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The name of the author is nowhere recorded. He may possibly be Whoever he may have been; I hope that I am not misled by a translator's (1) 6 vols. 8vo. Mons, 1866-1871. ENDNOTES: and tantalising pseudonym affords no hint of his real identity. (13) Coombe Lea, Bickley, Kent --Sebastian Evans, appears. This, of course, is pure guesswork, but the fact remains that natural partiality for the author he translates in assigning him a referred to in the "Elucidation" prefixed to the rhymed version of (2) Marchal "Cat.", 2 vols. Brussels, 1842. Vol i.p. 223. the occurrence might be supposed to have taken place; and if he were the "Chronicle" was written in or about 1220, and the "Book of the the Table Round. They will find here printed in English for the first "Percival le Gallois" under the name of "Master Blihis", but this vague ago" would be likely to suggest itself as an appropriate time at which (3) Lausanne, 1759. of the Graal" to all who love to read of King Arthur and his knights of relegated to the year 720, the year under which the entry actually With these testimonies to its age and genuineness, I commend the "Book Perceval and the Holy Graal, whole and incorrupt as it left the hands year, to assign a date to the occurrence. A vague "five hundred years writing in 1220, the revelation to the hermit would thus naturally be Graal" not long before it. time what I take to be in all good faith the original story of Sir foremost rank among the masters of medieval prose romance. of its first author.

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