The Fisher King is a figure in the Arthurian legend, the last in a long line of British kings tasked with guarding the Holy Grail. The Fisher King is both the protector and physical embodiment of his
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 bloodied head on a plate in T. W. Rolleston's Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race (1910) "Peredur had been shown these things to incite him to avenge the wrong, and to prove his fitness for the task."
Sir Balin stabs Pellam in the "Dolorous Stroke" in Lancelot Speed's illustration for James Knowles's The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights (1912) "The castle rocked and rove throughout, and all the walls fell crashed and breaking to the earth."
The Holy Grail is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature. Various traditions describe the Holy Grail as a cup, dish, or stone with miraculous healing powers, sometimes pr
Fisher King
…The Fisher King (French: Roi Pêcheur) is a figure in the Arthurian legend, the last in a long line of British kings tasked with guarding the Holy Grail. The Fisher King is both the protector and physical embodiment of his lands, but a wound renders him impotent and his kingdom barren. Unable to walk…
The Damsel of the Sanct Grael by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1874)
Galahad, Percival and Bors achieve the Grail. Tapestry woven by Morris & Co. (19th century)
Parcival Shows the Holy Grail (c. 1892–1894)
Sir Galahad, the Quest for the Holy Grail by Arthur Hughes (1870)