Holy Grail
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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
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)
Perceval, the Story of the Grail is an unfinished Arthurian verse romance written by Chrétien de Troyes in Old French during the late 12th century. Starting as the eponymous tale of the young Perceval
Holy Grail
…as a "holy grail" by those seeking such. A mysterious "grail" (Old French: graal or greal), wondrous but not unequivocally holy, first appears in Perceval, the Story of the Grail, an unfinished chivalric romance written by Chrétien de Troyes around 1190. Chrétien's story inspired many continuations, translators and interpreters…
Perceval arrives at the hermitage in a 15th-century illustration of Perceval
The story's scene of Gawain on the Perilous Bed (Gauvain au lit périlleux) engraved in a 14th-century ivory
The opening lines of the 14-century Welsh-language Peredur from the Red Book of Hergest (Jesus College, Oxford MS 111)