Sarras (city)

Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail)

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 128 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 128)

  "pon their road, and they journeyed so many days that they came to a city called Sarras."

• attestation: A journey or movement by Sarras is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 128 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 128)

  "And when all the people had been at prayers before the ark, they departed from the wood and set upon their road, and they journeyed so many days that they came to a city called Sarras."

• attestation: A geographical feature or location is described at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 128 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 128)

  "from that city the Sarrasins first came forth."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative 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 before that sect was established, in Sarras those people had no belief in worship, but rather they worshipped all things that pleased them, so tha"

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element 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 before that sect was established, in Sarras those people had no belief in worship, but rather they worshipped all things that pleased them, so that what they worshipped one day, they would not worship the next."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 208 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 208)

  "ill never return to his own land until he has worn the crown within the city of Sarras."

• attestation: A geographical feature or location is described at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 208 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 208)

  "And he has sworn an oath, before all his people and his barons, that he will never return to his own land until he has worn the crown within the city of Sarras."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 209 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 209)

  "all equipped with arms at Tarrabiel, a castle that was nine leagues from Sarras and six leagues from Evalachin where Tolomers was laying siege."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 224 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 224)

  "Then the king turned back on his straight road toward Sarras."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 284 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 284)

  "Thus Josephe is in the city of Sarras, he and the other Christians, much honored and served by queen Sarrasinte and by those of her household."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 294 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 294)

  "but Josephe remained in Sarras and had the images torn down and the idols destroyed, and he built new altars and purified the temples just as Jhésu-Cr"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving Sarras is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 294 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 294)

  "And when he had received and converted all the people of Sarras to the faith, he went throughout all the surrounding land, as far as the kingdom extended, and he sent all the Christians who went with him and who had come from Jhérusalem, except only"

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 296 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 296)

  "w the wonders that God performed for you and for your father when you healed in Sarras the man whose fist had been cut off, by touching the sign of th"

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 302 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 302)

  "Afterward he returned to Sarras, very glad because it seemed to him that he had done well by the faith and the work of our Lord."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 304 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 304)

  "rthy hermits and the names of those blessed holy bodies, and he carried them to Sarras."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 305 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 305)

  "(converted to the faith) and the bishop who was established in Sarras was called Anathites, and the one from Orbérique was called Joveniax."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to Sarras at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 305 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 305)

  "In the manner that you have heard, the kingdom of Sarras was conquered and won for the service of the glorious body of Jhésu-Crist."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 321 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 321)

  "ry concerning King Mourdrains and his company, who have remained in the city of Sarras."

• attribution: The title King is attributed to Sarras at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 321 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 321)

  "rather it returns to the direct path of the story concerning King Mourdrains and his company, who have remained in the city of Sarras."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "ous dream, for it seemed to him in his sleep that he was holding in the city of Sarras a court most rich and most honorable."

• attribution: Sarras is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "had been very fierce and very cruel to her, so she greatly feared his anger and his wrath."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to Sarras at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "Thus the king remained in sorrow and in troubled thought until it was well past midnight."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to Sarras at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "And then it happened that he fell asleep from the weariness of the thinking that had so burdened him."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving Sarras at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "As he was sleeping, he entered into a most perilous dream, for it seemed to him in his sleep that he was holding in the city of Sarras a court most rich and most honorable."

• attestation: A death event (die) involving Sarras is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "To that court came all the knights of the land and all the ladies of the country."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to Sarras at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "And when he had come out of a most splendid church that he had never before seen, he entered his palace and sat down to eat as richly and as fittingly as was the right and custom of a king."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to Sarras at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "Just as he was seated at his meal and was taking the first morsel to put in his mouth, a bolt of lightning descended from the sky and made his morsel fly from his hand and his crown fall from his head to the ground."

• attestation: Sarras participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (sentence 8) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "And when he tried to pick up his crown that lay on the ground and thought to put it back on his head, a great whirlwind of wind seized it and carried it away to a strange place very far off."

• attestation: A journey or movement by Sarras is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "In that place he remained a very long time, so it seemed to him, and there came to him a lion and a wolf."

• attestation: Sarras participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (sentence 10) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "The lion brought him all the good foods and all the riches of the world, and the wolf took them from him until there remained to him nothing but his bare sustenance in very great poverty."

• attestation: Military action involving Sarras is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 322)

  "In the end, when he saw that the wolf was robbing him in such a manner, he resolved that he would suffer it no longer, but rather would fight against it one day, and so he vanquished it with very great difficulty."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 331 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 331)

  "s silent at this point, and speaks of Nascien and the queen who had remained in Sarras."

• attestation: Sarras participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 331 (sentence 1) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 331)

  "It might well have been the hour of nones, but the tale speaks no more of him now, rather it falls silent at this point, and speaks of Nascien and the queen who had remained in Sarras."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 401 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 401)

  "n whose name and in whose honor you established the great church in the city of Sarras, and I have come to counsel you and comfort you, and the lamb s"

• attestation: A geographical feature or location is described at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 401 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 401)

  "I am Salustes, he in whose name and in whose honor you established the great church in the city of Sarras, and I have come to counsel you and comfort you, and the lamb sends me to you, who"

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 426 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 426)

  "y were out of the city, they turned onto the direct road leading to the city of Sarras, and the vavassour did this so that people would think they wer"

• attestation: A geographical feature or location is described at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 426 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 426)

  "And when they were out of the city, they turned onto the direct road leading to the city of Sarras, and the vavassour did this so that people would think they were going straight to the queen."

• attestation: The location Sarras is referenced in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 427 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 427)

  "they greatly hated those of Sarras and Orbérique because they were Christians."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (brother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 427 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 427)

  "But now the tale falls silent about the duchess Flégétine and her company and returns to the messengers of whom I had begun to tell you, who had set out for Queen Sarrasinte to seek her brother Nascien;"