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
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)
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Perceval, alternatively called Peredur, is a figure in the legend of King Arthur, often appearing as one of the Knights of the Round Table. First mentioned by the French author Chrétien de Troyes in t
Perceval, the Story of the Grail
…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, the story breaks off and follows an adventure of Gawain of similar length, that also remains incomplete. Later authors added 54,000 more lines to the…
Parsifal by Rogelio de Egusquiza (1910)
Perceval in Newell Convers Wyeth's illustration for Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur (1922)
Arthur Hacker's 1894 illustration of a scene from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, in which Perceval is tempted by a devil in the form of a beautiful woman