Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail: With Especial Reference to the Hypothesis of Its Celtic Origin |
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Page 235 - That fell; and glared, an island of the sea. Ah! native England! wake thine ancient cry: "Ho! for the Sangraal! vanished vase of heaven! That held, like Christ's own heart, an hin of blood.
Page 156 - Then he spoke to them in the understanding, quieting, truly wise words of real knowledge ; and before there was any more talk between them, he put over the fist and he struck the king between the mouth and the nose, and he drove out three of his teeth, and he caught them in his fist, and he put them in his pouch, and he went away.
Page 236 - A gentle sound, an awful light! Three angels bear the holy Grail: With folded feet, in stoles of white, On sleeping wings they sail. Ah, blessed vision! blood of God! My spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory slides. And star-like mingles with the stars. When on my goodly charger borne Thro' dreaming towns I go, The cock crows ere the Christmas morn, The streets are dumb with snow.
Page 78 - C, DidotPerceval, we obtain an account similar in parts to that of the B versions, the most direct reference being in the speech of the hermit, Perceval's uncle, " Biaus nies, saches que a la table la ou Joseph fist et je meismes oimes la voiz de saint esperit qui nos comenda venir en loingteines terres en Occident, et comenda le riche pecheor mon pere que il venist en cestes parties, la ou li soleil avaloit...
Page 71 - Ou non dou Pe"re le penrunt Et dou Fil et dou Saint-Esprit (871-75) The offices Joseph rendered to Christ's body were symbolical of the Sacrament : the sepulchre is the altar ; the sheet in which the body was wrapped the corporal ; the vessel in which the blood was received shall be called chalice ; and by the patina upon which if rests is signified the tombstone (v. 901-912). Finally Christ promises Joseph that : — Tout cil qui ten veissel verrunt. En ma compeignie serunt ; De cuer arunt emplissement...
Page 149 - ... rival version. Steinbach has not noticed one curious bit of testimony to the poem's being an abridgment of an older work, more archaic in some respects than Chrestien. When the hero has slain the Red Knight he knows not how to rid him of his armour, but he bethinks him — . . . ' ' My moder bad me Whenne my dart solde brokene be, Owte of the irene brenne the tree, Now es me fyre gnede
Page 89 - Deu et vers sainte eglise et ait fait tant d'armes que il soit le plus alosez del monde. Et lors vendra a la maison au riche roi pecheor et quant il aura demande de quoi li Graus sert, tantost sera li roi gariz de de sa'nfermete et cherront li enchentement de Bretaigne et sera la prophetic accomplie
Page 36 - wilt thou come and show me this animal?" "Not so," said the maiden, "for he has not permitted any mortal to enter the forest for above a twelvemonth. Behold, here is a little dog belonging to the Empress, which will rouse the stag, and will chase him towards thee, and the stag will attack thee.
Page 227 - The history of the Legend of the Holy Grail is, thus, the history of the gradual transformation of old Celtic folk-tales into a poem charged with Christian symbolism and mysticism.
Page 118 - Bret," Again in the epilogue to the Bret.f " Je croi bien touchier sor les livres que maistres Gautiers Maup fist, qui fit lou propre livre de monsoingnour Lancelot dou Lac; et des autres granz livres que messires Robert de Berron fit, voudrai-je prendre aucune flor de la matiere . . . en...