* The German Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, which adapted at least the holiness of Robert ’ s Grail into the framework of Chrétien ’ s story.

In The Sign and the Seal, Graham Hancock asserts that the Grail story is a coded description of the stone tablets stored in the Ark of the Covenant.

The best known is Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, which, like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is based on the idea that the real Grail is not a cup but the womb and later the earthly remains of Mary Magdalene ( again cast as Jesus ' wife ), plus a set of ancient documents claimed to tell the true story of Jesus, his teachings and descendants.

The 12th-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes, who added Lancelot and the Holy Grail to the story, began the genre of Arthurian romance that became a significant strand of medieval literature.

In reality, most mainstream scholars agree that the story of the Grail was just that, a literary fiction that began circulating in medieval times.

It was originally attached to a cycle of prose versions of Robert's poems, which tells the story of the Holy Grail: brought from the Middle East to Britain by followers of Joseph of Arimathea, the Grail is eventually recovered by Arthur's knight Percival.

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.

Later authors sometimes mistakenly or deliberately treated the Grail story as truth — John of Glastonbury, who assembled a chronicle of the history of Glastonbury Abbey around 1350, claims that when Joseph came to Britain, he brought with him a wooden cup used in the Last Supper and two cruets, one holding the blood of Christ, and the other his sweat, washed from his wounded body on the Cross.

Unsatisfied, Spielberg suggested introducing Indiana's father, Henry Jones, Sr. Lucas was dubious, believing the Grail should be the focus of the story, but Spielberg convinced him that the father – son relationship would serve as a great metaphor in Indiana's search for the artifact.

The medieval production tells the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they journey on their quest for the Holy Grail.

This fanciful legend is intimately tied to Robert de Boron's version of the Holy Grail story and to Glastonbury's connection to King Arthur, which dates at least to the early 12th century.

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 ".

Additionally, the Welsh story Peredur son of Efrawg, a version of the Percival story with several striking deviations, features the hero visiting a mysterious castle, but he does not find the Grail there, but rather a severed human head.

In Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the knights escaped to Scotland, but in some versions the Templars are even claimed to have left for North America, burying a treasure in Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada ( a story taken up in the 2004 movie National Treasure starring Nicolas Cage ).

In this story, which introduces the Grail motif in medieval literature, Perceval is the sole seeker of the grail.

Sir Galahad first appears in the Lancelot – Grail cycle, and his story is taken up in later works such as the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur.

The story of Sir Galahad and his quest for the Holy Grail is a relatively late addition to the Arthurian legend.

In most versions of the story of Sir Galahad, Galahad's death comes about after his greatest achievement, that of the Holy Grail.

The story accounts Galahads emotions before embarking on the quest for the Grail.

This text gives a detailed discourse covering Galahad ’ s life story from his birth to his death, with specific emphasis on his contribution to the quest for the Holy Grail.

It was also the most extensive commission undertaken by the firm, and included a series of tapestries based on the story of the Holy Grail for the dining room, with figures by Burne-Jones.

Finding Atlantis: a true story of genius, madness, and an extraordinary quest for a lost world.

The story of Kid Icarus revolves around protagonist Pit's quest for three sacred treasures, which he must equip to rescue the Grecian fantasy world Angel Land and its ruler, the goddess Palutena.

The basic form of the story is that of a quest, told in episodes.

On June 2, 2009, the MMORPG RuneScape released a quest titled " The Hunt For Red Raktuber ", which is loosely based on this story.

Yu Hua is one of the more notable writers, writing a weird counter-genre short story titled Blood and Plum Blossoms, in which the protagonist goes on a quest to avenge his murdered father.

The story continues in this fashion, the player continuing to choose other numbered sections, until their character is either stopped, killed, or completes the quest.

The story features young heroes Rand al ' Thor, Mat Cauthon, and Perrin Aybara, who join Shienaren soldiers in a quest to retrieve the Horn of Valere.

One additional, non-controllable character may occasionally accompany the main character in the story and can perform different activities to aid the main character in his quest.

This story is the first one since the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to send its hero on a quest through the land of Oz, a technique that allowed Baum to showcase the marvels of the land.

The story is a continuation of The Gunslinger and follows Roland of Gilead and his quest towards the Dark Tower.

The climax of his early work is the novella À vau-l ' eau ( 1882 ) ( Downstream or With the Flow ), the story of a downtrodden clerk, Monsieur Folantin, and his quest for a decent meal.

The rest of the story is a straightforward adventure / quest set many years later in the wild landscape and society ; but the opening chapters set an example for many later science fiction stories.

) The story itself sees Mina Harker and Allan Quatermain — now immortal after bathing in the fire of youth from She — on their quest to recover the Black Dossier itself ( a confessed macguffin ), in a metafictional unravelling of the secret history of the now-disbanded League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

The Maenads appear in Rick Riordan's " The Demigod Diaries ", where they are the principle enemies in the story " Leo Valdez and the quest for Buford ".

It is the narrator's quest for biographical details about Hoenikker that provides both the background and the connecting thread between the various subsections of the story.

The old story of Alcimede's son Jason and the quest for the golden fleece is most familiar from a late version, the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes.

The story concerns the fate of Faust in his quest for the true essence of life (" was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält ").

* The Tiger Warrior by David Gibbins ( Bantam ; June 2009 ) weaves in the history of Qin Shi Huang and his quest for immortality with Roman legionnaires, Indian tribes, Victorian-era British soldiers and a modern archaeological-adventure story.

Early in the story, he meets an alien named Buzz Buzz with the appearance of a bee, who explains the quest that Ness must embark on.

* To illustrate, at various points in the story, how far the quest has progressed.

The Secret Book is a Macedonian feature film combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, based on a fictional story of the quest for the original Slavic language " Secret Book ", written by the Bogomils in Bulgaria and carried to Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

During the several years between the novel's publication and the film's production, Peter Sellers reportedly engaged in a determined quest to obtain the rights to bring the story to the screen and portray its lead character, sending several postcards and letters signed " Chance " to Jerzy Kosinski and Hal Ashby.