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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.
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 ...
The Grail is first featured in Perceval, le Conte du Graal (The Story of the Grail) by Chrétien de Troyes, [17] who claims he was working from a source book given to him by his patron, Count Philip of Flanders. [18]
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 ...
Perceval arrives at the Grail Castle to be greeted by the Fisher King in an illustration for a 1330 manuscript of Perceval, the Story of the Grail.. The Fisher King is a figure in Arthurian legend, the last in a long line of British kings tasked with guarding the Holy Grail.
For his Perceval, the Story of the Grail, the influence of the story is clearly tied to the story of Saint Galgano (Galgano Guidotti) who died in 1180–1181 and was canonized in 1185: a knight struck by god's vision, planted his sword in the ground that immediately solidified (kept in Abbey San Galgano). However, Chrétien found his sources ...
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