The Narrator (hermit author)

Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail)

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 2 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 2)

  "in the Father, by whom all things are established and created"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 2 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 2)

  "to all those who have their faith in the holy glorious Trinity, that is: in the Father and in the Son and in the Holy Spirit;"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 2 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 2)

  "to all those who have their faith in the holy glorious"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 2 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 2)

  "Trinity, that is: in the Father and in the Son and in the Holy Spirit;"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3)

  "in the Son, by whom all those, men and women, who have faith in him, are"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3)

  "all those, men and women, who have faith in him, are"

• attestation: An act of preaching or teaching by a figure 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 because I am the perfect master, as one who is the fountain of all wisdom, for this reason I have come to you, for I wish that you receive instruction in all those things about which you shall be in doubt;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure 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 I shall make you certain and wise concerning a thing of which no mortal man was ever certain, and through you it shall be opened and made clear to all those who shall ever hear it told."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure 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 when I held the book, he said to me: "Do you wish to know what I have given you?"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure 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 I told him that I would know it most gladly."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving 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 he said to me: "This is the book in which you shall find within such great marvels that no mortal heart could imagine."

• attestation: A temporal reference or duration 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)

  "Nor shall you ever be in doubt about anything that you shall not be guided by this book, and within it are my secrets that I myself placed there by my own hand, which no man should see unless he has first been purified by confession and by a fast of three days, on bread and water, and after that he must, in such a manner, speak it so that he says it with the tongue of his heart, so that the tongue of his mouth never shows."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 10 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 10)

  "For blood shall rain down and there shall be other marvels;"

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 10 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 10)

  "and there are other things besides: no man shall look often upon this book, in the manner one ought to look upon it, without gaining the two greatest joys that exist: that is, the joy of the soul and the joy of the body."

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 10 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 10)

  "For there is no mortal man, however grievously troubled, if he can fully enter into it, in the manner one ought to see therein, whose heart shall not at once be delivered from all anger and filled with all the joys that a mortal heart may have, so pleasant and delightful are the words that are therein: this is the joy of the body."

• attestation: A celestial being or divine intervention is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 10 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 10)

  "And on the other hand, he shall be kindled, little by little, with spiritual love, so that if he is given over to earthly things, he shall for this reason devote himself to the work and"

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 11 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 11)

  "nor for any sin that he may have committed in this world shall he die a sudden death, he who has held and seen this book but once."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 11 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 11)

  "" And when he had said this, a voice cried out like a trumpet;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 11 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 11)

  "and when it had cried out, there came so great a crash from on high that it seemed to me that all the firmament had fallen, and that the earth had melted down to the abyss;"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 11 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 11)

  "rather I took it all for a dream, until I found in my hand the book, just as the great master had placed it there."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 12 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 12)

  "the book between my two hands throughout, and I was in prayer and supplication until God brought forth the day, which I awaited most earnestly."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 12 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 12)

  "And when the day was so bright that I could make out the letters, I began to read the writing, and found at the beginning a title that said: "This is the beginning of your lineage."

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 12 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 12)

  "for I saw so many letters there that I was astonished at how so great an abundance of words could be gathered into so small a book;"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 12 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 12)

  "And I marveled so much that I would have doubted my own eyes, had it not been given to me by him who can set a great abundance of words in a small space, and who can fill a great space with a small thing."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 14 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 14)

  "When I had passed beyond this one, I began to read, and I saw such things that were most fearful and terrifying to behold, and God knows that I viewed them with very great dread, nor would I ever have dared to undertake it, had He not commanded me by whose command all living things are moved."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 14 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 14)

  "And when I had seen enough wondrous things, I found the fourth title which said: "Here begin the marvels."

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 14 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 14)

  "As I was pondering this thing, a ray just like burning fire descended from the sky and came before my eyes, roaring like thunder, and it greatly resembled a flash of lightning, except that its brightness lasted longer and was greater and more terrifying;"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 14 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 14)

  "thus I recovered as it pleased our Lord;"

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 15 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 15)

  "Afterward I heard around me so sweet a song and so great a praise that all the instruments and all the melodies one could hear on earth would be nothing to listen to compared to that song which I heard."

• attestation: A celestial being or divine intervention is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 15 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 15)

  "For there were so many voices that no"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 17 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 17)

  "And as soon as the voices ceased singing, there remained the great fragrance that I had long smelled, which had pleased me so deeply that never, on any day, would I have wished to be in any other state than I was, provided it were at the pleasure of our Lord."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 17 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 17)

  "I began to think most deeply about this marvel that I had long heard, and then a voice came from on high, which said to me: "Cease your pondering, rise up, and go render unto God what you owe Him;"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 17 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 17)

  "" At these words, I rose, looked around me, and saw that it was already past nones, and when I saw this, I marveled greatly at the day which had passed so quickly;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 17 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 17)

  "Afterward I sang my hours, as they are to be said on that day."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 17 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 17)

  "And when I had said them, I"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 19 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 19)

  "and if I said that it was in the third heaven, where saint Pois was carried by the holy spirit, perhaps I would speak truth."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 19 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 19)

  "And when I had long gazed upon the marvels and seen them, and I responded that I did not think any could be so great, he told me that he would show me still greater ones."

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 19 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 19)

  "Then he took me and led me to another level, which was a hundred times brighter than glass, and so preciously colored that no man could certainly describe the color, so subtle and astonishing it was."

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 19 (segment 1) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 19)

  "that one would not have still a hundred thousand times more; and if I said that it was in the third heaven, where saint Pois was carried by the holy spirit, perhaps I would speak truth. But it would quickly"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 19 (segment 2) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 19)

  "spirit, perhaps I would speak truth. But it would quickly be taken for boasting and for falsehood, and nevertheless I will say this much: that there I was shown what saint Pois says that no tongue of mortal man should"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3)

  "and then I entered a small house and ate such food as our Lord had provided me."

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3)

  "Thus I passed that day and the next, until the day of the resurrection of the Savior came, and when it pleased Him that I had performed the service of the day, which is as exalted as our salvation — that very one who sanctified the day — I entered as a safeguard, for I ran first to the book to see the holy words, for they were so sweet and pleasing to hear that they made me forget all the hunger of the body."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3)

  "And when I came to the casket where I had placed it and I unlocked it, I found nothing there, and when I saw this, I was most grieved, for I did not know what to do with myself;"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3)

  "I began to wonder how it could have been removed from that place;"

• attestation: An imprisonment of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 3)

  "for I had locked it in the same manner as I had left it and had removed the key."

• attestation: The Narrator is mentioned in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27)

  "And when he had risen, he led me by the hand into his dwelling, and when we had supped, the good man asked me about my condition and my life."

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27)

  "it weighed heavily upon me, for God knows that I was not worthy to give it."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27)

  "And I answered him as best I could and knew, so much, God knows, that he believed there was far more good in me than there was."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27)

  "He showed me great joy and great companionship that night;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27)

  "nor ever in my life had I seen a man who bore a greater semblance of being truly an upright man, without showing the appearance of it any more than he could help."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27)

  "In the morning, the good man asked me to sing, and when we had sung, I took my leave;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 27)

  "and he told me he would accompany me."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28)

  "He begged me earnestly to remember him in my prayers and in my good works, that God might grant him to dwell in this region until the end."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28)

  "So we traveled, the beast and I, all morning straight through the forest;"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28)

  "beneath that pine there was a spring, the most beautiful that any man could ever see, to my thinking."

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28)

  "for the gravel was red as blood and hot as fire, and the water was as cold as ice, and three times a day it became as green as emerald and as bitter as the sea, for as long as the greenness lasted."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28)

  "And when the beast came to the pine, it lay down beneath it and made a show of resting."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 28)

  "And when I was about to sit down, I saw coming across the heath a young man on a trotting horse, and he was coming"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "And when he had come to the spring, he dismounted from the horse, and drew from his neck a towel, and knelt before me and said to me: "Sire, my lady greets you, she whom the knight with the golden circlet rescued from her loss, the day the great marvel was seen of the one you know, and she sends you such food as she has."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "" Then he unfolded the towel and drew from it eggs and a very white cake, all warm, and he brought out a small barrel full of ale and a little cup."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "And I ate most willingly, for I was very hungry from the journey that had wearied me;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "and when I had eaten and drunk, I gathered up the remainder and told the young man that he should convey my thanks to his lady and may God give her reward for it."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "Then the young man went away and I went back on my road, the beast and I, and we traveled all day, until it began to grow dark, and we never came out of the woods, until we came to a crossroads where there was a wooden cross."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "And then the beast stopped and began to listen, and presently I heard horses coming at great speed, until I saw a knight coming on a palfrey with many others alongside him;"

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "and as soon as he saw me, in a religious habit, he leapt down from his horse and the others did likewise;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30)

  "And he immediately called his squire and commanded him to take their horses and to prepare the finest lodging he could."

• attestation: A social role or service relationship is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30)

  "The squire turned back and the others remained with me."

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30)

  "and never did I see greater honor done to a man than he did to me, and his household likewise, which was very fine."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30)

  "But one thing troubled me more than I would have wished: he recognized me by a mark that I had upon me, and said that he had seen me before and told me where."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30)

  "But however much he questioned me, I never admitted anything to him, and when he saw that what he was asking displeased me, he let the matter rest."

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30)

  "But all the joys and all the honors that could be shown to a man's body, he showed me that night."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30)

  "In the morning, I departed;"

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30)

  "and when the lord had accompanied me a while, I asked him to turn back."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 30)

  "So we traveled through the whole forest, the beast and I, until it was near the hour of terce;"

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 31 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 31)

  "When I came to the monastery, I found a convent of nuns, very good ladies, who were singing the hour of terce, very well and very clearly, and when they learned that I was a priest, they asked me to sing and I sang."

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 31 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 31)

  "When we had performed the service, the ladies had me break my fast and afterward they begged me earnestly to stay until the next day."

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 31 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 31)

  "And when I said that this could not be, I took leave of the ladies and departed."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 31 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 31)

  "And when we were within it, we traveled the length of the day, and never did we meet any earthly thing."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 31 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 31)

  "" And I looked to see what the beast was doing, and I saw no sign of it at all, for it had already gone."

• attestation: The Narrator is mentioned in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 34 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 34)

  "the words of the little book that I held open, you never saw any whirlwind go so swiftly or so hideously as they departed."

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 34 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 34)

  "And I drew near to the madman and placed the little book before his mouth, and at once the devil came out from below."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 34 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 34)

  "and when it was light, I came before him and asked if he would eat."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 34 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 34)

  "And he asked me who I was, and I said that he should have no fear, for I had come for his benefit, and he said that he would eat such food as he was accustomed to."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 34 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 34)

  "And I asked him what food, and he swore upon his faith that he had been a hermit for thirty-four and a half years, and for nine years and three and a half months he had eaten nothing but herbs and fruit and roots, nor would he ever, so long as he had life, eat any other food, unless God sent it to him."

• attestation: The Narrator is mentioned in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 35 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 35)

  "Then I left him alive but utterly weakened, like one who had eaten no food since the enemy first began to torment him;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 35 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 35)

  "and I said my hours and then vested myself and sang the mass."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 35 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 35)

  "and then a vision came to me: that I was at the foot of a hill above a spring, and there passed by an old man who carried in his lap apples and pears in great plenty and poured them into mine."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 35 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 35)

  "and I found everything that I had seen in the vision, and when the good man had put the fruit in my lap, he said to me: "Each day you will find your food prepared here, from the great master."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (brother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 35 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 35)

  "" Then I returned, and I found the brother awake;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 37 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 37)

  "And he who shall have always offended Him, if he ends in His service, all his misdeeds shall be extinguished and his service shall be rewarded a hundredfold."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 37 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 37)

  "Then I took my leave, and when he had accompanied me as far as the postern gate, we saw the beast that had guided and led me, and he asked me what it could be."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 37 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 37)

  "And I told him that I had no other escort, and that it was from God."

