This is the first book-length study of the origins of the Grail legend to have been undertaken by a specialist in medieval Irish literature. Drawing on a detailed reexamination of the relevant texts in Irish, Welsh, Latin and French, extensive sections of which are presented in new translations, the author argues that the roots of the Grail legend are to be sought in the lost Old Irish manuscript known as the Book of Druimm Snechtai .Table of ContentsForeword; In the Grail Castle; The Trance at the Feast; The Book of Druimm Snechtai; `I was with Bran in Ireland’; The Horn of Bran Galed; Kaer Sidi ; The Land of Enchantment; The Epistle of Pwyll and Pryderi; Taliesin and the Irish Scholars; The Rich Fisherman; The Path Through Water; The Spear That Bleeds; The Ruining of the Land; The Knight in the Glass Barrel; The King of the Deep Folk; The Head and the Fish; The Wanderings of Bleddri; The Service of the Grail; The Secret of the Grail; An Imagined Book; Afterword; Places Mentioned in the Ireland; Wales; France and Environs; Patrons of the Grail Legend; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Scholars

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