Strange as it may seem to us, the character of this object was by no means fixed from the beginning. In the poem of Wolfram von Eschenbach it is a stone endowed with magical properties. The word is derived by the early fabulists from gréable, something pleasant to possess and enjoy, and out of which one could have à son gré, whatever he chose of good things. The Grail legend will be dealt with later in connexion with the Welsh tale “Peredur.”
Distinguished by these from the other great storehouse of poetic legend, the Matière de Bretagne—i.e., the Arthurian saga.
See [p. 103].
“Cultur der Gegenwart,” i. ix.
A list of them is given in Lobineau's “Histoire de Bretagne.”
See, e.g., pp. [243] and [a]218, note].
See [p. 233], and a similar case in the author's “High Deeds of Finn,” p. 82.
See [p. 232], and the tale of the recovery of the “Tain,” [p. 234].
“Pwyll King of Dyfed,” “Bran and Branwen,” “Math Sor of Māthonwy,” and “Manawyddan Son of Llyr.”
See [p. 107].