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 37 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 37)

  "And he said that the Lord was well worth serving, who knew so well how to guide His people in His work;"

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 38 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 38)

  "rather I brought it with me, for I greatly desired the company of the holy words that were in it."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 38 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 38)

  "afterward I ate what our Lord pleased;"

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 38 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 38)

  "That night a vision came to me: that the great master came before me in the same garb as he had done before, and he said to me: "On the first working day of the week that begins tomorrow, you must begin to write the book that I gave you in another place, so that you have it written before the Ascension;"

• attestation: A celestial being or divine intervention is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 38 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 38)

  "for it shall never be seen on earth until the hour comes when I ascended into heaven, but rather it shall rise into heaven at that very hour."

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 38 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 38)

  "And all the things that must be written, you will find in the cabinet that is behind your altar, and do not be dismayed that you have never done such work before, for no work can be done badly that is begun by me."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (mother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46)

  "there were still very few people who believed in him, save the glorious virgin maiden, his sweet mother, and his disciples who, on that day, were called his brothers."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46)

  "And if there were others who believed in him, there were very few, for the scripture says: "Fair Father, if it can be allowed that I need not endure this passion" — for he was not so grieved on account of the anguish of the body, but rather because he saw that his death had not yet redeemed anyone, nor did he see anyone whom he had won through his death, save only the thief who cried mercy to him on the cross."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 79 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 79)

  "traveled by land, and how he performed miracles and wonders for the blind and the crippled and the other afflicted,"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104)

  "" And he asked her for what she had brought him, and she showed it to him."

• attribution: The title emperor is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104)

  "Then the emperor asked: "Was he as worthy a man as he claimed?"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104)

  "" and they answered: "Yes, far more so."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104)

  "" And he said: "Have you brought me anything of his?"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104)

  "" And they said: "Yes, as we shall tell you."

• attribution: The title emperor is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104)

  "And when the emperor heard this, he was very glad and said: "This is a very good thing that you have brought, for never before have we heard tell of such a marvel."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104)

  "" And they said: "We do not think anyone who sees it could remain unmoved."

• attribution: The title emperor is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104)

  "" Then the emperor went to the woman;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104)

  "he showed her great joy and told her that she was most welcome, for he would make her a very rich woman, on account of what she had brought him."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104)

  "When she heard this, she was very glad and said to him: "Sire, I would most willingly do your pleasure."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 104)

  "he marveled greatly and said that it was the most beautiful likeness of a man that he had ever seen."

• attestation: A healing or recovery of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "and when he saw it, he was healthier than he had ever been."

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "Then he said: "Fair Lord God, whose is this likeness, which has so relieved me of all my pains!"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "" Then he cried out: "Break down this wall for me!"

• attestation: A healing or recovery of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "They found him entirely sound and healthy."

• attestation: A healing or recovery of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "Great was the joy that the emperor had for his son, who was entirely sound and healthy."

• attestation: A healing or recovery of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "And he asked where this had been taken from, and whose likeness it was that had healed him — something that no earthly man could do."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "And they told him what the woman had told them, and the other wonders that the pilgrim had seen."

• attestation: A death event (kill) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "And he asked his messengers: "Is it then true that they had killed so worthy a man as this one was?"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "" and they answered: "Yes."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "" And when he heard this, he was greatly angered, and said that they had done an evil thing, for he would never have joy again until they had paid for it."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "Then he said to his father: "You are neither king nor emperor nor lord of me or anyone else;"

• attestation: A healing or recovery of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 105)

  "but that Lord is emperor, who has such strength and such power that, from where he is, he gives such strength and such power and such virtue to his likeness that it has healed me — something that you nor any man could do."

• attestation: A celestial being or divine intervention is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144)

  "yet He did not beget Him carnally but spiritually."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144)

  "Neither was the Father ever made nor created nor begotten, nor was He ever born;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144)

  "but He was begotten, as you have heard and as I have told you concerning the spiritual begetting."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144)

  "And He was afterwards born of the virgin, but that birth was not according to the divinity, but according to the humanity."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (mother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144)

  "Thus you can understand, and must, that the birth through His mother was made carnally;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144)

  "but the birth that He had through His Father was spiritual: that through His mother was mortal, for that which was taken within the mother died, but that through the Father was everlasting, for that which He had from the Father never suffered death — that is the divinity, which shall never fail Him, but shall endure without end."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144)

  ""Now you have heard how the Son was begotten and born of the Father spiritually, and how He was born carnally of the mother;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (mother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 144)

  "next, you shall hear how the maidenhood of the glorious virgin maiden who was His mother remained just as whole, without damage and without breach, and just as much after as before;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145)

  ""This Holy Spirit was never made nor created nor begotten by the Father nor by the Son nor by anyone else;"

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145)

  "This Holy Spirit is comforter, and counselor, and purifier of hearts and of thoughts."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145)

  "This Holy Spirit made the prophets speak that which they said of God;"

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145)

  "and yet they did not know what they were saying, no more than a madman could make steady all the words that fly from his mouth, and all these things the Holy Spirit worked in them."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145)

  "And whoever is a true believer, he believes in and worships the Holy Spirit, just as he does the Father and the Son."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145)

  "The Father is perfect God, by Himself, and He has perfect divinity, whole and everlasting, without end and without beginning."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145)

  "The Son likewise is perfect God and everlasting, and He is equal to the Father according to the divinity in all things, but according to the humanity He is lower than the Father."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145)

  "For the Father is in all ways and entirely everlasting, but the Son according to the humanity is mortal."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145)

  "The Holy Spirit is perfect God, whole in Himself, according to the divinity He was equal to the Father and to the Son."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 145)

  "Thus the Father is God and the Son is God and the Holy Spirit is God."

• attestation: A death event (death) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147)

  "of death, to redeem man from the great sorrows into which he would fall through his wrongdoing."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147)

  "For this reason, the Father called upon the person of the Son to do so high a thing, as man was to be — whom He did not wish to form or establish solely to restore the tenth legion of angels, who had been cast out of heaven through their pride."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147)

  "And when man had transgressed the commandment of his Creator, by eating the fruit through the urging and the counsel of the woman whom the devil deceived, he was immediately cast out of paradise, and a most cruel word was spoken to him;"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147)

  "for his Lord who had made him in His likeness reproached him for the great comfort that he had enjoyed and had now lost through his wrongdoing, and named to him the great harm that he would suffer from it;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147)

  "for He said to him: "Because you obeyed your wife, whom I had given you, more than me who had made you, for this you shall always suffer pain, both you and your heirs, for you shall eat your bread in toil and in sweat and in pain, henceforth because of the transgression of the commandment which was forbidden to you, which you have committed."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 147)

  "And you," He said to the woman:"

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 148 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 148)

  "nor shall any woman ever give birth with so little sorrow that she does not endure more than her heart could imagine or her tongue could tell."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 148 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 148)

  "And so dearly have the heirs who issued from him paid for the sin of the first man, that there was never one among them who did so much good in his life that his soul did not go to hell as soon as it departed from the body;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Son of) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 148 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 148)

  "until the Son of God would suffer this great sorrow no longer."

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 148 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 148)

  "instead He entered for his sake into a prison, which was very narrow and unfit to house so high and so noble a lord as He who was master of all things;"

• attestation: An imprisonment of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 148 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 148)

  ""After He had been in that prison nine months,"

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 149 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 149)

  "It requires that a man be born in sorrow and in sadness and that he be conceived of man and of woman;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Son of) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 149 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 149)

  "but through the working of the Holy Spirit who descended through the ear of the maiden, into the glorious vessel of her blessed womb — in this vessel that the Holy Spirit came to purify, the Son of God took His dwelling, and thus was born from it so holily that never was the maidenhood of the glorious mother harmed by it, neither at the entering nor at the coming forth;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Son of) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 149 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 149)

  "Just so did the Son of God enter into the womb of the maiden without harming or diminishing her maidenhood, and without the conception of man or of woman."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (mother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 150 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 150)

  "The third was that His mother, who was a maiden, never lost her maidenhood by it, neither in the conceiving nor in the birthing;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (mother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 150 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 150)

  "rather, He who chose her to be His mother left it just as sound and just as whole and just as intact as He had found it."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 150 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 150)

  ""At His birth, the curse that was laid upon the first woman was broken, when it was said to her: 'You shall bring forth your offspring in sorrow.' For He was born so holily that there was neither pain nor anguish."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186)

  "would make him triumph over all his enemies, and that He would make him win the great joy that shall never end, if he would believe His counsel;"

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186)

  "Then a vision came to him in which he saw, in the middle of his house, the trunk of a great tree, but he could not perceive what tree it was, nor of what nature;"

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186)

  "And the other two had bark as clear as crystal."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186)

  "Beneath the first shoot on the right there were people of all kinds, and from among these people two departed from their company and went to a pit, and leaped in."

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 187 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 187)

  "but the core within, which was more beautiful and more noble and more radiant than I could tell or could imagine, made so great a leap as it fell that it launched itself into the pit where the people who had fallen in were."

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 187 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 187)

  "and when they had thus maimed it, both with the wounds they had made around it and the holes they had bored with the augers, a great stream of blood flowed from it, so much that all those who were there could have bathed in it;"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 187 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 187)

  "And when the king looked, he saw the tree flung forth from the pit, and it drew to itself a very great number of the people who were inside the pit and who clung to the branches all around."

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 160 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 160)

  "Thus he contradicted what he had previously judged, and he was so astonished that he did not know what to hold to: whether entirely to one tree, or entirely to three, so greatly was he astonished and bewildered."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 160 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 160)

  "that he had truly distinguished all three one from another and recognized them, afterward it seemed to him that he saw only a single kind of leaves and wood and fruit, and that the three trees he had previously distinguished as three things were now only a single thing."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 160 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 160)

  "While he was thinking about this thing that he"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 165 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 165)

  "and brought them across the Red Sea on dry land, and led them into the desert, where you did more for them than they deserved toward you; rather they angered you many times, and yet you always delivered them from all tribulations and placed their enemies beneath their feet:"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 165 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 165)

  "and brought them across the Red Sea on dry land, and led them into the desert, where you did more for them than they deserved toward you;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170)

  ""Hear this, Christian, you who are the new people of the true crucified one: I have so loved you and held you dear that I have placed in you my Holy Spirit, whom I sent to earth for love of you, from on high where he was in the exalted glory of my dear Father, which shall never fail."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170)

  "Now listen then to what God your Lord and your Father will tell you."

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170)

  "they thought they were all bewitched because of the fire they saw entering their bodies."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170)

  "Thus they remained a long while without any of them speaking a word from their mouths, so terribly astonished were they."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170)

  "After the coming of that sweet wind, they heard a voice that spoke aloud to them, just as you shall hear, and said to them: "Listen to me, my new people, I am your spiritual father who have claimed you and won you against all the world through my flesh that I suffered to be torn and broken to redeem you, and my blood that I willed to shed;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 170)

  "and because I have shown you such great love, that I redeemed you with my flesh and my blood, which no earthly father would ever do for his son, for this you must well show me that you love me with greater love than any earthly son loves his father."

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171)

  "have placed you in greater honor and greater lordship than your ancestors were in the deserts, where I gave them, for forty years, all that their hearts desired;"

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171)

  "For I have given you my Holy Spirit, a gift I never bestowed upon them nor entrusted to them."

