The Quest of the Holy Grail

The Quest of the Holy Grail was written by English Arthurian scholar, medievalist, translator, and folklorist Jessie Laidlay Weston, and originally published in 1913. Within this work the renowned author of From Ritual to Romance describes and analyses the literature composing the Grail cycle and surveys the main theories about the origins and meaning of the legend. Concluding that the Grail story is a confused and fragmentary record of a special form of nature worship, which, elevated to the dignity of a mystery, survived as a tradition.