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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
And again , though Malmesbury makes no mention of the sacred emerald , he describes , in his special history of Glastonbury , a gem of inestimable value , as still in his time ( adhuc ) preserved in the monastery . His words , somewhat condensed ,
are : — " De Altari Saucti David quod dicitur vulgo Saphir-us . " Tunc Patriarcha ( Patricius ) venerabilem patrem Dewy quatuor miraeribus ditavit : altari scilicet consecrato in quo Dominicum corpus sacrabat quod et innumeris virtutibus ^ o ^ ei , insigni tamen nola , baculo , ettunica auro texta . Accipit tamen -mnnera per angetum . Inde ea vulgus vocat e calo venientia . Sanctus autem David cum tarn pretiosi thesauri postea custodire
gestiret , kahere dignissimum eundem Lapidem Ecclesite Glastonite adlrae vivus delegavit . Ostenditur autem adhuc memoratum altare in Glastoniense ecclesia in memoriam dicti sancti non humana reservatum industria sed divina providentia , —omnibus aliis ( reliquiis ) pene sublatis ejusdem subreptione avidas hostium manus jugiter contraxit , — cum vero saipe dieius Lapis olim metu guerrai multo tempore lattdsset absconditus , omnibus loci nesciisiso recordationis Henricus Wintoniensis iscopus
, p , ep et abbas Glastonia ; , eundem in quodam hostio Ecclesiai Marias reperit ; auro et argento et lapidibus pretiosis sicut adhuc apparet mirifice decoravit . " Let us now examine if a pious exegesis , a willing interpretation , the latitude of faith , and perhaps the ignorance of
grammar , may not from this description have extracted the first germ of all the legends of the Church , or the imaginative lays of the troubadours Avehave alluded to , respecting the San Graal , or the Sacro Catino . We Avill premise , however , as an introduction to this part of the subject , the opinions of two distinguished Avriters , which may add their weight to our own remarks .
Bishop Warburton , in a post-fixed note to " Love ' s Labour Lost , " in his edition of Shakespear's plays , says : — " In these old romances there was much religious superstition mixed with their other extravagances , as appears even from their very names and titles . The first romance of ' Lancelot of the Lake and King _ Arthur and his Knights , ' is called the ' History of Saint Ch-eaal . ' This Saint Greaal the famous relick of the holbloodpretended to be collected
was y , into a vessel by Joseph of Arimathea . So another is called ' Kyrie of Eleison Montaulan . ' Eor , in those days Deuteronomy and Paralipoinenon Avere supposed to be names of holy men . And as they made saints knights-errant , so they made knights-errant of then- tutelary saints , and each advanced its own into the order of chivalry . Thus , everything in those days became either a saint or a devil . "
Our next extract is from Gervinus' " History of Teutonic Poetry , " the Avell- known professor at Heidelberg ( vol . i . p . 407 ) : — " It would be lost labour to endeavour to arrive at the bottom of the Graal-Sage ; for , in my belief , it had no other foundation than the fancy of probably a Provencal or Spanish monk , to which , perhaps , a costly relic gave the first impulse . Wilcken may possibl y have expected to have found some elucidation of this myth , from his inquiries into the history of the Crusades , since he gave an indirect promise to revert to it , which
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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
And again , though Malmesbury makes no mention of the sacred emerald , he describes , in his special history of Glastonbury , a gem of inestimable value , as still in his time ( adhuc ) preserved in the monastery . His words , somewhat condensed ,
are : — " De Altari Saucti David quod dicitur vulgo Saphir-us . " Tunc Patriarcha ( Patricius ) venerabilem patrem Dewy quatuor miraeribus ditavit : altari scilicet consecrato in quo Dominicum corpus sacrabat quod et innumeris virtutibus ^ o ^ ei , insigni tamen nola , baculo , ettunica auro texta . Accipit tamen -mnnera per angetum . Inde ea vulgus vocat e calo venientia . Sanctus autem David cum tarn pretiosi thesauri postea custodire
gestiret , kahere dignissimum eundem Lapidem Ecclesite Glastonite adlrae vivus delegavit . Ostenditur autem adhuc memoratum altare in Glastoniense ecclesia in memoriam dicti sancti non humana reservatum industria sed divina providentia , —omnibus aliis ( reliquiis ) pene sublatis ejusdem subreptione avidas hostium manus jugiter contraxit , — cum vero saipe dieius Lapis olim metu guerrai multo tempore lattdsset absconditus , omnibus loci nesciisiso recordationis Henricus Wintoniensis iscopus
, p , ep et abbas Glastonia ; , eundem in quodam hostio Ecclesiai Marias reperit ; auro et argento et lapidibus pretiosis sicut adhuc apparet mirifice decoravit . " Let us now examine if a pious exegesis , a willing interpretation , the latitude of faith , and perhaps the ignorance of
grammar , may not from this description have extracted the first germ of all the legends of the Church , or the imaginative lays of the troubadours Avehave alluded to , respecting the San Graal , or the Sacro Catino . We Avill premise , however , as an introduction to this part of the subject , the opinions of two distinguished Avriters , which may add their weight to our own remarks .
Bishop Warburton , in a post-fixed note to " Love ' s Labour Lost , " in his edition of Shakespear's plays , says : — " In these old romances there was much religious superstition mixed with their other extravagances , as appears even from their very names and titles . The first romance of ' Lancelot of the Lake and King _ Arthur and his Knights , ' is called the ' History of Saint Ch-eaal . ' This Saint Greaal the famous relick of the holbloodpretended to be collected
was y , into a vessel by Joseph of Arimathea . So another is called ' Kyrie of Eleison Montaulan . ' Eor , in those days Deuteronomy and Paralipoinenon Avere supposed to be names of holy men . And as they made saints knights-errant , so they made knights-errant of then- tutelary saints , and each advanced its own into the order of chivalry . Thus , everything in those days became either a saint or a devil . "
Our next extract is from Gervinus' " History of Teutonic Poetry , " the Avell- known professor at Heidelberg ( vol . i . p . 407 ) : — " It would be lost labour to endeavour to arrive at the bottom of the Graal-Sage ; for , in my belief , it had no other foundation than the fancy of probably a Provencal or Spanish monk , to which , perhaps , a costly relic gave the first impulse . Wilcken may possibl y have expected to have found some elucidation of this myth , from his inquiries into the history of the Crusades , since he gave an indirect promise to revert to it , which