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171)

  "Now take care, then, that you do not turn to their wickedness, for I did them all manner of good and they did me all manner of evil."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171)

  "For I came to summon them and call them to my great feast and my great joy of my wedding that I wished to make between myself and holy Church, and they did not deign to come, nor did they ever wish to acknowledge me, who had done them every good."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171)

  "And because I came among them in poverty, they said that I was not their God."

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171)

  "And they had such great scorn that I dared say I was their God that they seized me at once like a thief in secret and tore my flesh, and tore apart my limbs and my body."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 171)

  "For the great honors I had done them, they repaid me with spitting and striking, and for the sweet drinks I had given them in the deserts, they gave me upon the cross the vilest and most bitter drink they could find."

• attestation: A death event (death) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 172 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 172)

  ""After all this, they gave me death, and I had given them earthly life and promised them everlasting life;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 172 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 172)

  "thus I found them, entirely and completely, treacherous and cruel stepchildren, to whom I had always been a gentle father;"

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 172 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 172)

  "but take good care that you do not become like that wicked lineage."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 172 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 172)

  "If you conduct yourselves as loyal and gracious fathers, then I will do more for you than I did for my prophets, who served me, in times past, with good heart and good will."

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 172 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 172)

  "For if they had my Holy Spirit with them, so too shall you have it."

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186)

  "carry his feet along the path where the disloyal and the sinners walked, and who did not sit in the chair of destruction;"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186)

  "but he set his will and all his strength upon fulfilling the commandment of the law of our Lord;"

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186)

  "The one you have put on over your tunic signifies chastity."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186)

  "For this is a virtue by which the soul, when it departs from the body, goes away white and clean, and it accords with all the goods of the soul, that is, with all the virtues that are within it."

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186)

  "The other vestment above that one is likewise white and signifies virginity."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186)

  "That other vestment with which the head is covered signifies humility, which is contrary to pride, for pride always goes about fiercely with head held high, but humility goes gently and softly, with head bowed."

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 186)

  "Not as the Pharisee did in the temple, when he prayed and said: 'Fair Lord God, I give you thanks and mercy that I am not as disloyal as my other neighbors are,' but rather as"

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188)

  "likewise charity sets all things at one price and loves all things equally;"

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188)

  "And this virtue is one of the members of righteousness."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188)

  ""Now I have told you of the band on the arm;"

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188)

  "The one around the neck signifies obedience, for just as the ox bears the yoke for the plowman, so must one be obedient."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188)

  "This last vestment, which is above all the others, signifies charity."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 188)

  "For it is entirely red, and whoever has charity within him is hot and glowing, just like a burning coal, and is willing and eager to hold dear what he must: that is, to love God his Lord with all his heart and all his mind, and afterward, to love his neighbor with close counsel;"

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189)

  "When he has anointed him with his words so much that he has brought him to mercy, then he must prick him with the bottom end of the staff, which is to say that when the priest has so softened the sinner that he has made him acknowledge his Creator and renounce the devil, then he must prick him: for he must lay upon him the burden of great penance, so that he may be pricked and goaded to atone in sorrow for what he did in joy."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189)

  "This staff that you hold in your hand signifies three things: vengeance, and mercy."

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189)

  "For the top should first call the sinner to summon him to confession, and lead him so far through words that it makes him confess his sins to the honor of God and to the shame of the devil."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189)

  "Now I shall tell you what the ring on your finger signifies."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189)

  "It signifies marriage."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 189)

  "For when the bishop is consecrated, he is joined to holy Church by marriage, and from that time forward, he must keep her sound and whole as his loyal spouse."

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 191 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 191)

  "Satisfaction is when a sinner, having acknowledged his sin, performs the penance, such as the priest lays upon him, and suffers the pain with good heart and good will."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 191 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 191)

  "And because confession is the highest thing there is, as that which receives at a single stroke all the damages and all the losses, for this reason it is signified by this cap, which is the highest of all the vestments."

• attribution: The title bishop is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 191 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 191)

  ""Now you are anointed and consecrated, and I have given you the order and the high office of bishop, to teach my people and confirm them, and to exalt my new law;"

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 191 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 191)

  "and I wish you to be guardian of their souls, and whatever I lose through your failing, I shall demand it of you and hold you to account on the great and fearful day, when I shall come to take vengeance and justice upon all the misdeeds that all the repentances of"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 191 (segment 1) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 191)

  "confessed; rather, he must first make satisfaction. Satisfaction is when a sinner, having acknowledged his sin, performs the penance, such as the priest lays upon him, and suffers the pain with good heart and good will. Here you may understand"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 195 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 195)

  "when they came out of the ark, all three, so that all the people saw them, a voice spoke and said:"

• attestation: A death event (kill) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 249 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 249)

  "marvelous feats of prowess: he killed and struck down horses, he hacked through shields and helmets, he kept up the fight until his four companions were slain and cut down before him, before his very eyes."

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 249 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 249)

  "And when he saw his companions dead, he immediately gripped his sword tight and leapt over the fallen bodies that were around him, and charged with his axe at a knight who had been hurling javelins, axes, and knives at him."

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 249 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 249)

  "And when that man saw him coming, he tried to dodge, and as he dodged, there where the left arm joins the body, he struck him so hard that the arm flew to the ground with the shield still attached, and the blow descended upon his side;"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 249 (segment 2) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 249)

  "before him, before his very eyes. And he had struck down so many men and horses all around him that the heap was so great that no one could reach him anymore except by throwing. And when he saw his"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 249 (segment 3) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 249)

  "him anymore except by throwing. And when he saw his companions dead, he immediately gripped his sword tight and leapt over the fallen bodies that were around him, and charged with his axe at a knight who had been hurling"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 269 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 269)

  "And as soon as he had read it, he said:"

• attestation: The Narrator is mentioned in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270)

  "'Beautiful daughter! I wish that you believe in the one who healed me."

• attestation: A healing or recovery of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270)

  "I wish that you believe in the one who healed me.' And I was foolish and a child;"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270)

  "I thought that she was speaking of the good man, so I told my lady that I would not dare."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270)

  "And she asked me why, and I told her because he had too great a beard."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (daughter) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270)

  "And the good man began to laugh at what I had said about him, and he said to me: 'Beautiful daughter, it is not I, but rather another who is full of all beauty and all joys.' And I asked where he was and that he show him to me, and if he were more beautiful than my brother, I would believe in him."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (brother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270)

  "This brother of mine of whom I spoke was so beautiful that no likeness could be made of him, to my thinking."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (daughter) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 270)

  "And as soon as I had said this, the hermit answered me: 'Beautiful daughter, soon you will see the one I have told you about, who is so beautiful, and your brother, and whichever of them you see first, never after will you see the other.' And as soon as he had said this, there appeared a very great light outside of

the chapel, so very precious, and with it a figure of a man so very beautiful and so very bright that there are in this"

• attestation: The Narrator is mentioned in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277)

  "pray you and beseech you and command you that, as soon as I am dead, you go to the holy man from whom we received the holy faith, and tell him to be e"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (daughter) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277)

  ""Beautiful dear daughter, I now leave you, and I pray you and beseech you and command you that, as soon as I am dead, you go to the holy man from whom we received the holy faith, and tell him to be ever mindful to remember in his prayers the soul of this sinful woman, and ask him, for the blessed love of the Lord in whose service he lives, that he accompany you with that Lord before you pass from this sorrowful life, without receiving your everlasting salvation."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277)

  "But take this white box, for he himself gave it to me, and put within it what the good man will give you, and look upon it each day, and entreat him with sighs and tears that he, by his mercy, defend you so that no desire comes to you to believe in or worship any other, for there is no other in whom one should place one's faith or one's thought."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (mother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277)

  ""

"In this manner my mother instructed me and taught me to do all those things that she knew were profitable for my soul, and to avoid all those things that might be harmful to me."

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277)

  "And when she had finished her speech, she commanded me to open the door of the chamber, and when I had opened it, the ladies and maidens came forward, of whom there was a great number."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 277)

  "And when they had come forward, she called me and whispered in my ear whether I saw anyone"

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 315 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 315)

  "his life, who did not go to hell as soon as the soul departed from the body;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Son of) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 315 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 315)

  "and so it was until that hour when the Son of God suffered death, and the people who remained and who broke the tree, and who sinned against the four branches and the trunk, signified the Jews who sinned against the Son of God by nailing his feet and hands with nails, and his sides with a lance, whereby his death was made manifest, just as the angel was telling me just now before you."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 315 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 315)

  ""Afterward the tree came and fell, so that all the bark remained there in a heap, and the inner part plunged down into the pit where all the people had leaped before."

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 315 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 315)

  "but when it had put it on, it was not the same as it had been before, but rather it changed entirely and was a hundredfold more beautiful and more clear than crystal — in such a manner was it transformed."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Son of) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 315 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 315)

  "When the Son of God had given up his soul on the cross, the body was placed in the sepulchre as a thing that was mortal, and of this thing my father can well be a true witness, for he laid him in the sepulchre with his own two"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "at ease, any day, until he knew of this vision whether it bore any truth, and whether it had appeared to them from God."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "Thus they returned to the palace deep in thought, and when they were both seated on a couch, without further company, they felt the palace trembling from its foundation up to the great vaults."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "Then there began to fall such great crashes of thunder, so terrifying, that they both truly believed the end of all things had come;"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "And amid all these things there came within such great darkness that no one who saw it would have believed they would ever see another hour of light."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 29)

  "And no one in the entire city saw these marvels except only those who were inside the palace;"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 341 (segment 2) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 341)

  "galleys as soon as they struck against their ship in the sea. They sailed on until they saw the rock, as high and marvelous as it was, and then they cast their anchors to wait for nightfall. And when a"

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 341 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 341)

  "When he had prepared his expedition, he put to sea, and he had stationed forty of the strongest men of his ship with twenty great iron hooks to seize the galleys as soon as they struck against their ship in the sea."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 341 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 341)

  "They sailed on until they saw the rock, as high and marvelous as it was, and then they cast their anchors to wait for nightfall."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 341 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 341)

  "And when a good part of the night had passed, they set out and sailed until they came near the rock, as close as one could throw a stone by hand."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 341 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 341)

  "and those who steered Pompée's ship knew well the strait by the rock, so they did not wish"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343)

  "to sail a direct course toward where they saw the fire;"

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343)

  "Then those who were inside began to cry out, and those in the other galleys thought the great ship had been wrecked, so they let loose upon them at once and attacked with five galleys."

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343)

  "And as soon as they came rushing in to strike, those inside the great ship threw their hooks at them and held them most vigorously until the others had all leapt aboard with swords and knives, and the sailors and soldiers lit the great blazing torches, of which there was a great supply on the ship."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343)

  "When the pirates saw that they could not escape, they drew back little by little toward the rock and threw themselves inside, those who could."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343)

  "And when Pompée saw them running to safety, he called out to his knights and swore that not a single one of them would escape."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343)

  "Then a good thirty of the best knights charged after them, but the robbers had already seized the top of the rock so firmly that they could not get the better of them;"

• attestation: A death event (slain) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343)

  "and those outside numbered thirty while those inside were only nineteen, for all the others had been either slain or thrown into the sea, and the robbers defended themselves for a long time."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343)

  "And when they began to tire, they let fall a great timber that was alongside a ship that had been"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343 (segment 1) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343)

  "to sail a direct course toward where they saw the fire; instead they went alongside, so that they trapped a galley between themselves and the rock, and they made it crash so hard against the rock that it broke apart"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343 (segment 2) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 343)

  "crash so hard against the rock that it broke apart entirely and flew to pieces. Then those who were inside began to cry out, and those in the other galleys thought the great ship had been wrecked, so they let"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344)

  "but it made him very angry and sorrowful for the knights he had lost, and because he considered it a great shame that he was lingering here to capture a band of robbers."

