Gender Masculine
Usage Arthurian Cycle, English
Meaning & History
Created by the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes for his poem Perceval, the Story of the Grail. Chrétien may have derived the name from Old French perce val "pierce the valley", or he may have based it loosely on the Welsh name Peredur [1]. In the poem Perceval is a boy from Wales who hopes to become a knight under King Arthur. Setting out to prove himself, he eventually comes to the castle of the Fisher King and is given a glimpse of the Grail.
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Arthurian legend, Critical Role characters, currently out of the US top 1000, Granblue Fantasy characters, Harry Potter characters, isograms, Jamaican sprinters, knights of the Round Table, landforms, literature, Reign of the Seven Spellblades characters, Suikoden characters, surnames, Thomas and Friends characters, uncertain etymology, Virginia Woolf characters, William Faulkner characters
Sources & References
- Bromwich, Rachel. Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain. 4th ed., University of Wales, 2014, page 478.
