This manuscript from the Bavarian State Library was produced by a single scribe who, his dialect indicates, must have lived in Bavaria. The tale, as evidenced by the manuscript tradition, enjoyed great popularity throughout the Middle Ages. After a long odyssey and a religious catharsis, Parzival is able to return to Arthur's court and is marked as the new grail king.
He arrives at the Castle of the Grail, but fails to pose the question to the sick King Fisher Anfortas about the source of his suffering-a question that would release Anfortas and make Parzival the new grail king. It tells the story of the juvenile fool Parzival who, having grown up in the seclusion of the forest, is ignorant of the world and causes much grief as he ventures out to become a knight. Wolfram von Eschenbach composed his medieval German epic poem Parzival, which consists of more than 24,000 lines, in the first decade of the 13th century.
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