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344)

  "and then Pompée saw that the rock was so strong that it need not fear assault from any living man."

• attestation: A death event (kill) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344)

  "Indeed he said that it was still a great marvel that all his knights had not been killed in the attack."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344)

  "Then he called all his knights together and asked their counsel on how he could take the rock most swiftly without delay, and there was not one among them who could advise him on this, for they did not believe it could be taken without starving them out."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344)

  "And when he had thought, he said that he believed he could well bring it to an end."

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 344)

  ""For I have resolved," he said, "that I will suffocate them with the torment of fire, which I will have built at the foot of the rock, so that the flames will shoot into the entrance of the cave, and then they will have to die, for they will not be able to put out the fire since we will prevent them from down here in the"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347)

  "Thus Pompée went after them along the path and held in both fists an axe with which he dealt very great blows to those he overtook, and they kept fleeing straight toward the cave."

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347)

  "And many of them were wounded in the flight by the arrows that those below shot at them and by the stones they hurled at them, so that Pompée himself was wounded in three places."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347)

  "And when the robbers came fleeing to the cave, they did not find the entrance ready to their liking, nor could they enter freely, and those below were doing them great harm with arrows and stones that they launched at them, and the smoke had somewhat impaired their sight;"

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347)

  "so they could not enter the cave so quickly that Pompée had not first cut off their heads and knocked them down into the sea with the blows he dealt them with the axe."

• attestation: A death event (kill) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347)

  "Thus Pompée killed five of them in that charge with the axe, so that there were no more than fourteen left, and of those, six were wounded so badly that they could scarcely help themselves any longer."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 347)

  "And when the knights saw Pompée enter with such boldness, they fell in behind him along the path upward;"

• attestation: The Narrator is mentioned in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352)

  "bear to look upon and suffer that the filthy dogs made private chambers of the glorious places that our Lord had sanctified for his service."

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352)

  "Then he went straight to Pompée, and when he was before him he began to wail and cry out as if he were completely mad."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352)

  "Then he said: "Ha, Pompée!"

• attestation: A death event (slain) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352)

  "you have become Foucaire, and we thought that Pompée had slain Foucaire!"

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352)

  "But if Foucaire had brought this city under his lordship just as it was under yours, he would not have committed a greater disloyalty than you have, who have stabled these horses in the highest house, and the most honored that ever was."

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352)

  "The one who will dishonor you — that is the all-powerful Lord who made all things, whose house you have defiled."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352)

  "" Thus spoke the worthy man to Pompée, but he took it all for madness and rage;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352)

  "and nevertheless that man said nothing that did not later come to pass."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352)

  "For he had always been the most renowned knight that ever lived in his time, and the most feared."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 352)

  "But never again did he enter a field of battle where he did not fight"

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385)

  "a cross that was all vermilion, and then he was somewhat reassured, for he thought deep in his heart that in the company of the cross no thing could come from which harm might befall him."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385)

  "Then the fair man came forth from the ship, and the king, when he saw him coming, rose to meet him and said that he was welcome, and bowed to him."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385)

  "And the fair man began to ask him who he was;"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385)

  "and he answered that he was a Christian."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385)

  "And he began to inquire how he had come there, and he said in truth that he did not know how, except that he had found himself there in such a manner."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385)

  "Then the king asked him who he was, and that if it pleased him, he would tell him the truth."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385)

  "And the fair man answered that he was a craftsman, and of such a craft as had never been heard of before;"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385)

  "Then the king asked him what craft that was."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385)

  "And he said that he could indeed change an ugly man and an ugly woman into beauty, when it pleased him, and he could just as well make the fool wise and the poor man rich and the lowly man high, when it came to his will."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385)

  ""Truly," said the king, "this craft surpasses all those that any mortal man could know by himself, and if it please you, now tell me what you are called;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 385)

  "" and he told him that his name was: Tout en"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 7 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 7)

  "in truth, that he is outside of faith."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 7 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 7)

  "For since he has placed his body and heart in the faith of the Lord God, it is right that he should rely on Him for all the things he needs, for such is the custom of Our Lord, that He loves a man more and holds him in greater care than the man does himself;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 7 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 7)

  "And where a man takes it upon himself before God to manage his own affairs, there he falls into despair, just as if he said to the one who would blame him for it: "Good sir, do you then wish that I rely on God for all the things I need?"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 7 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 7)

  "" There that man falls from God into hopelessness, and this amounts to the same as if he said: if God wished to think about me and about all other people, and He wished to see all of that through to the end, all His thoughts would come to nothing, for He could not bring everything to completion."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388)

  "he who is in such a state of mind has no faith whatsoever;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388)

  "he said to his son:

"Dear son," said Salemons, "if you wish profitable counsel, I shall give it to you, and do not cast it away;"

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388)

  "rather keep it always enclosed and sealed within your heart."

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388)

  "Take care that you let the Lord God see to all your affairs, and never otherwise involve yourself in them."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388)

  "" While the man from the ship spoke these words to him, they were so deeply pleasing to the king that he was overwhelmed with listening, and he thought not at all about himself, nor about anything;"

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388)

  "nothing came to his mind except only what he heard, so much did what he listened to please him that he was for a great while like one to whom a vision appears in the night, who does not know for certain whether he saw it sleeping or waking, and who sometimes thinks he is asleep and sometimes thinks he is awake."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 388)

  "In just such a manner was the king, for he did not know whether he existed or whether he did not, and when he escaped from this reverie and came back to his memory as he had been before, he began to look around"

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364)

  "of Port péril, because this is the place at sea where the most treacheries and felonies have been committed, and so it is named."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364)

  "And if you wish to know how far you are from your land, know that from where you are to the beginning of your land is seventeen great days' journey."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364)

  "For no ship, no matter how good a wind it had, could be out of the sea if it set out from here in less than eight days, and from the edge of the sea to the beginning of your kingdom no one could travel without spending at least nine days."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364)

  "Thus you can see that between here and your land there is a distance of seventeen days' journey, and you can never go there in your lifetime, unless you are brought back and guided by me."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364)

  "" And when the king heard that he was so far removed from his kingdom, he was much more astonished than he had been before, and then he began again to think most anxiously;"

• attribution: The title King is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364)

  "and the lady said to him: "King!"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 364)

  "What are you thinking about so much?"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365)

  "The king was so stunned with thought and so overcome that he could not respond at all to what she had said to him, but rather was so lost in thought that he was utterly bewildered and distressed."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365)

  "And when she saw that he would not answer, she turned away;"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365)

  "and when she had cast off her ship and set it on its way, she said so softly that the king could barely hear her: "Ah," she said, "it is a wonder that no tree shall ever be more fruitful than the one that begins to bear fruit in its old age."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365)

  "" This word the king clearly heard, and then he raised his head and saw that she had already been driven a great distance out into the sea and that so great a tempest followed her that it seemed as though the entire sea must burst from its channel."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365)

  "And the ship went through the thickest of the storm so swiftly and so loudly that no blast of wind, it seemed, could go faster than she sailed."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365)

  "And the king stood upon the rock, and watched that tempest for a very long time, and marveled greatly at who that woman could be, whom such great and terrible wonders followed."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 365)

  "The king thought much upon that woman and was greatly grieved."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367)

  "hideous, as one that was in too wild a place, and cut off from all travelers, unless by chance some ship was brought there by fortune."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367)

  "Then the king climbed the steps and went up into the cave, and came to the entrance, and found it very black and very dark."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367)

  "And when he had stood a long while at the entrance, he said to himself that he would not lie outside in the open;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367)

  "then he hurried to enter within, and when he was about to set his first foot inside, he fell backward in a dead faint."

• attestation: An imprisonment of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367)

  "In this manner he fainted, and when he came out of his swoon he was all dazed, and saw that the door of the cave was completely blocked;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367)

  "and he listened, and heard so great a tempest coming from the sea toward the rock that it seemed to him the waves must rise up to the heavens and bring down all the earth and the firmament;"

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 367)

  "And when he saw that he had lost the sight of all things, he was so terrified that no one could"

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 368 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 368)

  "tell the tale of the great fear that he had, save only the one who after the great fear gave him the great comfort."

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 368 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 368)

  "And when he had long remained in that darkness, he had so lost his reason and his memory through the great fear he had felt, that he did not know where he was, nor did he remember any of the things that had befallen him."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 368 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 368)

  "In such a manner the king remained the whole night, remembering neither himself nor anything else;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 368 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 368)

  "And when it pleased our Lord, He spread the light of His day across the lands, and the rays of the sun cast their warmth throughout the world."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 368 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 368)

  "The king, who still lay upon the steps before the door of the cave, as you have heard, felt the heat of the sun, whose rays struck him upon the face, and then he opened his eyes just like one who awakens, and began to look all around him, and when he saw the sea, and the rock upon which he lay, he raised his right hand on high and made upon himself the sign of the holy cross, and at once recovered all his reason and all his memory, as he had had before, and set himself on elbows and on"

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370)

  "be cast down by the temptation of the devil, whose works and counsels I have forsaken."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370)

  ""

Then the king rose when he had finished his prayer, and when he had stood up again, he looked out to sea toward the east and saw again the beautiful silver ship that he had seen the day before, in which the fair man had come who had spoken to him at such length."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370)

  "And when he recognized it, he was greatly reassured by the good words that the man had spoken to him, which had made him forget all his sorrows."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370)

  "Then he began to reproach himself most severely for the faintheartedness he had felt the evening before, and he cried out to God for mercy."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370)

  "And when he saw the ship draw near, he came down from above and came to the foot of the rock below and looked: and he saw within the ship all the abundance and all the richness that one could describe, of all those foods that are fitting for a man's body."

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370)

  "And when he saw the lord of the ship, the one to whom he had spoken at such length the other time, he greeted him and told him he was welcome."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370)

  "Then the lord came out, and asked the king how he had fared since he had departed from him;"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370)

  "and the king said to him: "Truly, I had nothing but sorrow and grief from the moment you turned away from me."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 370)

  "" And then he told him his whole adventure just as it had befallen him, and about the woman who came"

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371)

  "And the lord of the ship answered him, laughing: "Ha!"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371)

  "Man of poor faith, sin and covetousness and the snare of despair have bound you;"

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371)

  "you should not have grieved over any hardship nor repented of suffering, since you suffered it for the love of your Creator."

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371)

  ""

"Our Lord," he said, "is always prepared to aid all those who call upon Him with good heart in truth, and in this you must place your trust."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371)

  "For if you believe in Him perfectly, you shall have all that your heart desires without fail, and if you are bound and imprisoned, you must not be dismayed by that;"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371)

  "in the ship, and the other wonders that he had seen and endured all through the night."

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371)

  ""

"Our Lord," he said, "sets free the prisoners;"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371)

  "our Lord restores the sight of the heart to those blinded by earthly frailties;"

• attestation: A healing or recovery of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371)

  "our Lord heals the wounded and raises up the afflicted;"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371)

  "our Lord loves and holds dear those who are righteous;"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 371)

  "our Lord guards and sustains the strangers;"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373)

  "the Lord restores the sight of the heart to those whom mortal things have blinded;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373)

  "and when they are willing to heed His medicine and His counsel, and how He sets free the prisoners of whom David speaks, as I have told you."

• attestation: An imprisonment of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373)

  ""

"It is true that as long as a man is in sin, so long is he in prison;"

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373)

  "for he is bound by the bonds of the devil, and as soon as he comes to the fountain of counsel, that is to the path of confession, at once the devil loses what he held there, and then the man is unbound."

