The new international encyclopaedia . PERCEVAL. 571 PERCHERON HORSE. determine positively the history of these legends,it may be held that the version of tlie Grailstory in which Peiceval is the hero is earlierthan that in which Galahad holds this scholars who maintain the theory of a^\elsh origin for the whole cycle attempt withdetermination to identify Percival with the Pere-dur of the ilabinogion and other Welsh legends;but it is only by straining a possible allusionthat any reference to the Grail can be foundin them. This feature becomes of prime im-portance in the romance of P
The new international encyclopaedia . PERCEVAL. 571 PERCHERON HORSE. determine positively the history of these legends,it may be held that the version of tlie Grailstory in which Peiceval is the hero is earlierthan that in which Galahad holds this scholars who maintain the theory of a^\elsh origin for the whole cycle attempt withdetermination to identify Percival with the Pere-dur of the ilabinogion and other Welsh legends;but it is only by straining a possible allusionthat any reference to the Grail can be foundin them. This feature becomes of prime im-portance in the romance of Pen-eiale le (lallois,bigun by Chrestiende Troyes, continued by Gau-chier de Dordan, and finished by ilanessicr inthe closing years of the twelfth century. ThisFrench version was taken by the great Germanpoet Wolfram von Eschenbach, and adaptedrather than translated. In his ParxivaL thework of his highest genius, rendered additionallyfamous from its selection by Wagner as thebasis of a libretto, we get further away fromthe Arthurian l
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