Enjoy this appreciation video for Erec Rhomer’s 1978 “Perceval Le Gallois”. Unable to post on YouTube thanks to French law not allowing for fair use, and the copyright holders who stopped relying to my emails after a while. I’m sure Erec would’ve loved this. Shout out to Howard for helping me make this video in all it’s 4:3 glory, although Substack converts the ratio and adds black bars.
If you want similar content, I have some written articles about the original story this movie is based on and some related holy grail stuff:
Chretien de Troyes and Perceval's Completed Quest
In this article I wish to discuss the late 12th century (c. 1170-90) French poem – Perceval – by Chretien de Troyes. All my quotes will be from Nigel Byrant’s prose translation published by Cambridge (2015) that has all the continuations included.
Icons and Origins of the Holy Grail
On the southern half of the Pyrenees in Spain and Andorra there is a series of Romanesque churches clustered tightly with a rather interesting interconnecting iconographical thread unique to the region.
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