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373)

  "For once he renounces and repudiates what he has held from the devil, then his bondage is ended."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373)

  "Nor from that point forward can the devil claim anything in him, nor shall he ever again fall into his bonds, unless he returns to his former works."

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 373)

  ""

"There are many men in this world who are well formed in all the limbs of the body, yet are so severely crippled that they cannot walk;"

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 374 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 374)

  "But as soon as the soul can recover these virtues, at once it is set upright, for the body is well sustained where the limbs are sound and whole."

• attestation: A healing or recovery of a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 374 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 374)

  "And thus the Almighty raises up and heals those who through the corruption of the body are crippled and maimed in the soul."

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 374 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 374)

  ""

These words spoke the lord of the ship, and he greatly comforted the king through his sayings and through his counsel, and the king asked him whether he knew that lady who had come to him and who wished to lead him away."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 374 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 374)

  "And he answered him: "You saw her very beautiful and very richly dressed and adorned, and know truly that once, in times past, she had great beauty and riches a hundredfold more than she has now;"

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 374 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 374)

  "but when she saw that I had so exalted and elevated her that I had placed my entire household at her will, she grew proud, and she resolved that she would not content herself with that much, but would go so far as to be as much a lady as I was lord, and that I would have no power over her."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 375 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 375)

  "And when I saw that she harbored such folly toward me, I would not suffer her to be any longer in my company, but cast her out at once from my house, on such terms that she never again had such great beauty nor such great ease, and from that time forward there was never anyone whom she thought I loved, that she did not willingly set about devising some scheme and taking pains to find how she might turn that person against me, so that they would forsake and abandon me."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 375 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 375)

  "so think on Him so much that no promise of ease or riches can bend or sway you from being at all times devoted to fulfilling His commands."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 375 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 375)

  ""

Thus spoke the man of the ship at great length to the king, and told him all the ways of good words by which he might be held in firm faith, and kept far from the paths of the devil."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 375 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 375)

  "And the king listened to him most willingly and most attentively, and was greatly pleased by what he said and by the wonders"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376)

  "then the lord of the ship came forward, took him by the right hand, and called him by his baptismal name, and asked him if he was hungry, and the king replied that there was no hardship so great that he would not forget it if he could be long in his company."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376)

  "And he took him and led him to the ship and showed him the great richness of all the fine foods of which he had great plenty of every kind that heart could imagine and tongue could speak and tell."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376)

  "Then he said: "All these foods that you can see here I set before you freely, that you may take of them and of whichever kind pleases you to eat."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376)

  "" And as soon as the king had seen this great marvel, he was sated merely from the sight of it, so that he felt no hunger at all, no more than if he had just now eaten, and he said: "Sire, I would have you know that I am right now so refreshed by your good words and by seeing these fine foods that are here, that if this feeling that now holds me were to last forever, never on any day would I have desire to eat or to drink;"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376)

  "but since you have so comforted me, counsel me, if it please you, as to what I should do, for since you are a true knower of all thoughts, you know mine as well and you ought to counsel me according to what I am thinking."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 376)

  "" And he answered him:"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379)

  "and if you can thus weigh the one things against the others, so that you know how to choose and turn toward yourself the most profitable and refuse the harmful, by this the evil temptations of the everlasting enemy will be driven away from you and kept far off, and you will be brought near to everlasting counsel."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379)

  ""

In this manner the man spoke to the king at great length, and the words pleased him greatly and brought him great comfort, and at the end the king asked him: "Sire!"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379)

  "" and he said to him: "You will remain here until the devil casts you off with his left hand;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379)

  "" With that he fell silent and spoke no more."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379)

  "And the king was very astonished and frightened by these words that he had said to him, about the devil who would cast him out by the hand."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379)

  "Then he bowed his head toward the ground and began to think very deeply."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379)

  "And while he was lost in thought, the lord went back into the ship and departed at once without another word."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 379)

  "And when the king had been so long in his thought that he had brought it to its end, he began"

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380)

  "to look around him, but he saw nothing at all, neither the man nor the ship, and he climbed back up all the steps to the door of the cave, and gazed far out over the sea;"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380)

  "Then the king sat down and began to think very deeply about who this man could be who so described to him the things that had happened to him and that were still to come;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380)

  "he blamed himself very severely for not having questioned him further and inquired, and for not having asked him whether he was God or not, and of this much he resolved firmly in his heart that he would ask him at once if he could ever live long enough to see him again."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380)

  "Thus the king spoke to himself, until he heard the waves of the sea which were sounding and making a very great noise."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380)

  "Then he rose and looked toward the west, and saw coming from the west that ship in which he had seen the lady the other time, and when he saw the ship, he was very frightened;"

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 380)

  "for he greatly feared that the lady who was coming inside it might be of evil origin, and that she had come to ensnare and seduce him."

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 387 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 387)

  "and teeth all just the same, and the head was shaped entirely in the manner of a horned serpent, and it had a body just like a dragon's and a chest fashioned like a lion's, and its feet were both exactly alike in shape;"

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 387 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 387)

  "and behind, across the loins, it had other wings that were as white as snow and as thunderous as a hailstorm when it falls in a strong wind through a thick mass of branches;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 387 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 387)

  "and the tip of the tail was as sharp as a sword and as blazing as a bolt of lightning descending when it strikes below."

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 387 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 387)

  "and the divine scripture attests that it never flies except to terrify those men or women in whom the savior of the world wishes to test his"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (mother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389)

  "And when the mother of the birds has found that stone, she rubs against it and strikes it with her beak until she feels herself grow warm, and then that heat is not enough for her."

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389)

  "and then she takes flight and returns to her eggs, and when she arrives there, the fire has so fiercely burned within her body that she can no longer help herself, and because she feels the great heat that is in her body, from which she cannot cool down, she knows well that the eggs would burn likewise if she were to sit upon them."

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389)

  "Then she draws back a little from the eggs, and the great heat that rises from her warms the eggs so that the birds within them hatch, who would have died of cold were it not for this."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (mother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389)

  "And when the mother is all burned and turned to ash, the birds gather around and sustain themselves on that stone, and they eat enough of it until they have a little strength in their bodies and limbs, and when they have eaten the dust that is from the mother, never after will they taste any other food on any day;"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389 (segment 2) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389)

  "heat is not enough for her. For it seems to her to be small against the very great cold she has so long endured, so she rubs more and more until she feels the great heat; and then she takes"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389 (segment 3) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389)

  "until she feels the great heat; and then she takes flight and returns to her eggs, and when she arrives there, the fire has so fiercely burned within her body that she can no longer help herself, and because she"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389 (segment 4) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389)

  "that she can no longer help herself, and because she feels the great heat that is in her body, from which she cannot cool down, she knows well that the eggs would burn likewise if she were to sit upon"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389 (segment 6) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389)

  "eggs so that the birds within them hatch, who would have died of cold were it not for this. And when the mother is all burned and turned to ash, the birds gather around and sustain themselves on that stone,"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389 (segment 7) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389)

  "the birds gather around and sustain themselves on that stone, and they eat enough of it until they have a little strength in their bodies and limbs, and when they have eaten the dust that is from the mother, never"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389 (segment 8) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 389)

  "have eaten the dust that is from the mother, never after will they taste any other food on any day; then come the two that are male, who are so proud and so fierce that the one cannot endure the"

• attestation: A death event (kill) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390)

  "wants to have lordship over the third bird, which is female, and because of this there grows among the three of them great hatred and great strife, until the two males fight each other and kill one another: so there remains only the female, who is called Serpilions, and the stone from which she burns herself is called Pirastite."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390)

  "Such was the bird that descended upon the king on the rock, and when he had put to his mouth the bread that he had found upon the step."

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390)

  "When he heard it coming as it descended roaring, he was seized with very great fear, and the bird, with all the great force of its descent, struck the bread that he was holding so hard that it knocked it flying from his fists and falling into the sea."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390)

  "And when it had done this, it soared upward very swiftly and then came back again roaring, and found the king lying stretched out on the ground;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390)

  "and it let its right wing sweep forward and struck him so that it tore away all his hair down to the nape of his neck and slashed all his clothing down to the skin."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390)

  "Then the bird departed with such thunderous roaring that no one could tell the truth of it who had not seen it."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 390)

  "And the king lay in a swoon on the ground for a very long time;"

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 391 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 391)

  "And when he saw the daylight, he was greatly relieved, compared to what he had endured all night, for he had been in fear and misfortune;"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 391 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 391)

  "and when he called to memory what he had felt in his great hunger and the bird that had snatched the bread from him, he began to sigh very deeply and to weep most tenderly from his eyes, and he said: "Fair Lord God, true Redeemer, who have redeemed me from everlasting destruction, I worship you and give thanks that I have seen that my sin, which I wished to commit, has grieved you, for you had sent me so many words of solace and comfort that I should well have forgotten the hunger of the body in order to satisfy the hunger of the soul."

• attestation: A death event (death) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392)

  "for such harm as to lead me to death."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392)

  "And because you have made so clear a demonstration of it, my mouth shall never taste, in this peril where I am, any food, however much the body may suffer for it, unless you, by your kindness, send it to me, nor shall I ever set foot outside this rock, unless you, by whose will I believe I came here, lead me out."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392)

  ""

In this manner the king remained on the rock for eight days, and each day the man from the ship came forward and the lady after him, and the man spoke to him all the good words that could serve to comfort and relieve him, and the woman spoke to him all those words that could be harmful to his soul and his body."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392)

  "And when the ninth day came, the man from the ship came to him again and greatly comforted him, and told him that now the time of his deliverance was approaching, if he knew how to guard himself against the snares of the devil;"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392)

  "and the king asked him how;"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392)

  "and the man told him: "If you can keep yourself all day today from angering your Lord, you will be immediately delivered from all the fears and all the earthly ills that have befallen you;"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 392)

  "if you do not anger Him, if you keep yourself from believing any counsel that goes against His will, such as leaving this rock, you will have passed through great sorrows and great and most wondrous fears, which will befall you in such measure, if you do not deign to guard yourself, that you will scarcely come through them delivered."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393)

  "Then he departed, and the king remained very glad and very joyful, and resolved firmly in his heart that never, for anything he might see on the rock, would he stir."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393)

  "Thus he remained a very long time until it could well have been past nones, and he looked far out to sea and saw a very great and very splendid ship coming, but he saw neither man nor woman on it."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393)

  "The ship was of very great beauty and fitted with very rich quarters and very fine ones, and when it had sailed a very long time across the sea, the ship drew closer and closer to the rock, until the storm began to grow very fierce and was so great and so hideous that there was no living thing that would not have been afraid if it had seen it."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393)

  "And that ship went so far before the wind, now here and now there, that it came alongside the rock, and the wind held it so tightly pressed against the rock, on the side from which the wind blew, that it could not break free."

