Holy Grail (vessel)

Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail)

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4)

  "but by the words that shall hereafter be spoken, you may well, in great measure, perceive his life and his lineage;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4)

  "yet this beginning he did not wish to reveal for three reasons: first, that if he had named himself and said that God had revealed to him so lofty a thing and so lofty a mystery as that of the Graal, which is the foundation of all histories, the wicked and the envious would have turned it

to his disadvantage."

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4 (sentence 6) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4)

  "The second reason is that there might be one who, hearing his name, would know him, and would therefore esteem the history less, because by so lowly a person it had been set in writing;"

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4 (sentence 7) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4)

  "for he holds himself to be the most wretched person and the most despised that was ever formed."

• attribution: Holy Grail is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4)

  "in the Holy Spirit, by whom all good things are wholly cleansed and purified."

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4 (sentence 8) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4)

  "The third reason is that if there were in the history some unseemly thing, whether through erasure or through the"

• attestation: An emotional response involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4)

  "delivered from everlasting sorrows and brought back to a joy that shall last without end;"

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4 (sentence 3) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 4)

  "The name of him who set this history in writing is not named nor made known at the beginning;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13)

  "And then I found a title that said: "Here begins the book of the holy Graal."

• attribution: Holy Grail is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13)

  "And I saw the names and the lives of so many worthy men that I would scarcely dare to say or acknowledge that I was descended from them."

• attribution: Holy Grail is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13)

  "For when I saw their good lives and the great labors they had endured on earth for their Creator, I could not imagine how I might so improve my life that it would be worthy of being held among theirs."

• attestation: Military action involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13)

  "Nor did it seem that I was a man compared to them, but rather a mere semblance of a man and a reproach."

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13 (sentence 4) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13)

  "In this thought I remained a very long while;"

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13 (sentence 5) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13)

  "but all the same I returned to the book, until I had read to the end of my lineage."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 13)

  "" And when I had read until midday had passed and it might well have been the hour of nones, I found another that said: "This is the beginning of the terrors."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving Holy Grail at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311)

  "There the great marvels will occur;"

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311 (sentence 3) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311)

  "and the great feats of prowess will be demonstrated."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving Holy Grail at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311)

  "" "This is," he said, "the beginning of the marvelous adventures that will come to pass in the land where God has purposed to lead you."

• attestation: Military action involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311)

  "And then the true knighthoods of the earth will be revealed and uncovered."

• attestation: A journey or movement by Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311)

  "Then the foolish will depart from the company of the true."

• attestation: Military action involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311)

  "For the earthly knighthoods will become celestial."

• attestation: Military action involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311)

  "No one shall be informed of these adventures, nor certain of the time when they will occur, until the appointed time when they must come to pass, but at the time when they must begin, it will happen that this lance will shed blood just as you have now seen it shed, nor shall a single drop of blood fall from this moment forward until the hour when the adventures must come to pass, just as you have heard."

• attestation: Military action involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 311)

  "And then the marvels will begin to occur throughout all the lands where this lance shall be, and they will be so great and so terrifying that all people will be astonished by them, and all these marvels will occur solely for the knowledge of the holy Graal and of this lance, for the desire for them will be so great among the worthy men who shall live at that time, that they will undertake to endure the anguishing deeds of earthly knighthoods, in order to know the marvels of the holy Graal and of the lance, and then its marvelous adventures will be open to those to whom the truly"

• attestation: A healing or recovery of Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 312 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 312)

  "he will be struck through both thighs, nor will he ever be healed until the marvels of the holy Graal are revealed to the one who will be full of all virtues."

• attestation: A death event (crucif) involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 439 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 439)

  "but in the holy story that was sent to earth by the mouth of truth, that is of Jhésu-Grist, in that one will never find a word of falsehood, for he would be full of too mad a boldness who dared to add a lie to so lofty a history as is the history that the true crucified one wrote with his own hand;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "that commanded them to come together carnally;"

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (sentence 20) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "for the punishment of the first transgression chastened them;"

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (sentence 1) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "both of them sat beneath that tree."

