Perceval

    "Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called the Pure."

'PEREDUR' unique in that a bleeding head on a platter takes the place of the Grail.

'Peredur comes to the castle of an uncle, who is lame and whose attendants fish in a lake nearby. next P. goes to the castle of a second uncle, after a feast his strength is tested. Two youths enter carrying a spear from which flow three streams of blood. They are followed by two maidens who bear 'a large platter between them, and the head of a man on a platter, and blood in plenty round the head.' ('a dyscyl vawr y ryghunt, a phen gwr ar y dyscyl, a gwaet yn yn amhyl ygkylch y pen.')....great lamentation ....P. falls asleep..many years later a loathly damsel berates him for his failure to ask about the bleeding lance - if he had done so the king would have been restored to health and his land to peace. Peredur vows to learn the story of the lance. Later he comes to a castle - gray-haired lame man - explains the head was P.'s cousin.- P. avenges his cousin by slaying the sorceresses of Gloucester.

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