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393)

  "The weather was most grievous and violent;"

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393)

  "no one who saw it could have thought otherwise than that the end of all things had come."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393)

  "And the king sat upon the rock;"

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 393)

  "he had nowhere to shelter on the rock, for the part where the cave had been had fallen into the sea, from the blow of the lightning that had struck there, as the book has recounted earlier."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 394 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 394)

  "the ship, so great and so tall and so splendid and so beautiful as it was;"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 394 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 394)

  "Thus the king endured the anguish of that grievous weather in body and in heart: for he suffered the rain and the hail and the force of the wind, which was very great — that was the suffering of the body."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 394 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 394)

  "And never, for all these hardships, could he be brought to the point of entering the ship and abandoning the rock."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 394 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 394)

  "The king saw the weather changed and was very glad of it;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 394 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 394)

  "the weather grew warm, and it was very quickly dried."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 395 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 395)

  "The king felt that great burning heat, and if he had been in distress before, now his pain and his hardship increased a hundredfold;"

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 395 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 395)

  "He saw before him the ship all prepared, where he could have taken shelter, if he had dared, and escaped the sun;"

• attestation: A death event (death) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 395 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 395)

  "but he feared the anger of his Lord, for he was resolved to suffer death rather than abandon the rock."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 395 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 395)

  "Then he stood upright and began to marvel greatly at the great adventures that had befallen him and what they could signify."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 397 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 397)

  "it was different from all other horses, both in its neighing and in other things, and for this reason he believed he recognized it well."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 397 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 397)

  "He marveled greatly at the horse and the shields, how they had come to such a strange place, and what adventures could have brought them there."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 397 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 397)

  "Then the ship came right up to the rock, and the king rose to see who was inside and what manner of people they might be, and he looked: he saw that there was a very great number of very fine people, and he saw a man come out who very much appeared to be a knight;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (brother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 397 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 397)

  "and when the king saw him close to him, he saw that he had the body and the appearance of one of his knights who was the brother of his seneschal, the one who had been slain in the battle."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 397 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 397)

  "And when the knight saw him, he greeted him warmly, making a sorrowful face, and the king ran quickly to embrace him and asked him the reason for his expression, why it was so sorrowful and so sad, and the knight said to him:"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 402 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 402)

  "has sent me here to counsel you and to reveal your vision just as he showed it to you, so that you may know what it signifies."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413)

  "For he himself told of it when he came back to the dwelling."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413)

  "And when those who had found him raised him up and saw him in such a state, they were seized with great fear, for he had no power to say a word or to open his eyes, and they all truly believed he was dead."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413)

  "In this manner they carried him back to the house, and never a word did he speak from his mouth, nor did he ever open his eyes — and they all truly believed he was dead, for — he moved neither foot nor hand."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413)

  "And when they were in the house, they laid him in a bed, and his wife and his children and the rest of the household made such great lamentation around him, far too much."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413)

  "And when the hour of nones came, he let out a great cry, and his wife ran over in great fright, and she smelled that he stank so dreadfully that she nearly fainted from the very great anguish she felt from it;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413)

  "and he opened his eyes and looked all around him and said that they should bring him water to put out the fire with which he was burning, and his servants ran for the water in great haste."

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413)

  "they had thrown the water on his face on one side and the other, they saw that the right cheek was completely stripped of flesh, so that the bone of the jaw showed all white, and the flesh around it was as red as fire;"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413)

  "And as soon as they had thrown the water upon it, he began to cry out again and fainted so badly that no one who saw him could have believed other than that he"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413 (segment 2) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413)

  "the jaw showed all white, and the flesh around it was as red as fire; and they looked at the left cheek and saw it completely full of worms, and it stank so much that scarcely anyone could endure it."

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413 (segment 3) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413)

  "it stank so much that scarcely anyone could endure it. And as soon as they had thrown the water upon it, he began to cry out again and fainted so badly that no one who saw him could have believed"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413 (segment 4) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 413)

  "badly that no one who saw him could have believed other than that he"

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419)

  "When the lady learned that her lord was in prison, know that she had grief and anguish enough, and in her greatest sorrow that she lamented, the barons of the kingdom summoned her to surrender all her lands, and she was at Orbérique that day, which was the chief seat of the duchy;"

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419)

  "and she surrendered them very willingly because she thought she would thereby get her lord back from prison, but the counsel of Galaffre did not allow him to be released, as the tale has related earlier."

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419)

  "And when she saw that things had come to such a point that she would have neither her lord nor her land, she was far more sorrowful than before."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419)

  "Then the lady went to the home of a vavasor, an old man full of great loyalty, who had always been tutor to her son, and the lady had always loved him with a good love free of baseness, and she had given him many gifts on numerous occasions, both to him and to his wife;"

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419)

  "To the home of that vavasor went the duchess Flégétine, very sorrowful and very distraught, and he to whom she had given great gifts and shown high honors received her with very great honor and very"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419 (segment 1) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419)

  "In such a state was the lady as you have heard, and she was called by her name Flégétine. When the lady learned that her lord was in prison, know that she had grief and anguish enough, and in her"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419 (segment 3) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419)

  "at Orbérique that day, which was the chief seat of the duchy; and she surrendered them very willingly because she thought she would thereby get her lord back from prison, but the counsel of Galaffre did not allow him to"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419 (segment 4) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419)

  "but the counsel of Galaffre did not allow him to be released, as the tale has related earlier. And when she saw that things had come to such a point that she would have neither her lord nor her land,"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419 (segment 6) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419)

  "full of great loyalty, who had always been tutor to her son, and the lady had always loved him with a good love free of baseness, and she had given him many gifts on numerous occasions, both to him and"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419 (segment 7) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 419)

  "him many gifts on numerous occasions, both to him and to his wife; so it seemed to her that in that place she would find the greatest love more than anywhere else, because she had raised him from great poverty"

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421)

  "Long lasted the weeping and the cries of their grief and their anguish, but the queen, who was a very good and wise lady, first called the duchess to her and began to comfort her, and took great pains to calm her;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421)

  "and when she had spoken many words to her and shown her many things, she asked her in the end to come away with her, but the duchess would not put into action any word that she said to her, and instead said to her:

"Lady, truly I have come into the company of the man in the world in whom I have found the greatest loyalty;"

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421)

  "I would not leave him, lady, for since he accompanied me at the beginning of my exile, I ought well to accompany him when God grants me the restoration of my joy and my high estate, and less pain and sorrow shall I suffer here than I would suffer if I were with you, for neither one of us could see the other without her sorrow being immediately renewed."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (sister) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421)

  ""

The queen took great pains to find a way to bring her sister-in-law with her, but she would never leave the vavasor despite any prayer she could make to her;"

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421)

  "thus the queen departed, very sorrowful and very troubled, and she who remained did not feign or lessen in the display of her great grief;"

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 421)

  "rather, each day her weeping and her sorrows grew stronger."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 430 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 430)

  "From this it came about that it gathered impurity, such as a mass of earthly dross and the moisture of the water as well."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 430 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 430)

  "And when the sovereign father, who is the fountain of all wisdom, had separated one from the other and disjoined them, he set the sky in its rightful honor and brought it to its rightful pure cleanness;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 430 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 430)

  "for he made it bright and shining and light and full of all warmth, and the earth he left cold and heavy and made it a gathering of all heavy things."

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 430 (segment 1) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 430)

  "Thus you can understand the contrarieties of some and others, which harmed each other and could not endure that the earth, which is heavy and cold and a gathering of impurity, touched the sky, which is light and hot and"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 430 (segment 2) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 430)

  "impurity, touched the sky, which is light and hot and the fountain of all purity. From this it came about that it gathered impurity, such as a mass of earthly dross and the moisture of the water as well. And"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 431 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 431)

  "And because, by rightful reason, none of them should return to where it had come from — neither the earthly dross to the earth, nor the watery moisture to the water — because they had acquired some lightness and some warmth from the sky, and because the heat could not return to the sky, being tainted by the vileness of the earth and the water, it was therefore necessary that these three things come together into one mass."

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 431 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 431)

  "And lest anyone should say that the air was likewise heaped together with these three, and why then does this tale not speak of it — it is a proven truth that among these three residues there was some portion of air, and the tale agrees with this, but it says that there was so little of it that no account need be made of it for this matter."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 431 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 431)

  "Thus, as you have heard, the four parts came together into one mass and could not naturally return to any of these four elements, for the reason the tale has explained;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 431 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 431)

  "so it had to be in contention, and indeed it was, for as much of fire — that is, of the sky — as was in it was light and tended upward on high;"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 431 (segment 1) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 431)

  "you have well heard, is full of all purities. And because, by rightful reason, none of them should return to where it had come from — neither the earthly dross to the earth, nor the watery moisture to the water"

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433)

  "It is a proven truth that by the will and the pleasure of him to whom all things are obedient, that mass fell into the sea, and because it was drawn in one part toward lightness, according to what it felt of the sky, which is very light, it had no power to sink to the bottom."

• attestation: A geographical feature or location is described at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433)

  "In this manner it floated a very long time through the sea, for nowhere could it find a resting place, until it came into the western sea between the island of Oragrine and the port of the tigers."

• attestation: A geographical feature or location is described at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433)

  "In one part of that sea between the island and that port there is a very great quantity of lodestone at the bottom below;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433)

  "and you have well heard earlier that the tale said that as much earth as was in the mass was earthly dross;"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433 (segment 1) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433)

  "as it felt of the water, it was moist and shifting and pasty; but of air there was so little that it gathered no strength from it. And because all the heaviness of the four elements is in the earth"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433 (segment 2) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433)

  "the heaviness of the four elements is in the earth and in the water, for those two gather all heavy things, it remained with these two in such manner as you shall hear. It is a proven truth that by"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433 (segment 3) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433)

  "you shall hear. It is a proven truth that by the will and the pleasure of him to whom all things are obedient, that mass fell into the sea, and because it was drawn in one part toward lightness, according"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433 (segment 4) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433)

  "because it was drawn in one part toward lightness, according to what it felt of the sky, which is very light, it had no power to sink to the bottom. In this manner it floated a very long time through"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433 (segment 6) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433)

  "of Oragrine and the port of the tigers. In one part of that sea between the island and that port there is a very great quantity of lodestone at the bottom below; and you have well heard earlier that the"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433 (segment 7) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 433)

  "bottom below; and you have well heard earlier that the tale said that as much earth as was in the mass was earthly dross; and that stone called lodestone is of such a nature that it loves iron above all"

• attestation: A celestial being or divine intervention is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437)

  "overcome all earthly prowess, he shall think he has done nothing if he does not also see what is done in heaven."

• attestation: A celestial being or divine intervention is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437)

  "Then wings shall come to him and he shall learn to fly in his old age, and he shall fly above the heights of all the mountains and shall pass through the thickness of the clouds and shall enter heaven through the entrance of the master gate."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437)

  "" Thus it seemed to Nassien that the white bird spoke to him."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437)

  "Then his dream and his vision ended;"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437)

  "and he marveled greatly at what this could be and was very astonished by it."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437)

  "He raised his head upward and began to look all around him."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 437)

  "As he looked here and there, he heard a battle"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446)

  "Of so many kinds of colors was the stone, and it had other marvels besides."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446)

  "And when he had looked at it enough from all sides and had searched all the corners, below and above, he came back to the stern of the ship and began to look on one side and the other and saw a cloth all white spread out in the manner of a curtain above a great bed;"

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446)

  "he came to the cloth and lifted it, and when he had lifted it, he looked beneath and saw the most beautiful bed he had ever heard spoken of."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446)

  "The bed was very large and rich indeed and marvelously beautiful, and at the head of the bed there was a crown of gold, and at the foot there was a sword that was very rich and beautiful."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446)

  "It was laid across the bed and was drawn out a full palm's breadth from the scabbard."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446)

  "That sword was of very unusual workmanship, for the pommel was of a stone that had in itself all the colors one could find on earth."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 446)

  "For hereafter the tale says that the hilt of the sword was of two sides, and these two sides were made from two different beasts."

• attestation: A geographical feature or location is described at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 447 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 447)

  "The first was from a kind of serpent that dwells in Galidoine more than in any other land, and it is called Papaguites;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 447 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 447)

  "of this serpent such is the power that if any man holds one of its ribs or any of its other bones, he need not fear feeling any too great heat, neither from the force of the sun nor from the warming of exertion;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 447 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 447)

  "rather he is always at a moderate warmth as long as he holds it."

