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This is the Holy Grail these knights of the orgasm pursue, this is the irresistible cosmic urge to which they respond.
In some films, knitted string spray-painted with a metallic paint is used instead of actual mail in order to cut down on cost ( an example being Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which was filmed on a very small budget ).
In a mighty castle stands the Round Table ; it is here that Galahad conquers the Siege Perilous, and where the knights see a vision of the Holy Grail and swear to find it.
The challenge of drawing a sword from a stone also appears in the Arthurian legends of Galahad, whose achievement of the task indicates that he is destined to find the Holy Grail.
In several early French works such as Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section, Excalibur is used by Gawain, Arthur's nephew and one of his best knights.
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch is a fictional weapon from the comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Hand Grenade is described as a " sacred relic " carried by Cistercian monk Brother Maynard ( Eric Idle ) and is used near the film's conclusion to destroy a killer rabbit that blocks the path of King Arthur and his hapless Knights Errant.
The Holy Grail is a dish, plate, stone, or cup around which an important theme of Arthurian literature revolves.
Galahad, illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine, the world's greatest knight and the Grail Bearer at the castle of Corbenic, is destined to achieve the Grail, his spiritual purity making him a greater warrior than even his illustrious father.
Since then, " Sang real " is sometimes employed to lend a medievalising air in referring to the Holy Grail.
Though Chrétien ’ s account is the earliest and most influential of all Grail texts, it was in the work of Robert de Boron that the Grail truly became the " Holy Grail " and assumed the form most familiar to modern readers.
* Verses by Rigaut de Barbezieux, a late 12th or early 13th century Provençal troubador, where mention is made of Perceval, the lance, and the Grail (" Like Perceval when he lived, who stood amazed in contemplation, so that he was quite unable to ask what purpose the lance and grail served "-" Attressi con Persavaus el temps que vivia, que s ' esbait d ' esgarder tant qu ' anc non saup demandar de que servia la lansa ni-l grazaus ").
The general view is that the central theme of the Grail is Christian, even when not explicitly religious, but that much of the setting and imagery of the early romances is drawn from Celtic material.
Other stories claim that the Grail is buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel or lies deep in the spring at Glastonbury Tor.
John Boorman, in his film Excalibur, attempted to restore a more traditional heroic representation of an Arthurian tale, in which the Grail is revealed as a mystical means to revitalise Arthur and the barren land to which his depressive sickness is connected.

Grail and first
The Grail was considered a bowl or dish when first described by Chrétien de Troyes.
The first concerns King Arthur ’ s knights visiting the Grail castle or questing after the object ; the second concerns the Grail ’ s history in the time of Joseph of Arimathea.
For example, Joseph Goering of the University of Toronto has identified sources for Grail imagery in 12th century wall paintings from churches in the Catalan Pyrenees ( now mostly removed to the Museu Nacional d ' Art de Catalunya, Barcelona ), which present unique iconic images of the Virgin Mary holding a bowl that radiates tongues of fire, images that predate the first literary account by Chrétien de Troyes.
Although the practice of Holy Communion was first alluded to in the Christian Bible and defined by theologians in the 1st centuries AD, it was around the time of the appearance of the first Christianised Grail literature that the Roman church was beginning to add more ceremony and mysticism around this particular sacrament.
Thus, the first Grail stories may have been celebrations of a renewal in this traditional sacrament.
In Wolfram von Eschenbach's telling, the Grail was kept safe at the castle of Munsalvaesche ( mons salvationis ), entrusted to Titurel, the first Grail King.
A major mural series depicting the Quest for the Holy Grail was done by the artist Edwin Austin Abbey during the first decade of the 20th century for the Boston Public Library.
These works were the Estoire del Saint Grail, the Estoire de Merlin, the Lancelot propre ( or Prose Lancelot, which made up half the entire Vulgate Cycle on its own ), the Queste del Saint Graal and the Mort Artu, which combine to form the first coherent version of the entire Arthurian legend.
The first Grail romance, Le Conte du Graal, was written around 1180 by Chrétien de Troyes, who came from the same area where the Council of Troyes had officially sanctioned the Templars ' Order.
The themes which were later explored in Parsifal of self-renouncing, reincarnation, compassion and even exclusive social groups ( castes in Die Sieger, the Knights of the Grail in Parsifal ) were first introduced in Die Sieger.
At the first performances of Parsifal problems with the moving scenery during the transition from Scene one to Scene two in Act 1 meant that Wagner's existing orchestral interlude finished before Parsifal and Gurnemanz arrived at the Hall of the Grail.
At the first Bayreuth Festival after World War II he presented a radical move away from literal representation of the Hall of the Grail or the Flower-Maiden's bower.
During the late 12th century, Joseph became connected with the Arthurian cycle, appearing in them as the first keeper of the Holy Grail.
This idea first appears in Robert de Boron's Joseph d ' Arimathie, in which Joseph receives the Grail from an apparition of Jesus and sends it with his followers to Britain.
Lucas first introduced the Holy Grail in an idea for the film's prologue, which was to be set in Scotland.
That's how the first two films ended ," he said, " So I thought, let them lose the Grail, and let the father – son relationship be the main point.
The shot of the Grail falling to the temple floor — causing the first crack to appear — was attempted on the full-size set, but proved too difficult.
The Fisher King first appears in Chrétien de Troyes's 12th century French romance Perceval, the Story of the Grail ; he has been dealt a mortal wound in the leg ( Brân's wound was in his foot ) but stays alive in his mystical castle due to the effects of the Grail, waiting to be healed by Percival.
A later author who took up the story, Robert de Boron, describes the history of the Grail in ancient times, and says the first Fisher King was a man called " Bron ".

