Chr tien de Troyes's late twelfth-century 'Conte du Graal' has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. The challenge represented by its unfinished state was quickly taken up, and over the next fifty years the romance was supplemented by a number of continuations and prologues, which eventually came to dwarf Chr tien's text. In one of the first studies to treat the 'Conte du Graal' and its continuations...