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 447 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 447)

  "This fish is called Cortenans, and its ribs are of such power that if a man takes one, as long as he holds it he will remember neither the joys nor the sorrows he has had, save only that one thing for which he took it;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 447 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 447)

  "Such force and such virtue have the two ribs from which the hilt of the sword was made."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 452 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 452)

  "All these things the tale does not reveal in this part, but when the time comes for the exaltation of the sword, when it shall be known and when it shall be called by its true name, just as the letters of the scabbard and of the sword tell, then shall the time and the place have come when the nature of the scabbard and of the straps and their virtues shall be shown openly;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 452 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 452)

  "but here the tale falls silent in this place concerning both the scabbard and the sword, and speaks of another matter."

• attestation: Narrative content at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 452 line 2 attests to events in the Grail history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 452)

  "The tale says here that in the middle of the bed, set exactly straight, there was a spindle fixed upright at the front; the bed, you should know first of all, had"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 452 (segment 1) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 452)

  "All these things the tale does not reveal in this part, but when the time comes for the exaltation of the sword, when it shall be known and when it shall be called by its true name, just as the"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 452 (segment 2) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 452)

  "shall be called by its true name, just as the letters of the scabbard and of the sword tell, then shall the time and the place have come when the nature of the scabbard and of the straps and their"

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "Between these three spindles there would be much to tell, if one were to describe all their features, but the tale says this much: that the first one, which stood upright at the front, was as white as newly fallen snow, and the one behind was as green as an emerald, and the one that went across the top of these two was as red as a drop of natural blood."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "and because those people who might hear this told would be doubtful and would consider themselves deceived if they knew no more about it, for this reason the tale now turns aside from the direct path of its matter, so that it may reveal the truth and dispel the doubt."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "for in the knowledge of the three spindles lies all the knowledge of the ship."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "It came to pass that when Eve the sinner, who was the first woman, had taken counsel from the mortal enemy everlasting, that is from the devil, who from that time began to deceive the human race in order to destroy it, and he had so persuaded her that he had inflamed her with the mortal sin by"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461)

  "and the fruit signified that it would set itself most vigorously to good works and would show the semblance of devotion and goodness in all things."

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461)

  "The darkness faded, and then they both perceived that our Lord had done this to cover their shame."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461)

  "They were very glad of it, and then a very great marvel occurred."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461)

  "nor did it ever appear so in any of them, except in that one alone;"

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461)

  "In that it lost its white color and took on the green, it signified that the virginity of the one who had planted it was gone;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461)

  "and the greenness that it took on, and the flower and the fruit, signified the blessed seed that had been sown beneath it, and that it would be forever green in the Lord God—that is to say, of good and loving thought toward its creator;"

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461)

  "and the flower signified that the creature that had been begotten beneath that tree would be chaste and pure and clean of body;"

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 461)

  "Thus was that tree of green color for a very long time, and all those that descended from it were likewise, until the time that Abelz was grown and

13***"

• attestation: A death event (slain) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46)

  ""

Thus did our Lord curse the earth, but he did not curse the trees that descended from that one, nor that one beneath which Abel had been slain, nor the other trees that descended from it, nor those that were afterward created upon the earth by his will."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (brother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46)

  "before David had prophesied it, when our Lord came to Kaïn and said to him: "Where is your brother?"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (brother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46)

  "" And he answered him like one who felt himself guilty of the treachery he had committed and who had covered his brother entirely with the leaves of the tree, so that he would not be found, and said, when our Lord had asked him where his brother was: "Lord," said Kains, "I do not know;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (brother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46)

  "am I my brother's keeper?"

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46)

  "" And our Lord said to him: "What is it that you have done?"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (brother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46)

  "The voice of the blood of Abiel your brother cries out to me because you have slain him, there where you have spilled it upon the earth;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (brother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46)

  "and because you have done this, you shall be cursed upon the earth, and the earth as well shall be cursed in all the works that you do upon it, because it received the blood of your brother that your hands spilled upon him without reason."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 46)

  "But of that one there came to pass a very great marvel."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 467 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 467)

  "And that tree grew and flourished, and so did all those that had descended from it—those of green color and those of white color—and they became so beautiful above all others that the people held them to be a very great marvel."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 467 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 467)

  "the blessed place, from which the enemy had cast them out by his cunning, they would return to that tree whenever they were in some distress, and all the wisest among them would take counsel about their troubles, and they afterward called it the tree of life and comfort."

• attribution: The title Lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 467 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 467)

  "And they lasted so long in that beauty until our Lord sent upon the earth his deluge, by which the old and wicked people perished so entirely that in all the world there remained no man or woman except only Noé and his household, whom our Lord had found so fitting among all the others that he willed that through"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 468 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 468)

  "But of those trees that were called trees of life, and of those that had descended from that one, such marvels were seen that they were changed neither in beauty nor in savor of fruit;"

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 468 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 468)

  "And when it came to pass that the waters, which before had been for a long time against their accustomed nature, returned to their former state by the will of the sovereign master, the earth was so damaged that never after did it yield fruit so good or so natural or so beneficial to bodies as it had done before;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 468 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 468)

  "rather, they remained in the same state as they had been, wherefore those who saw this said that truly that one was

as good as they had been before;"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469)

  "He was so wise in all branches of knowledge that one might well consider it a marvel, and yet he knew all the virtues of precious stones and the power of herbs and the course of the firmament and the stars, so that no earthly man could teach him anything;"

• attestation: A death event (death) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469)

  "trees of life and not of death, for where the trees had been close to perishing and dying, they had been protected from death."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469)

  "These trees remained in such beauty until Salemons reigned after King David his father, and to this Salemon God granted wisdom and discernment beyond what nature gives, nor does it extend to learning through study."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469)

  "His wife who was with him strove to trick and deceive him as much as she could, and he loved her so much that he could love nothing else as dearly."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469)

  "He guarded himself as best he could, yet he could never guard himself well enough, and this should not be considered a marvel, for without fail, once a woman sets her heart and her mind upon trickery, no wisdom of mortal man can prevail against it — and this does not begin with us, but with our first lineage."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 469)

  "When Salemons saw that he could not guard himself against the cunning of his wife, he marveled greatly at what this"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473)

  "and when she found a good moment, she entreated him by the faith that was between the two of them to tell her what he had thought about for so long."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473)

  "And Salemons, who knew her to be more cunning in malice and trickery than any man could be, thought that if a mortal heart could find a way to accomplish what he was thinking, she would indeed bring it about;"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (brother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473)

  "and for

*a better knight than Josué his brother-in-law, just as that virgin would be better than your wife is."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473)

  "would be established the goodness of his lineage, and he was very glad of it, and said: "Ah God!"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473)

  ""

Salemons pondered this matter for a long time, so much so that his wife whom he had noticed well that he had fallen into such a thought from which he could not free his heart;"

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 473)

  "and she was greatly troubled by this, for she immediately feared that he might intend to do her harm."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474)

  "Now teach me this," he said."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474)

  ""Willingly," she said, "send throughout your kingdom for all the carpenters you can find, and when they are all assembled, command them to build you a ship of such wood that it cannot rot, neither from water nor from any other thing, for four thousand years."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474)

  "While they prepare their ship, I shall prepare the other matters as you shall see."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474)

  "The next day, as soon as daylight appeared, Salemons sent out his messengers far and near to seek the carpenters, and so many came in so short a time that it was a marvel."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474)

  "" And Salemons placed great trust in what she told him."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474)

  "And when they were all assembled before him, he commanded them to build him a"

• attribution: The title lord is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474)

  "And then he revealed to her completely what he had thought about for so long, and when he had told her everything, she answered: "Surely, my lord, on this matter I could not yet advise you, but within a short time, in my opinion, I shall advise you well."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474)

  "" "We shall see," he said."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474)

  "On the third night after, it happened that they were together and she said to him: "My lord, I have thought of how the knight who will be the last of our lineage will know that you learned the truth of his birth."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 474)

  "" "Indeed," he said, "that pleases me greatly."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475)

  "" "Tell me," he said, "what weapons these might be, and if I see that they are fitting and I have them, I shall prepare them."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475)

  "" "And I shall tell you," she said, "what weapons would be worthy of him."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475)

  "ship of wood so fine and so tightly sealed that it would have no risk of rotting from being in water for four thousand years."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475)

  "And they said that they would do their best."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475)

  "And they labored and toiled so much that the ship was nearly completed within a short time."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475)

  "And his wife, who had ordered it to be made, said to Salemons: "My lord, since the one of whom you told me news will be such that he will surpass in goodness and knighthood all those who came before him and who will come after him, it seems to me it would be right that he should have some precious and costly weapon that he might carry in remembrance of you;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475)

  "and prepare it for his coming, and let that weapon be marvelous above all other weapons, as much as he will be marvelous above all other knights."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 475)

  "In the temple that you built in honor of your lord is the sword of King David your father, the richest and most marvelous that was ever forged and the sharpest that one could find, that was ever held by the hand of a knight;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476)

  "And then he set his mind and his care to making the scabbard in which to place the sword, but of what he made it from, the tale does not now tell at this point, because there is no great need for it now."

• attestation: A death event (kill) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476)

  "and when you have removed the blade and set it to one side, you who know the virtue of stones and the power of trees and herbs and the nature of all earthly things, make a pommel of precious stones so skillfully joined that no earthly eye after you will be able to tell one from another, and that everyone who sees it will believe it to be a single stone."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476)

  ""After that, make a hilt as marvelous in its own right as the sword will be in its own."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476)

  "When you have done all this, I shall put on the sword-belt such as pleases me."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (father) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476)

  "" He who was wiser than any other in knowing the virtues of stones and the power of herbs removed from the temple his father's sword, which he kept as reverently as he would a holy relic, then did everything she had prescribed, except for the pommel, in which he set only a single stone — but that one was of all the colors that one could find or describe by mouth."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 476)

  "(Afterward he made the pommel as beautiful and as rich as the tale has already described, and he put great effort into it.)"

• attestation: A death event (slain) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478)

  "Then she took carpenters and led them to the tree of life beneath which Abiel had been slain, and then said to them: "My lords, you must take from this red tree and from these others, of which some are white and others green, three spindles — one red, one white, and one green — with which the bed shall be framed, in the way I shall tell you."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (mother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478)

  "And so you may see in this sword the likeness of two women of whom I have heard you speak, for just as the virgin who is to come, as you said, shall make amends for what our first mother did wrong, just so shall that maiden make amends for what I have done wrong to this sword;"

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478)

  "" Salemons held this speech to be foolish, and he marveled greatly at how what she said could come to pass."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478)

  "When the ship was built and covered as richly as the tale has described, he placed the sword at the foot of the bed, and at the head of the bed he placed his crown — the one that King David had worn for many a day — and said that he left it for the knight, because he did not see that it could be put to better use anywhere else."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478)

  "will be a marvel to behold."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478)

  "And when he had done all this, the wife said that something was still lacking in the ship."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 478)

  "" And they said that they greatly feared to cut into the tree of life, because no one had ever been so bold as to"

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 481 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 481)

  "And when he had thus prepared the ship, he had it launched into the water right at the shore, and then said to his wife: "Lady, the ship is built and fully prepared, and yet I still cannot see how the knight will be able to know that I learned the truth of his coming."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 481 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 481)

  "" And she answered: "You shall be quite sure of it before long;"

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 481 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 481)

  "but now have two pavilions set up on that riverbank so that you and I and some of our company may remain there until we have seen what will happen to us with this ship."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 481 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 481)

  "" And he commanded at once that tents and pavilions be set up along the shore, for he wished to stay there until fortune had carried the ship away."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 481 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 481)

  "And those to whom the command was given did so straightaway."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 482 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 482)

  "Around midnight, it happened as they slept that Salemon had a vision in his sleep: he saw that from the heavens came a man with a great company of angels who carried various instruments in their hands, but he could not describe what kind, and yet he saw that the one whom the angels accompanied descended into the ship and took water and went around the ship and sprinkled it everywhere and said: "This ship is the pledge of my new house."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 482 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 482)

  "" Then he came to the side of the ship and had one of the company write letters, and when they were written they said in this manner: "Very false will he be who transgresses this writing."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 482 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 482)

  "" Salemon saw in his sleep the one who gave this command, and he was endowed with such very great beauty that no mortal heart could describe it nor any mouth speak of it."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 482 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 482)

  "He was so filled with wonder in his sleep that he awoke and opened his"

• attestation: Narrative content at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 482 line 1 attests to events in the Grail history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 482)

  "joy and slept until daylight within the pavilions."

