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Often appears with: sin, guilt, and repentance · myth and the gods of the nations · lion as companion · fiend defeated by the cross · dream vision
Usually: narrative (1) · temptation (1) · wonder (1)
“For in those days there were but few folks that believed in God perfectly. For in those days the son spared not the father no more than a stranger.” Jean Froissart, Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed · insight
At the wild sea-side mountain, Percivale battles a serpent and lion scenario, witnesses a lion’s loyalty and companionship, receives a dream of two ladies and a coming duel with the world’s strongest champion, and prays to endure temptation.
OF THE GREAT DANGER THAT SIR PERCIVALE WAS IN BY HIS HORSE, AND HOW HE SAW A SERPENT AND A LION FIGHT And when Sir Percivale came nigh the brim, and saw the water so boistous, he doubted to overpass it. And then he made a sign of the cross on his forehead. When the fiend felt him so charged he shook off Sir Percivale, and he went into the water crying and roaring, making great sorrow, and it seemed unto him that the…