Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Joseph of Arimathea; The Welsh Boy; The Fisher King; Sir Gawain's Quest Begins; Perceval's Recovery; Lancelot's Quest; The Castle of Marvels; The Broken Sword; The Conquest of the Castles; Galahad; Sources; Arthurian Studies; Copyright.
The Grail legends have been appropriated by novelists as diverse as Umberto Eco and Dan Brown yet very few have read for themselves the original stories from which they came. All the mystery and drama of the Arthurian world are embodied in the extraordinary tales of Perceval, Gawain, Lancelot and Galahad in pursuit of the Holy Grail. The original romances, full of bewildering contradictions and composed by a number of different writers, dazzle with the sheer wealth of their conflicting imagination. In Nigel Bryant's hands, this enthralling material becomes truly accessible. He has constr.