. The Open court. suffering from thewound of a poisoned spear. From that wound he did not die, butneither could he be cured, so he lived on in great agony. Mean-while, to his aged gransire, Titurel, the Holy Grail every seven daysgave the message that some day relief would come. A chosen herowould visit the castle of the Holv Grail, and if, before nightfall, he PARSIFAL. 137 should ask the meaning of what he saw there, the spell which layupon Amfortas would be broken, the wound would be cured, andthe stranger would then be crowned King in place of Amfortas. The tale now returns to Percival. On
. The Open court. suffering from thewound of a poisoned spear. From that wound he did not die, butneither could he be cured, so he lived on in great agony. Mean-while, to his aged gransire, Titurel, the Holy Grail every seven daysgave the message that some day relief would come. A chosen herowould visit the castle of the Holv Grail, and if, before nightfall, he PARSIFAL. 137 should ask the meaning of what he saw there, the spell which layupon Amfortas would be broken, the wound would be cured, andthe stranger would then be crowned King in place of Amfortas. The tale now returns to Percival. On growing to manhoodhe longed for knightly adventures, and finally his mother let himgo to seek King Arthurs court, of which his friends had told his way he met the Lady Jeschute, wife of Lord Orilus, andsome little love-making occurred between them, which aroused thewrath of Orilus when he heard of it, so that Percival discreetlytook to flight. Soon after he found in the woods a maiden weeping :i^mm< Parsifal Appearing at the Court of King Arthur. (Mediaeval illustration of Christians Conte del Graal. Lid of an ivory box of the fourteenth century, preserved in the Louvre, Paris.) over a dead man. She proved to be Sigune, his cousin, weepingover Tchionatulander, who had become a knight of Arthurs RoundTable and had done great deeds of prowess, but had been slain byOrilus in a combat over Sigunes pet dog. Percival vow^ed to be-come one of Arthurs knights and then to avenge her upon his further w^ay he met a knight in red armor, who jeered at himand bade him carry to Arthur a message of defiance. Percival de-livered the message and was banteringly told by Arthur that if hecould go back and conquer the red knight he might have his horseand armor. Percival went back, fought the knight and slew him, 138 THE OPEN COURT. and so won the horse and armor. After that he spent some time asthe guest and pupil of the brave old knight Gurnemann, and learnedfrom him all
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