Login Register. Nerdfighteria Wiki. Channels Articles Groups. Popular articles Katherine Green. Crash Course: U. Alice Green. Orin Green. People and pets. Sister Groups. Browse groups. Search groups. View map. Calendar view. Data export. Recent changes. Which is the actual, literal Holy Grail! The cup of Christ! Legends about the Holy Grail are often connected to the British legends of King Arthur, and this episode is definitely about this. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy learning Grail lore.
You have chosen wisely! Crash Course is made with Adobe Creative Cloud. Hi there. Which is the actual, literal, non-metaphorical Holy Grail. King Arthur, Knights of the Round Table, and most importantly, questing. And so the Grail quest, for whoever takes it, is a ready-made hero's journey. It's a grail, not a scale. Close though. In this video, we'll talk about two different knights who quested after that pesky grail, and we'll examine two things. First, where these stories depart from Campbell's monomythic pattern.
And second, how they combine the values of Christianity with the tropes and characters of pre-Christian myths. Grab your armor, and your coconut halves, and let's quest for knowledge. Many versions of the story contradict each other or change focus. Historians even disagree over whether there was a real, living, breathing King Arthur.
That doesn't bother us though, because either way the body of Arthurian legends remains incredibly influential. Most of the stories that make up Arthurian hero myths come from the late Medieval period, the eleventh to thirteenth centuries.
They coalesced in what most of us would recognize as Arthur's tale with Merlin, and Lancelot, and Guinevere, and all the rest, in Thomas Malory's late 15th century stories collected as Le Morte D'Arthur. However we're going to focus on two other version of the grail story centered around two other knights, Percival and Galahad. To explore this paradigmatic legend of England, we're gonna start in France. De Troyes not only made his Arthurian tale about the quest for the elusive grail, he also made Percival, and not Arthur or any other knight, the hero.
