A young teenager with no past and no name is practicing the javelin in a clearing after an exhilarating run through the forest where he grew up. His world is shaken when five mysterious knights ride through the forest sanctuary. Struck by their splendor, he discovers himself: Perce.
From the first page of "Perceval or the Story of the Grail", the fifth novel by Chrétien de Troyes composed around 1190.
A young teenager with no past and no name is practicing the javelin in a clearing after an exhilarating run through the forest where he grew up. His world is shaken when five mysterious knights ride through the forest sanctuary. Struck by their splendor, he discovers himself: Perce.
From the first page of "Perceval or the Story of the Grail", the fifth novel by Chrétien de Troyes composed around 1190.