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The Folk-Lore Society,
FOR COLLECTING AND PRINTING
RELICS OF POPULAR ANTIQUITIES, &c.
ESTABLISHED IN
THE YEAR MDCCCLXXVIII.
[Illustration: Alter et Idem.]
PUBLICATIONS
OF
THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.
1888.
XXIII.
List of Officers of the Society.
1887-1888.
PRESIDENT.
THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF STRAFFORD.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
ANDREW LANG, M.A.
W. R. S. RALSTON, M.A.
EDWARD B. TYLOR, LL.D., F.R.S.
DIRECTOR.
G. L. GOMME, F.S.A., 1, Beverley Villas, Barnes Common, S.W.
COUNCIL.
THE HON. J. ABERCROMBY.
A. MACHADO Y ALVAREZ.
THE EARL BEAUCHAMP, F.S.A.
EDWARD BRABROOK, F.S.A.
DR. G. B. BRINTON.
JAMES BRITTEN, F.L.S.
LOYS BRUEYRE.
MISS C. S. BURNE.
EDWARD CLODD.
PROFESSOR D. COMPARETTI.
G. LAURENCE GOMME, F.S.A.
A. GRANGER HUTT, F.S.A.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, BT., F.R.S.
REV. DR. RICHARD MORRIS.
ALFRED NUTT.
EDWARD PEACOCK, F.S.A.
Z. D. PEDROSO.
PROFESSOR A. H. SAYCE, M.A.
CAPTAIN R. C. TEMPLE.
HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.
AUDITORS.
G. L. APPERSON.
JOHN TOLHURST, F.S.A.
LOCAL SECRETARIES.
IRELAND: G. H. KINAHAN, R.I.A.
SOUTH SCOTLAND: WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK, ESQ.
NORTH SCOTLAND: Rev. WALTER GREGOR.
INDIA: CAPTAIN R. C. TEMPLE.
CHINA: J. STEWART LOCKHART.
HONORARY SECRETARIES.
A. GRANGER HUTT, F.S.A., 8, Oxford Road, Kilburn, N.W.
J. J. FOSTER, 36, Alma Square, St. John's Wood, N.W.
STUDIES ON THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY GRAIL.
_Works by the same Author._
=The Aryan Expulsion and Return Formula among the Celts.=--_Folk-Lore
Record_, Vol. IV. 10_s._ 6_d._
"Interessante étude de mythographie comparée."--_Revue Celtique._
=Mabinogion Studies, I. The Mabinogi of Branwen, daughter of
Llyr.=--_Folk-Lore Record_, Vol. V. 10_s._ 6_d._
"Eingehendes und sehr beachtenswerthes Studium."--Prof. ERNST
WINDISCH, in _Ersch und Gruber_.
"These careful and searching studies deserve to be honourably
mentioned."--Mons. HENRI GAIDOZ, in the _Academy_.
STUDIES ON THE
LEGEND OF THE HOLY GRAIL
_WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE HYPOTHESIS_
OF ITS CELTIC ORIGIN.
BY ALFRED NUTT.
"Welchem Volke das Märchen (von Parzival's Jugendgeschichte)
angehörte, welches die schriftliche oder mündliche
Ueberlieferung mit der Gralsage in Verbindung brachte, ist
schwer zu bestimmen, doch würde dasjenige Volk den meisten
Anspruch darauf haben, bei welchem sich dies Märchen ausserhalb
jenes Zusammenhangs nachweisen liesse."--K. SIMROCK.
"The Celtic hero who in the twelfth century became Perceval le
Chercheur du basin ... in the end became possessed of that
sacred basin le Saint Graal, and the holy lance which, though
Christian in the story, are the same as the talismans which
appear so often in Gaelic tales ... the glittering weapon which
destroys, and the sacred medicinal cup which cures."--J. F.
CAMPBELL.
"In all the Fenian stories mention is made of Fionn's healing
cup ... it is the same as the Holy Grail of course."--J. F.
CAMPBELL.
London:
DAVID NUTT, 270-71, STRAND.
1888.
HARRISON AND SONS,
PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY,
ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON.
DEDICATION.
To the Memory
OF
J. F. CAMPBELL,
FROM WHOM
I FIRST LEARNT TO LOVE CELTIC TRADITION.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Description of the leading forms of the Romance: Conte del
Graal--Joseph d'Arimathie--Didot-Perceval--Queste del Saint
Graal--Grand Saint Graal--Parzival--Perceval le Gallois--
Mabinogi of Peredur--Sir Perceval--Diu Crône--Information
respecting date and authorship of these works in the MSS. page 1