![]() ![]() Percevals venture, the true test of his knighthood, ends without conclusion the death of author Chrtien de Troyes left unsaid and undetermined the success of Percevals quest. Distraught, the knight begins a new quest for the Grail, a journey on the road of penitence and faith. ![]() ![]() Paralyzed by his first glimpse of the Grail, Perceval fails to save the ailing king. Clines translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately ornate nature of medieval French, follows Perceval from his home in Wales, through his rich and raucous adventures as a member of the fraternity of knights, to his climactic meeting with the Fisher King. Book Synopsis In this verse translation of Perceval or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail. ![]() Her translation, faithful to the deliberately ornate nature of medieval French, follows Perceval from his home in Wales, through his rich and raucous adventures, to his climactic meeting with the Fisher King. About the Book Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail. ![]()
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