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Percival

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Percival

In British legend, one of King Arthur's knights, particularly associated with the quest for the Holy Grail. Based on the Welsh hero Peredur, he first appeared in Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval, ou le conte du Graal (c. 1190).

Brought up in a Welsh forest by his widowed mother, a chance meeting with some knights prompts his departure for Arthur's court. Later he is knighted, falls in love with Blanchefleur, and encounters the wounded Fisher King. His failure to ask about the lance and Holy Grail which he sees during dinner with the Fisher King lead to destruction and suffering.

His story, incomplete in Chrétien de Troyes's work, inspired various elaborations by later writers. In Manessier's continuation of Chrétien's poem, in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival (which inspired Wagner's opera), and in the Didot Perceval he achieves the Grail quest, while in another prose romance, Perlesvaus, he delivers the Grail Castle from a hostile king.
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Percival Delaney, let us say, yes, let us say Percival Delaney, was not unknown at Oxford once upon a time--not for scholarship, I am frank to admit; but the gay young dogs of that day, if any be yet alive, would remember him--"
The Red One by London, Jack View in context
"I didn't mean that either," said Babcock, "I was only afraid that I might have seemed yesterday not to remember--not to consider; well, I think I will write to Percival about it.
The American by James, Henry View in context
For instance he did not know that Del Mar's real name was Percival Grunsky, and that at grammar school he had been called "Brownie" by the girls and "Blackie" by the boys.
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