The knight ventures to the Middle East, where he saves the Moorish Queen Belakane, marries her, and becomes king. The beginning of the tale focuses on Parzival’s father, Gamuret. Eschenbach’s writing style is lively, witty, and full of humorous asides that confound scholars. He fails in his first attempt but later succeeds. The story follows a young man named Parzival as he becomes a knight of the Round Table and pursues the Holy Grail.
The romance’s original language is Middle High German (contemporaneous to Middle English) the first English translation of the text was 1894. Scholars estimate that the work was written sometime between 1200-1215. Parzival is a medieval romance by Wolfram von Eschenbach, one of Germany’s greatest medieval poets.
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