Proceedings of the "Hon. Soc. of Cymmrodorion", 1908-9. Ed.)



THE HIGH HISTORY OF THE HOLY GRAAL


BRANCH I.


INCIPIT.

Hear ye the history of the most holy vessel that is called Graal,
wherein the precious blood of the Saviour was received on the day
that He was put on rood and crucified in order that He might
redeem His people from the pains of hell. Josephus set it in
remembrance by annunciation of the voice of an angel, for that
the truth might be known by his writing of good knights, and good
worshipful men how they were willing to suffer pain and to
travail for the setting forward of the Law of Jesus Christ, that
He willed to make new by His death and by His crucifixion.


TITLE I.

The High Book of the Graal beginneth in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. These three Persons are
one substance, which is God, and of God moveth the High Story of
the Graal. And all they that hear it ought to understand it, and
to forget all the wickednesses that they have in their hearts.