Perceval, the Story of the Grail
A boy raised in the forest by a mother who has kept knighthood from him rides to Arthur's court, takes up arms he barely understands, and at a castle by a river fails to ask the one question that would heal a maimed king. Gauvain's parallel adventures interleave with his, and the text breaks off mid-line with its author dead. The Grail enters European literature here; Wolfram, the Vulgate Cycle and Malory all begin from this unfinished work.
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