[UA] Fisher King

[Chad Underkoffler]

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 Fisher King
The Fisher King is generally seen as the keeper of the Grail. He
is  sometimes called the Rich  Fisher/ Angler. He might be an
avatar of the Welsh hero/god Bran the Blessed. The Fisher king
is the wounded occupant of the Grail Castle in Chretien de
Troyes's Perceval as well as in other works. The nature of the
Fisher King's wound varies, but is generally seen as some form
of castration or other loss of fertility. In the various
versions of the Perceval Saga, Perceval sees a procession while
at the Grail Castle, but fails to ask questions despite his
curiosity. Perceval later discovers that if he had asked his
questions, he would have discovered that the Fisher King was his
uncle and Perceval would not have been forced to go on the Grail
Quest. In Wolfram von Eschenbach's Perceval, The Fisher King is
given the name Anfortas.
Robert de Boron, in his Arthurian cycle, identifies the Fisher
King with either Bron or Hebron and makes him Joseph of
Arimathea's brother -in-law. (Note the similarity to Bran). In
The Didot-Perceval, Perceval finishes his quest and returns to
the Grail castle where he asks the proper question and in so
doing Perceval restores the health (read "fertility") of the
Fisher King (read "country"). 
 
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Chad Underkoffler [chadu at yahoo.com]
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