BOOK IX

TRADITIONAL EVENTS

Hero meets with pilgrims who reproach Chrêtien: Peredur: Perceval him for bearing arms on Good Friday, and direct him to a hermit, who points out his sins and gives him absolution.

Introduction to line 25. This spirited opening, with its invocation of the embodied 'Frau Aventiure,' is peculiar to Wolfram. The entire episode is much more briefly treated by Chrêtien, who brings his hero at once in contact with the pilgrims, and has neither the meeting with Siguné nor the combat with the Grail knight.

Page 251, line 5--'_Frau Aventiure_.' This is a personification of the 'story' and of the spirit of romantic story-telling. Grimm (_Kl. Sr._