Chapter 13

The Perilous Chapel

The adventure of the Perilous Chapel in Grail romances. _Gawain_ form. _Perceval_ versions. _Queste. Perlesvaus. Lancelot. Chevalier à Deux Espées_. Perilous Cemetery. Earliest reference in _Chastel Orguellous. Âtre Perilleus. Prose Lancelot_. Adventure part of ‘Secret of the Grail.’ The Chapel of Saint Austin. _Histoire de Fulk Fitz-Warin_. Genuine record of an initiation. Probable locality North Britain. Site of remains of Mithra-Attis cults. Traces of Mystery tradition in Medieval romance. _Owain Miles_. Bousset, _Himmelfahrt der Seele_. Parallels with romance. Appeal to Celtic scholars. Otherworld journeys a possible survival of Mystery tradition. The Templars, were they Naassenes?