Re: The Holy Grail & Volcae+Wallachia-Vlach

Mark wrote

>The Penguin edition of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival insists on

locating

>Parsifal's home turf in Wales -- in Great Britain. Nope. It's in

Switzerland.

>And, if you take the train from Geneva to Zurich, there is a wonderful

ruined

>castle on the way through Valais that could just as well be that of >Montsalvat. The confusion of Wales and Wallis may be one of the

factors that

>lead to the grail legend becoming attached to the Arthurian cycle.

Sorry Mark, the story of Parzival Great Britain after all. It is derived via Breton intermediaries from the Welsh story of Peredur, an actual person who lived about 590 AD. He was the last British king of York, from British Eborac, Latin Eboracum, Welsh Evorac, Viking Yorik, to modern York. In Welsh legend he was Peredur the foolish. John