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The legend of the Holy Grail - referring to the chalice of the Eucharist and/or the cup that received Christ's blood at the Crucifixion - is also related to older, pre-Christian or non-Christian (pagan) traditions. Thus John Matthews in The Grail : Quest for the Eternal (1981) links up the Grail with Celtic lore, e.g. with the narrative of the Welsh goddess Ceridwen, whose servant Gwion Bach, while he was stirring her magical cauldron, "tasted three drops that fell on his hand", and subsequently (after a series of metamorphoses) became Taliesin , "Chief Bard of the Island of Britain" (p. 10). According to Matthews, "[i]t is possible to see behind the story of Taliesin echoes of a mystery religion in which a sacred vessel played an important part" (p. 10) - and incidentally, Talies(s)in resurfaces as a character (a postman (!)) in Leonora Carrington's surrealist fantasy The Hearing Trumpet . The Grail likewise makes its appearance in various versions of a mystical or "occult" feminism , where the Holy Grail embodies "a spiritual goal representing inner wholeness, union with the divine, and self-fulfillment" (Whitney Chadwick: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement , 1985, p. 215). However this may be, quests for the Holy Grail abound within (and in particular on the outskirts of) the Western Canon (there are obvious links to heterodox or heretical groups and traditions). I.e. we come across these texts right from the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the twenty-first century (cf. e.g. Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code ). We shall take up a wide range of texts and films - including various parodic approaches to the quest, such as H.P. Lovecraft's Eliotesque "Waste Paper" and the hilarious Monty Python and the Holy Grail (!).
Ib Johansen
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Engelsk
Primary sources:
Anon.:
The Quest of the Holy Grail
(Penguin Classics).
Thomas Malory:
The Noble Tale of the Sangreal
(excerpts).
The Tale of Taliesin
(pamphlet, re-narrated
by Jennifer Cochrane).
The History of
That Holy Disciple Joseph of Arimathea
(pamphlet)
Alfred Tennyson: "Sir Galahad" (poem) and "The Holy Grail" (poem, from:
Idylls of the King
).
Richard Wagner: "The Legend of the Grail" ("In distant land...", aria, from:
Lohengrin
).
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: "God's Graal" (poem).
Arthur Machen: "The Great Return" (story)
T.S. Eliot: "The
H.P. Lovecraft: "Waste Paper" (poem).
Nathanael West: "The Adventurer" (story).
Remedios Varo: "Exploration of the Sources of the
Leonora Carrington:
The Hearing Trumpet
(Penguin).
Dan Brown:
The Da Vinci Code
(Corgi).
Kate Mosse:
Labyrinth
(Orion Books).
Terry Gilliam:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(film).
Terry Gilliam:
The Fisher King
(film).
Steven Spielberg:
Ron Howard:
The Da Vinci Code
(film).
NB.
Quite a few of the texts
mentioned
above
are available
on the internet, cf. e.g. The Camelot Project at the
Mundtlig eller skriftlig eller hjemmeopgave eller formidling eller aktiv, tilfredsstillende deltagelse i undervisningen.
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