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The above englyn was printed in the Greal, 1792, p. 316; the language shows it to be a production of about the middle of the seventeenth century.
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I told him that some had appeared in the old Welsh magazine called “The Greal.”
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Then there entered into the hall the Holy Greal covered with white samite, but there was none might see it, nor who bare it.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Holy Greal had been borne through the hall, then the Holy Vessel departed suddenly, that they wist not where it became: then had they all breath to speak.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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These knights, pure, unstained, searching until death for the Holy Greal, could he understand the life-long agony, the triumph of their conflict over Self?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various
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It was a great shock to Walter to learn that William Tell and Gelert were myths also; and the story of Bishop Hatto was to keep him awake all that night; but best of all he loved the stories of the Pied Piper and the San Greal.
Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919
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Then there entered into the hall the Holy Greal covered with white samite, but there was none might see it, nor who bare it.
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And when the Holy Greal had been borne through the hall, then the Holy Vessel departed suddenly, that they wist not where it became: then had they all breath to speak.
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This fog comes in from the Morbihan sea where Arthur and his knights went sailing to find the Holy Greal.
Frances Waldeaux 1897
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Borrow, in his _Wild Wales_, refers to a collection of fables in a journal called _The Greal_, while the
Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885
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