page_title: Perceval, the Story of the Grail
hierarchical_section_title: Perceval, the Story of the Grail
caption_attribution_description: Perceval à la Recluserie Bibliothèque Nationale de France BNF Richelieu Manuscrits Français 111, Fol. 244v Quête du saint Graal, France, Poitiers, XVe siècle
context_page_description: Perceval, the Story of the Grail is the unfinished fifth verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes, written by him in Old French in the late 12th century. Later authors added 54,000 more lines in what are known collectively as the Four Continuations, as well as other related texts. Perceval is the earliest recorded account of what was to become the Quest for the Holy Grail but describes only a golden grail in the central scene, does not call it "holy" and treats a lance, appearing at the same time, as equally significant.
context_section_description: Perceval, the Story of the Grail (French: Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) is the unfinished fifth verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes, written by him in Old French in the late 12th century. Later authors added 54,000 more lines in what are known collectively as the Four Continuations, as well as other related texts. Perceval is the earliest recorded account of what was to become the Quest for the Holy Grail but describes only a golden grail (a serving dish) in the central scene, does not call it "holy" and treats a lance, appearing at the same time, as equally significant.
caption: Perceval arrives at the hermitage in a 15th-century illustration of Perceval
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