Perceval; ou, le conte du Graal

…Le Chevalier au lion; and Perceval, ou Le Conte du Graal. The non-Arthurian tale Guillaume d’Angleterre, based on the legend of St. Eustace, may also have been written by Chrétien.

…Troyes’s late 12th-century unfinished romance Perceval; ou, le conte du Graal, which introduces the guileless rustic knight Perceval, whose dominant trait is innocence and who quests for the Grail. In this poem, the religious is combined with the fantastic. In the 13th century, Robert de Boron’s verse trilogy Joseph d’Arimathie,…

…for Parzival was almost certainly Perceval; ou, le conte du Graal, an unfinished work by Chrétien de Troyes. In Parzival Wolfram claims Kyot (Kiot) of Provence is his source, but scholars have been unable to identify a historical figure by that name and generally believe Kyot to be a fabrication.…

In Chrétien de Troyes’s poem Le Conte du Graal (12th century), Perceval’s great adventure was a visit to the castle of the wounded Fisher King, where he saw a mysterious dish (or grail) but, having previously been scolded for asking too many questions, failed to ask the question that would…

…work more than the incomplete Perceval; ou, le conte du Graal, which may be the conflation of two unfinished poems. The grail, first introduced here, was to become, as the Holy Grail, a remarkably potent symbol. The verse romance genre was diversely exploited well into the 14th century, but by…

Even in Chrétien’s Perceval, ou Le Conte du Graal (“Perceval, or the Romance of the Grail”)—the work in which the Grail appears for the first time in European literature—the stress is on narrative incident interspersed with predictions of future happenings and retrospective explanations. Arthurian romances of the period…