Galahad accomplished this test with ease, and King Arthur swiftly proclaimed him to be the greatest knight ever, that is why, he was promptly invited to become a knight of the Round Table. Sir Galahad survived this test, witnessed by king Arthur who, upon realizing the greatness or this new knight, led him out to the river where a sword lied on a stone with an inscription said "never shall man take me hence but only he by whose side I ought to hang and he shall be the best knight of the world". Sir Galahad is then brought to king Arthur' s court at Camelot, where he is accompanied by a very old knight who immediately leads over to the Round Table and unveils his seat at the Siege Perilous, an unused chair that has been kept vacant for the sole person who will accomplish the guest of the holy grail.
In "Sir Galahad", Alfred Lord Tennyson describes Galahad who upon reaching adulthood is reunited with his father Sir Lancelot, who knights him.
This grail is concerned with carrying on Christ's effectiveness in this world as a vessel through which the divine can have its way. Perceval's guest, spiral though it was that of "redeeming the Spirit of God in matter, under the guidance of the self, the inner 'Christ'….to discover the form in which the essential psychic life of Christ continues to exist and what that means". This may imply that Chretien intended the mass wafer to be the significant part of the ritual and the grail to be mere prop. The story of the wounded king's mystical fasting is not unique, several saints were said to have lived without food beside communion. 6įor Chretien the grail was a wide, somewhat deep dish or bowl, and interesting because it contained not a pike, salmon or lamprey but a single mass wafer which provided sustenance for the Fisher King's crippled father. Finally, a beautiful young girl emerges bearing an elaborately decorated grail. First comes a young man carrying a bleeding lance, then two boys carrying candelabras. The grail is first featured in Perceval, "Le Conte du Graal" by Chretien de Troyes, who states that while Perceval is dining in the magical abode of the Fisher King, he witnesses a wondrous procession in which youths carry magnificent objects from one chamber to another, passing before him at each course of the meal. Upon his release Joseph gathers his in-laws and others followers and travels to the west, and found a dynasty of grail keepers that eventually includes Perceval. Joseph is thrown in prison, where Christ visits him and explains the mysterious of the blessed cup.
According to him, Joseph of Arimathea used the grail (the last supper vessel) to catch the last drops of blood from Jesus' s body as he was hung on the cross. He is the first author to give the holy grail myth an explicit Christian dimension. Ropert de Boron was a French poet of the late 12th and early 13th centuries who was most notable as the author of the poem "Joseph d' Arimathe". That is why there were many figures who were interested in studying or writing about the holy grail. Because of its association with Christ, the grail becomes one of the great relics sought after by kings and knights for centuries. In one such tale, the man with the lance pierces Jesus' side on the cross is cured of blindness by the blood in the cup. It was said that fertility, restoration, and rebirth are the key themes they constitute the promise of the grail, its capability of saving an individual and even an entire land from calamity. It was said that the grail had the power to heal all wounds and possess miraculous powers which are : ability to prolong natural life and ability to revive recently deceased. The holy grail is a sacred object figuring in literature and certain Christian traditions, most often identified with the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the last supper, or vessel that caught Jesus' blood during his crucifixion. In old French "san grail" means "holy grail" and sang real means "royal blood". According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, after the cycle of the grail romance was well established, late medieval writers came up with a false etymology for sangrail, an alternative name for "holy grail". The word "grail " comes from Old French "graal" or "greal", means "a cup or bowl of earth, wood, or metal". Muhanned Ajel Hadi University of Al- Qadissiyah
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