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New Light on Oriental Sources for Wolfram's Parzival and Other Grail Romances

1947; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 62; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/459265

1938-1530

Helen Adolf,

Medieval Iberian Studies

Did Wolfram have any other sources beside Chrétien? Opinions are still divided. According to Fourquet, he used only two different Chrétien Mss. Weber assumes three additional sources, one for the "Enfances Perceval," another for books i and ii, and a third one, which he considered an alchemistic writing, for the Grail. Schneider, summing up the investigations of scholars in his history of MHG literature, holds that Wolfram must have known, beside Chrétien, a Grail story in Oriental setting. My own research has gone in a similar direction and like Schneider, I am indebted to the pioneers in this field, to Veselovskij and Singer, founders of the Ethiopian theory.