This title page showing the proposed location of Wolfram's Terre de Salvaesche - including the Grail Castle Munsalvaesche (7) - in the Hermitage, an ancient Celtic holy place in the Swiss village of Arlesheim near Basle, as well as the introductions to the official translation of Werner Greub’s first volume of a Grail trilogy and other related texts have been made available on this website by the Willehalm Institute for Anthroposophy as Grail Research, Royal Art and Social Organics based in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the complete book edition can be ordered at the address below. The original title of this work is Wolfram von Eschenbach und die Wirklichkeit des Grals (ISBN 3-7235-0147-3) and was published in 1974 by the Goetheanum, School for Spiritual Science in the Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag in Dornach, Switzerland. The map on the title page of this volume, as seen above, is taken from the chapter The Grail Landscape Terre de Salvaesche in Part II of this book. All illustrations stem from the original German volume. All photos, except the one in appendix VI, were taken by the author. For the other credits, see the German original.

Note on the quotes used in this book: Parzival with the original Middle High German text on the left side of the page and the translated High German text on the right can be read in the Reclam Edition, Stuttgart; Willehalm in the same form in the edition by Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, translated by D. Kartschoke. For the English translations, use has been made here of the English Penguin Classics versions of Parzival and Willehalm (translated by M.E. Gibbs and S. M. Johson), of the American Parzival translation by H. M. Mustard & C. E. Passage, Vintage Books, New York as well as the American Willehalm translation by C.E. Passage (F. Ungar Publishing, New York, sold out). The American editions have the advantage that the 30-line stanzas are numbered for easy reference. Where deemed necessary due to the findings of this book, we have made our own translation, especially in place names. Parzival is abbreviated with P. and Willehalm with Wh. T. refers to Titurel.

ISBN 90 – 73932 – 03 –3

 First internet edition, December 2004

  © English translation Robert J. Kelder

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