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Excerpt from Y Cymmrodor, Vol. 17: The Magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Now we come to the version which is known as the Queste. According to Nutt, p. This is of later date than the first part of the Conte, but not so late as Manessier's continuation, or Gerbert's; it must then be from a different source, for it is a much more developed Grail story. Chrestien may not have been the first to translate the Welsh or Breton romance of Peredur; the rival stories under the titles of Perceval, Perceval le Gallois, Parsifal, point to other forms not existing to-day, from which Wolfram and the writers whose names we do not know may have worked, but all these titles are pre sumably older than that of Quest. When Peredur was sent back to the Castle of Wonders, he was not told where it might be then the quest began, it was an accident of the amended or Christianised version of Peredur, and not until the appendix to the story became the story itself, would Quest become the proper title. The Queste is therefore, as we might have expected, a more advanced phase of the story. In the Conte, Perceval and Gawain and others set off to find the Grail, but it is for the sake of liberating a sorely-oppressed king, and restoring peace to his country in the Queste the recovery of the wonder-working relic is the object of the journey. The maimed king remains certainly, but his cure is a secondary affair, a sort of bye product of the achievement, and the hero gets no reproaches on his account. The blame is now for Lancelot the sinful, for that (having seen the Grail working wonders) be yet moved not, nor said never a word. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