• attestation: An emotional response involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "And Adans began to look at her and to lament his sorrow and his exile, and then they both began to weep most tenderly, each for the other."

• attestation: A journey or movement by Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "And then Eve said that it was no wonder if they had there a remembrance of sorrow and grief, for the tree held it within itself, and no one could remain beneath it, no matter how joyful they were, without departing sorrowful;"

• attestation: A death event (death) involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "and rightly so, all those who would ever see it would be sorrowful, for it was the tree of death."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "And as soon as she had spoken these words, a voice spoke and said to them both: "Wretched ones!"

• attestation: A death event (death) involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "Why do you condemn and judge one another to death?"

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (sentence 7) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "Do not destroy yourselves, and do not condemn anything more out of despair."

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (sentence 8) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "Rather, comfort one another;"

• attestation: A death event (death) involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "for there shall be more of life than of death—of this, never be in doubt."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to Holy Grail at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  ""

Thus spoke the voice of the king to the two wretched ones, and then they were both greatly comforted, and they called it, from then on, the tree of life, because of the good tidings they had received beneath it."

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (sentence 11) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "And because of the great joy they had from it, they planted many others, all of which descended from that one."

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (sentence 12) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "For as soon as they removed a branch and stuck it in the ground, it took root at once and rooted of its own accord;"

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (sentence 13) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "and it always kept the color of the original and its manner."

• attestation: A journey or movement by Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "And that one, all the while, grew and rooted greatly, and it came to pass that many times Adan and Eve went to sit and rest beneath it."

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (sentence 15) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "And it happened one day that they were both sitting there together, and the true mouth of the great master says that it was on a Friday."

• attestation: The Holy Grail vessel is referenced in connection with Holy Grail at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "And when they had sat together a long while, they heard a voice speak

460 * LE SAINT GRAAL."

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (sentence 18) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "and they were both so full of great shame that their modesty could not suffer them to see each other committing such vileness;"

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to Holy Grail at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "for the man felt as great a shame about it as the woman, and they did not know how they dared transgress the commandment of their lord;"

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (sentence 21) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "and they began to look at each other most shamefully."

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to Holy Grail at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "Then our Lord saw their very great shame and had pity on them: and because his will cannot be turned aside, and his will was such that from these two he wished to establish the human lineage, to restore the tenth legion of angels who had been cast out of heaven for their pride, he sent them great comfort for their shame, for he covered them in such a manner that neither of the two could see the other."

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by Holy Grail at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "Then they were both greatly astonished by that darkness and how it had descended between them so suddenly."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "Then the one called to the other and they touched one another without seeing, and because it is necessary that all things be brought to the will of our Lord, it was necessary that their two bodies come together carnally, just as the sovereign father had commanded to some and to others."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 9)

  "And when they had lain together, they had made a new seed by which their sins were somewhat lightened, for Adans had begotten and his wife had conceived Abel the just, the one who served his creator first, willingly rendering his tithe faithfully."

• attestation: A journey or movement by Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480)

  "spindles, news came to them that those who had cut into the tree of life had been struck blind;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480)

  "and this grieved Salemons more than his wife."

• attestation: Military action involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480)

  "Then Salemons composed a letter to place in the ship, and he wrote at the beginning of the letter as though it were the summation of his reasoning: "Hear this, good and blessed knight who shall be the last of my lineage: if you wish to be at peace and a wise man above all things, guard yourself against the cunning of women;"

• attestation: Military action involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480)

  "and if you do not heed this, neither wisdom nor prowess nor knighthood will protect you from being shamed in the end."

• attestation: Holy Grail participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480 (sentence 5) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480)

  "And this Salemons sends to you so that you may guard yourself, in remembrance of him."

• attestation: Military action involving Holy Grail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480)

  "" This was the beginning of the letter that Salemons composed for the knight who afterward performed such fine deeds of knighthood in the kingdom of Logres and brought to completion the adventures that in the land of the foreign country and in many other lands came about through the virtue and the power of the holy Graal, as the tale will relate hereafter."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 480)

  "Afterward, he wrote the truth about the ship — how the wife had it made, and the richness of the ship"