Grail and featured
" Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " is also featured in Eric Idle's Spamalot, a Broadway musical based upon Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and was sung by the rest of the Monty Python group at Graham Chapman's memorial service and at the Monty Python Live At Aspen special.
The Merovingians are extensively featured in the book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, in which they are claimed to be descended from Jesus and survived their deposition in 751.
* A fictional depiction of Alamut castle in the middle of the 13th century and its fall in 1256 is featured in the The Children of the Grail books series by Peter Berling.
The elaborately carved chapel has long been associated with the Knights Templars and the Grail legend, and featured in the best selling book The Da Vinci Code.
In Search of the Holy Grail also starring Matthew Johns ' Footy Show spin-off character, Reg Reagan featured in the Newcastle Film Festival.
* Giscila, married Berà II of Razès and had female issue ( this line as featured in Holy Blood, Holy Grail might be fiction )

Grail and Perceval
Upon his release Joseph gathers his in-laws and other followers and travels to the west, and founds a dynasty of Grail keepers that eventually includes Perceval.
* The German Diu Crône ( The Crown ), in which Gawain, rather than Perceval, achieves the Grail.
However, the most significant for the development of the Arthurian legend are Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which introduces Lancelot and his adulterous relationship with Arthur's queen ( Guinevere ), extending and popularizing the recurring theme of Arthur as a cuckold, and Perceval, the Story of the Grail, which introduces the Holy Grail and the Fisher King and which again sees Arthur having a much reduced role.
Perceval, although unfinished, was particularly popular: four separate continuations of the poem appeared over the next half century, with the notion of the Grail and its quest being developed by other writers such as Robert de Boron, a fact that helped accelerate the decline of Arthur in continental romance.
The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).
In what is probably Chretien's last work, Perceval, the Story of the Grail, probably written 1181-1191, we find:
The Didot Perceval, a prose continuation of Robert's work, takes up the story, and the knight Percival sits in the seat and initiates the Grail quest.
It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival ( Percival ) and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.
In Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval, the Story of the Grail, the greater part of the verse focuses on Gawain rather than on the character after whom it is named.
In this story, which introduces the Grail motif in medieval literature, Perceval is the sole seeker of the grail.
It is instead his son, Galahad, who ultimately achieves the Grail to drink from ( along with Lancelot's nephew Sir Bors and Sir Perceval, the son of King Pellinore ).
Based on Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, le Conte du Graal, it is the first extant work in German to have as its subject the Holy Grail.
Chrétien's final romance was Perceval, the Story of the Grail, written between 1181 and 1190, but left unfinished, though some scholars have disputed this.
Chrétien also has the distinction of being the first writer to mention the Holy Grail ( Perceval ) and the love affair between Queen Guinevere and Lancelot ( Lancelot ), subjects of household recognition even today.
Of the three knights who are untainted by sin – Sir Perceval, Sir Bors, and Sir Galahad – Galahad is the only one predestined to achieve this honor of attaining the Holy Grail.
Philip may have been the patron of Chrétien de Troyes while he was writing his last romance, Perceval, the Story of the Grail.

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