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  2. Perceval, the Story of the Grail - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Percival - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Fisher King - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Holy Grail - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Sir Perceval of Galles - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. They all say they’ve got the Holy Grail. So who’s right?

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    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 ...

  8. Percival's sister - Wikipedia

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    Percival's sister is a role of two similar but distinct characters in the Holy Grail stories within the Arthurian legend featuring the Grail hero Percival (Perceval). The first of them is named Dindrane, the second is usually unnamed and is known today as the Grail heroine.

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