Matter of Britain Document
Le Conte du Graal (Perceval)
- Summary
- Introduces the graal - a serving vessel carried in procession past a wounded king - and the bleeding lance. Perceval fails to ask whom the Grail serves. Chretien died before explaining any of it, and the whole Grail tradition is an attempt to fill the gap.
- Date
- c. 1181-1191, unfinished
- Language
- Old French
- Author
- Chretien de Troyes
Worldviews
Chretien's Courtly Romance, The Grail Made Christian
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research plus local Arthurian Studies 5 edition
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH