![]() ![]() In the scholarly quest for the identity of the Holy Grail in Arthurian literature, Wolfram’s version, namely, that it is a mysterious stone carried by Repanse de Schoye, the beautiful lady whose name in Wolfram’s French signifies overflowing or spreading joy, is a stumbling block. For most moderns who can either read the original German or can find a satisfactory translation …Parzival is the most satisfying medieval treatment of the legend of the Grail. In short there breathes throughout the poem a spirit bold, realistic, generous, tender, and magnanimous. This, while his Parzival paradoxically remains acknowledged as the greatest medieval telling of the story of the Grail. still Wolfram’s view on the nature of the Grail as a stone is nowadays treated by critics with mystified respect and then allowed, as if inconvenient, to disappear from discussion and gradually, as it were, slip from sight. “this courtly romance might be one of the most intriguing literary works of its time in terms of intellectual and spiritual epistemology” ![]() Even though his Parzival was one of the most popular and spiritually challenging tales of medieval Germania-as Albrecht Classen notes, Wolfram Eschenbach’s notioned that the Grail is a stone. ![]()
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