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "eyes and looked toward the ship and saw quite openly the company just as he had seen it in his sleep."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "Then he heard a voice that said to him:

"Salemon!"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "For the knight who will be the last of your lineage will enter this ship and will have the sword that you have prepared for him, and he will know the truth about you, and never will anyone enter it unless he is such as he ought to be."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "" After these words, the company departed from the ship in such a manner that Salemon did not know what became of them."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "And when he had the power to rise, he got up and called his company and came to the ship, and when he tried to enter it, the voice said to him: "Draw back!"

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "If you enter the ship, you will perish;"

• attestation: A geographical feature or location is described at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "but let the ship go where fortune will lead it, and know truly that it will yet be seen in many foreign lands, both near and far."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "" And he drew back and looked at the letters on the side, which said: "Hear, you, man who wish to enter within me, whoever you may be, take care that you do not enter unless you are full of faith;"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "for there is nothing in me but faith and belief, and therefore know that if you waver in belief, however little, I will waver toward you in such a manner that you will have from me neither sustenance nor aid, in whatever place you are found in unbelief."

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "" And when he saw this inscription, he drew back away from the ship, for he well knew that he was not worthy to enter within."

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 483)

  "While he was among his household, as if utterly astonished, the wind struck the ship and carried it away from the shore in a short time, and bore it out to sea in such a manner that Salemon and the woman"

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493)

  "by the bed you should understand a sign of ease and rest, by which one may, quite equally, compare the bed to the manner of the cross, for a similar thing."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Son of) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493)

  "For just as after the weariness of labor every earthly man seeks the rest of the bed, so too should you understand that after the weariness and the labor of the great pains and the great anguishes of hell, the human race took rest and ease in the stretching out that the Son of God made of himself, upon the true cross, on that very day when he suffered death to deliver sinners from the sorrowful prison."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493)

  "Now I have explained to you the meaning of the ship and of the bed that you saw within it."

• attestation: A religious ritual or devotional act is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493)

  "Now I shall tell you what the three spindles signify."

• attestation: Physical suffering or bodily detail is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493)

  "For not without great meaning was the bed surrounded by the three spindles of which I speak, just as you yourself saw them, one white as snow and the other red as a drop of blood and the other as green as an emerald: and I shall explain to you what this may signify."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 493)

  ""By the white spindle with which the bed was surrounded, you should understand that wholly and truly, before and after, virginity was preserved, so wholly that when he appeared in the blessed virgin, neither at the entering nor at the departing was virginity ever corrupted"

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494)

  "Rather he entered as wholly as through a closed door and departed as sacredly so that it was never harmed or diminished."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Son of) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494)

  "By the spindle that was red in its natural color, you should understand charity, which was so great and so marvelous in the Son of God that he delivered his body to death and to suffering, to redeem mankind from mortal bondage, in that high gift that he made of himself;"

• attestation: A death event (death) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494)

  "when he, who was life without root and without stain of death, delivered his mortal flesh to the death in which he was wrapped, you may understand that he had lodged within himself the fountain of charity and of pity."

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494)

  "Patience is signified by the emerald which is green in all seasons, and so too you may see of patience, for it is ever in greenness and in living strength so that it cannot be moved either by adversity or by misfortune, once it is well rooted in the heart of a Christian, and likewise he who has lodged it within himself comes to victory and achieves it by sheer force."

• attribution: A figure is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494)

  "For this you know well, that one cannot so well vanquish one's enemy as by enduring."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (Son of) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 494)

  "For it ought well to be so, since it was a sign of that true cross where the Son of God was struck with the anguish of death, for was he not then without these three things?"

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497)

  "Then he began to lament greatly to himself, as best he knew how."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497)

  "And while he was there, the weather began to change and to darken and to make such foul and sorrowful weather that it was a marvel to behold."

• attestation: A death event (death) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497)

  "The child, who saw the storm so marvelous and the waves of the sea so great and so terrifying that no one could be there who would not fear death, was afraid and fearful that the waves, so great did he see them, would come all the way to him, and for this reason he drew himself back from the shore and came toward a rock that he saw was split open;"

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497)

  "and he gazed out all the while upon the sea, as far as he could see, and he kept watching for so long because he saw rather near to him two ships that the tempest and the storm were driving across the sea, and those who were within them cried out in loud voices to the masters: "Land us, or we are all dead, not a foot of us will escape!"

• attestation: A geographical feature or location is described at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497)

  ""

While they were crying out in such a manner, it befell them so well that the two ships landed safely there where Gelydoines was in the rock;"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497 (segment 1) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497)

  "in the great company of people, then he was not at ease, but sorely frightened. Then he began to lament greatly to himself, as best he knew how. And while he was there, the weather began to change and to"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497 (segment 2) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497)

  "he was there, the weather began to change and to darken and to make such foul and sorrowful weather that it was a marvel to behold. It began to rain, and to blow, and to thunder so fiercely as if"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497 (segment 3) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497)

  "and to blow, and to thunder so fiercely as if the whole world were about to end at once. The child, who saw the storm so marvelous and the waves of the sea so great and so terrifying that no"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497 (segment 4) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497)

  "of the sea so great and so terrifying that no one could be there who would not fear death, was afraid and fearful that the waves, so great did he see them, would come all the way to him, and"

• attestation: The Grail narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497 (segment 5) attests to sacred history (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 497)

  "see them, would come all the way to him, and for this reason he drew himself back from the shore and came toward a rock that he saw was split open; and he entered within it, so frightened that he"

• attestation: Military action involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 506 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 506)

  "and those other virtues of which you have many times heard, which make some men appear more gracious and better endowed than others, and you, without doubt, are as furnished with them as an unbelieving man can be, for you are fair to the enemy whom you have served all the days of your life, not to God: and you are quite valiant and a good knight and courteous;"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 506 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 506)

  "and besides that, you have so many virtues that you are the most gracious unbelieving man that I know."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 506 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 506)

  "Now I have shown you," said the child, "what the vessel signifies."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 506 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 506)

  "The earth heaped up inside the pot signifies the great sorrow of mortal sins that the wretched man heaps up each day within himself, more and more, by sinning against his creator, when he will not amend himself despite admonishment or any word that is said to him."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (mother) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 506 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 506)

  "This treasure and this accumulation you have gathered from the time you came forth from your mother's womb, for never since you were born have you done anything, neither in word nor in deed, that was not against the will of your creator, and since you have always sinned and heaped up within yourself evil upon evil, and sin upon sin, well should the vessel full of earth have appeared to you in your dream, for"

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "wretched king, poor and without counsel, now at last you can truly know that you are poor and destitute."

• attestation: A death event (death) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "wretched king, poor in all things, at this moment that is called death, neither friend nor kinsman nor anything you know can help you;"

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "for you find no one who can tell you where you will go when you depart from this world, nor whether you will be poor or rich, at ease or in suffering."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "king destitute of counsel, who now will leave behind these great games and these great pleasures that you have had in this world and will go where you know not, whether to joy or to sorrow."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "Now look at yourself and by reason, if you can, consider which you should more expect to find on your way, joy or grief, when you depart from this world — of the joy such as it was that you have had so much of, that no man of your age ever had more;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "but because it is said, and the wise attest it in truth, that the joy of this world turns to grief, and that it must be, by sheer necessity, that all that joy finds its end, and that the ending and the good joy be called grief and sorrow;"

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "and for this I can see, by my own example, that my joy turns to sorrow."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "wretched king, poor are you in yourself, for you will find sorrow when you depart from this world;"

• attribution: A figure is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "but you neither know nor can see, unless one wiser than you teaches you, whether that sorrow will have an end or whether it will be everlasting."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "king who have come to the end of your life and have found the beginning of your sorrow, think whether you might in any way find again Him who made all things and to whom all things are revealed, however hidden they may be, and who knows all that is to come;"

• attestation: An emotional response involving figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "He would tell you the truth of that sorrow you will find, whether it will end or whether it will last forever."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "" In such thoughts and such words, and making the greatest grief in the world, the king fell asleep, weeping so much that his whole face was wet with tears from his eyes."

• attestation: A supernatural event is attested involving figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "And when he had fallen asleep in such thoughts, it seemed to him that he entered upon a great and wide road, and that road was great and broad and wide and beaten by so many people that it was a marvel;"

• attestation: A death event (die) involving a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "but it was so sorrowful and so forsaken that none entered it who was not seized and taken and cast into prison, and thus all those who entered it lost both their bodies and their possessions."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "And when he had set upon the road, he saw beside him a man of very great beauty who told him that he would keep him company until he had passed through the road."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "And so they went on together, the man before and the king behind."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "And the king had very great fear as he went along the way, for he saw on all sides the road surrounded by robbers and thieves who did nothing but watch to see if they could seize him in their hands."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 510)

  "and then he came upon a little path, the most beautiful and most delightful in the world, full of little fruit-bearing trees and green on all sides, and when he had entered it, he heard a voice that said to him: "Come"

• attestation: A geographical feature or location is described 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)

  "table where the other people sat, and she had on her head a garland all full of flowers."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure 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)

  "She was so beautiful and so fair that it seemed to the king as he looked at her that she was now a hundred times more beautiful than she had been before."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure 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 she saw that he was looking at her, she said to him: "Vessel of earth, full of clods, go and cleanse yourself and wash."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures 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 the king saw that he would get nothing more, he departed from there and turned back to his road."

• attestation: A death event (death) involving a figure 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)

  "He had not gone far when people seized him so hideously that he had great fear of death."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure 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 he asked them why they laid hands on him;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by a figure 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)

  ""because," they said, "you are ours and we shall put you where we will."

• attestation: Fear or astonishment is experienced by figures 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)

  "That house was so hideous and so terrifying to behold that there is no one in the world so bold that, if he saw it, would not be filled with utter dread."

• attribution: The title king is attributed to a figure 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)

  "That house was so black and so hideous and so full of weeping and of tears and of cries that the king who saw it thus in his dream was filled with very great sorrow and had very great fear of it."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 537 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 537)

  "And when he saw that the darkness of night had spread across the world, he came back to the hull of the ship, but he saw neither the small boat nor the lion that he had left behind, and this troubled him greatly, for the mute beast would have given him great comfort if he could have seen it, but he could see nothing of what he sought."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 537 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 537)

  "And when he saw that he would see no more of it, he came back to the middle of the ship and lay down upon a beam, as one who dares not enter the bed, and fell asleep at once from weariness and toil."

• attestation: A journey or movement by figures is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 537 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 537)

  "The next day, when daylight appeared, he rose, and when he was awake and came to the hull of the ship and saw that he had arrived before an island, he looked into the middle of the island and saw a man sleeping who lay there."

• attestation: A maritime or sea voyage element is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 537 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 537)

  "And when he perceived that it was a man, he descended from the ship and went in that"