The story revolves around the Grail ...
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In Chrétien de Troyes' (unfinished) Perceval, the Story of the Grail, Blanchefleur lives near the castle of Gornemant de Goort (and is related to him; [10] she is perhaps his granddaughter [11]), where a young Perceval is educated in knightly skills, and is knighted. He is asked by Blanchefleur, who visits him at night, to help her against her ...
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 ...