Parzival and His Quest For The Holy Grail retold by G Marchant

Discover for yourself why this legend is full of mysteries and contradictions

Wolfram Parzival is rightly regarded as one of the great works of Western Literature. It presents a search for chivalric virtues and ideals.

It also deals with human failure and guilt and how these can be overcome by living righteously.

This is the story about a boy who grew up in a wild forest in Europe nine hundred years ago. It was a time of knighthood and adventures, of jousting and duels with swords and spears, of saving maidens in distress and of fighting evil rulers.

The name of this boy was Parzival. His father, a king and a knight, was killed in battle against an evil despot in a far away country before Parzival was born. The queen, his mother, did not want him to know anything about knighthood lest he might also lose his life fighting lawless evildoers or miscreants. She therefore brought him to this forest to lead a sheltered life. The world beyond was unbeknown to him.

But one day he met some knights in shining armour riding through the forest in pursuit of robbers who had taken a young girl hostage. Since that day he wanted to become a knight and fight evil and eventually achieve the quest for the Holy Grail.