Parzival

Parzival is one of the two great epic poems in Middle High German. Composed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the first quarter of the thirteenth century, it relates the adventures of Parzival, or Percival, one of the Knights of the Round Table.

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Parzival is divided into sixteen books, each composed of several thirty-line stanzas of rhyming couplets. The stanza lengths fit perfectly onto a manuscript page. For the subject matter, Wolfram von Eschenbach relied on the never-completed Grail romance, Perceval, the Story of the Grail by Chr?tien de Troyes. Though he claimed a certain Kyot the Proven?al supplied an additional source, this is not taken seriously by scholars.

Middle High German: Middle High German is an ancestor of the modern German language, and was spoken from 1050 to about 1500....

Wolfram von Eschenbach: Wolfram von Eschenbach (died around 1220) was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time. As a Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry....

Thirteenth century: REDIRECT 13th century...