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Myth of the Month 19: The Holy Grail -- pt. 1

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Adventures of Percival

Percival is travelling through a sort of forest and wild lands to try to get to his birthplace. A fisherman in the river tells him t it's not going to be possible for him to ford the river with his horse. He advises percival instead to go up hill to the top of a nearby promontory, from which he will then see a house where he can take shelter. So percival does so he goes up to this vantage point, but at first he sees nothing at all, only wilderness and woods. But then he notices a tower hidden down in a deep valley, just peaking above the tree line. And he changes his mind and says, i

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