…a mess of it, he said: I am going back and I am going to get it the rules are it will happen only once. Parsifal says I'll get it anyhow. And having ridden away he encounters coming toward him a glorious oriental knight. Now I must tell you that…

…and white which no one has seen such a complexion before. So when he arrives he becomes the idol of all the women. Parsifal says, probably because of his complexion. And well one way or another because of the integrity of volfram of parsifal's love for…

…that was invented by the monks representing this idea here, and that is the grail tradition of which galahad is the hero. Parsifal of wolfram is about 1210 1215. The galahad story is about 1230. That's the story that was taken over by Mallory Two…

…for both. You might say that night it's the very, very end of winter. No it's the very end of winter there's a white snow. Parsifal rides his horse in the morning and the hawk follows him and a whole flock of geese fly up and the hawk goes at them…

…to release four hundred maidens and four Queens from enchantment in the castle of marvels? Well that's going to be gawain's adventure. Parsifal has been disgraced before the world he had worked to achieve he was the knight of the world and yet because of…

…he thinks it's grandma flance. We know who it is: it's parsifal who has plucked at the branch to dare grandma flance. Parsifal sees a knight wearing the wreath: it's gawain, and he thinks it's grandma flance. Gawain sees a knight wearing the wreath and…

…in combat. And they're at it with gawain gradually losing. When gawain's squires chance by and they see him they shout his name. Parsifal tosses his sword away and says: I am betrayed, I am fighting my own blood my own brother it's not blood it's a…

…was taking place, ferfiz was calling the name of his queen and of other ladies who had given him elements of his costume. Parsifal is losing force until he calls the name conduiramois, his wife and she comes to him in force across the miles and it…

…and parsifal are the great works of the middle ages. They're the top ones Gottfried of Strasbourg's Tristan, Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parsifal, and it's of those two that I want to speak this afternoon, the Tristan of Gottfried and the parsifal of wolfram…

…now Joseph Campbell. Well I'm going to be talking now about the grail legend, particularly as it appears in wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parsifal. This seems to me to be the great mythos of the modern European world. The problem is very eloquently stated which…

…when there are tears, and so it's a rather cute little thing and so they're reconciled and of course you know what happens. Parsifal says you go to Arthur's court and tell them I've beaten you. So this very famous knight arrives. But you can imagine…

…He turns it around wrong side around and just slugs parsifal off his horse and the boy and horse are on the ground. Parsifal takes the javelin, sends it right through the visor of the knight into his eye, and the knight is dead. Now that's not…

…man who failed in the grail adventure and is going to go back. He says: no you can't go back only one deed, one try. Parsifal says: I don't care what you say I am going back and I'm going to do this. Well that's the big adventure that has occurred…

…they are. So parsifal is invited to the wedding. Now says the text. There was great joy in the pavilions, love and philandering. Parsifal, looking at all this gorgeous women and all, contemplates this in his mind. He said, with my love in my mind and my…

…even insult his lance by using it properly but he turns it around the other way and just slugs him off the horse horse. Parsifal and his horse are on the ground. Parsifal reaches, takes a javelin and sends it through the knight's visor into his eye and…

…but he turns it around the other way and just slugs him off the horse horse. Parsifal and his horse are on the ground. Parsifal reaches, takes a javelin and sends it through the knight's visor into his eye and kills the knight. It's not the proper way…

…red knight around to get the armor off doesn't know how to do it so the page helps him get it off, puts it on him. Parsifal gets on the knight's big horse. He knows how to start the horse but not how to stop it and boom he's off. This is parsifal…

…of the grail problem. So here's this knight, this is the knight this King is the one with the Peacock Feathers in the boat. Parsifal on the shore says: uh look it's getting late is there some place around here where a person could spend the night? The…

…the people big stuff, early 13th century. Then parsifal asks the question: what ails you, uncle? The King is healed. Parsifal himself becomes the grail King, representing the guardian of the highest spiritual value. The spiritual values are compassion and…

…answer to this, which is, in my thinking, one of the great, great stories of the middle ages. I think Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parsifal is the high story of the middle ages. I would put it above Dante's Divine comedy. Dante ends up in heaven, Gottfried…

…fool sir Percival. The legend that Joe will be exploring is one of the masterpieces of Medieval Literature: wilfram Von Eschenbach's Parsifal Creighton's Grail story. What's the source of the grail story? Where does it come from? Creighton says he got the…

…what it was about in a way that Gottfried never did, in a way that the monks couldn't. And here you have the hero Percival Parsifal, as the ideal of the 12th century knight. His version of the grail is of a stone vessel, a stone that was brought down…

…even insult his lance by using it properly but he turns it around the other way and just slugs him off the horse. Parsifal and his horse are on the ground. Parsifal reaches, takes the javelin and sends it through the knight's visor into his eye and…

…but he turns it around the other way and just slugs him off the horse. Parsifal and his horse are on the ground. Parsifal reaches, takes the javelin and sends it through the knight's visor into his eye and kills the knight. That's not the proper way…

…red knight around to get the armor off. Doesn't know how to do it so the page helps him get it off, puts it on him. Parsifal gets on the knight's big horse. He knows how to start the horse but not how to stop it and boom he's off. This is parsifal…