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The Holy Grail (French: Saint Graal, Breton: Graal Santel, Welsh: Greal Sanctaidd, Cornish: Gral) 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 providing eternal youth or sustenance in infinite abundance ...
The Knights of the Round Table (Welsh: Marchogion y Ford Gron, Cornish: Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, Breton: Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century. The Knights are an order dedicated to ensuring the peace of Arthur's ...
Corbenic (Carbone [c] k, Corbin) is the name of the Grail castle, the edifice housing the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. It is a magical domain of the Grail keeper, often known as the Fisher King. The castle's descriptions vary greatly in different sources, and it first appears by that name in the Lancelot-Grail cycle where it is also the ...
Religion. Christian. Origin. Corbenic. Nationality. British. Galahad (/ ˈɡæləhæd /), sometimes referred to as Galeas (/ ɡəˈliːəs /) or Galath (/ ˈɡæləθ /), among other versions of his name, is a knight of King Arthur 's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend.
Conte du Graal, Lancelot-Grail cycle, Prose Tristan, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte D'Arthur, The Once and Future King, many short Middle English romances. Another son of Lot and Morgause, father of Gingalain. Geneir Gwystyl. One of King Arthur 's knights in the Welsh Arthurian legend [ 1 ] Geraint †.
Bors (/ ˈbɔːrz /; French: Bohort) is the name of two knights in Arthurian legend, an elder and a younger. The two first appear in the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail romance prose cycle. Bors the Elder is the King of Gaunnes (Gannes/Gaunes/Ganis) during the early period of King Arthur 's reign, and is the brother of King Ban of Benoic and the ...
Percival (/ ˈpɜːrsɪvəl /, also written Perceval, Parzival, Parsifal), alternatively called Peredur (Welsh pronunciation: [pɛˈrɛdɨr]), 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 the tale Perceval, the Story of the Grail ...
The Fisher King is a character in Chrétien's Perceval (1180) [5] which is the first of a series of stories and texts on the subject of Perceval and the Grail. Parzival was written in 1210 by Wolfram von Eschenbach, thirty years after Perceval. Although a different work, it is strikingly similar to Perceval.