"THE PARZIVAL REVOLUTION - WOLFRAM AS A HISTORIAN"

This video records my PowerPoint presentation, which was held on July 13 at the 27th Congress of the International Arthurian Society in Aix-en-Provence in the South of France and which was made by Thomas Meier. Afterward, he, my other travel companion Jean-Pierre Ricard, and I visited various Grail Sites in the area, such as Les Saintes Maries de la Mere, Saint-Maximin, and Saint Baume, which are all mentioned in Ch. 8.1 "The Raising of the Youth of Nain" from "Vol. III "Awakening to Goethe" of Werner Greub's as yet untranslated Grail Sites trilogy. The visits culminated in climbing the mountain Chateau du Verdu in Saint- Guilhem-le-Desert, the location of the hunting lodge of Willehalm from the epos of the same name by Wolfram von Eschenbach (see also the short video on this Channel made from atop the mountain by Thomas Meier).
This Saint-Guilhem, the medieval William of Orange, paladin of Charlemagne, and founder of the original House of Orange, who was canonized in 1066 as the patron saint of the knights, is shown by Werner Greub in Part I of Vol. I of his research report "How the Grail Sites Were Found - Wolfram von Eschenbach as a Historian" to be none other than the "Well-known Master Kyot the Provençal", the source for Wolfram’s Parzival as well as for his Willehalm, an epos about the brave exploits of William of Orange as supreme commander of the Carolingian forces in the two battles against the invading Moors from Spain on the battlefield Les Alyscamps in Arles. The revolutionary view that this Willam of Gellone, as he is also known, wrote in his hunting lodge high above the abbey he founded and the village now bearing his name his memoirs about his leading active role as Kyot of Catalonia and spiritus rector as Kyot the Provencal in Parzival’s grail kingship at Pentecost 848 in the Grail Castle Munsalvaesche located half-way up the Hornikopf hill in the east of the Arlesheim Hermitage, and that furthermore these memoirs - transmitted through 11 generations of oral tradition - became the common source for Chrestien de Troyes, who published his Perceval in Flanders in 1180 and for Wolfram von Eschenbach, who published his Parzival some 20 years later in Thuringia, this is the Grail Mystery of Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert that I attempted to reveal in my all too short presentation at this Congress in Aix-en-Provence.
On the way back to Arlesheim we visited the town of Nantua. According to Greub's view of the Arthur tradition, as having been originated even before the Mystery of Golgotha by an original Arthur, in England, who was then followed by a succession of Celtic spiritual-military leaders under that name, this pleasant holiday resort in the Jura mountains south of Geneva was the seat of the Court of King Arthur in his Karidoel Castle in the land of Wolfram's Bertane (Burgundy) in the ninth century, i.e. not Nantes in Bretagne, which it was in the 5th century (see the Chapter “Bertane - the Land of King Arthur”, (willehalminsti...)
A more detailed report on introducing these revolutionary discoveries by the late Werner Greub in France and the various contacts we made there will follow on my Willehalm Institute for Grail Research blog (WillehalmInstit...).
Those who have become curious and want to know more are referred to Greub's Grail Sites book, which is available from the bookstore at the Goetheanum, where it was originally published in 1974 in German under the title "Wolfram von Eschenbach und die Wirklichkeit des Grals" ("Wolfram von Eschenbach and the Reality of the Grail"). The other two volumes of this trilogy, "From Parzival to Rudolf Steiner's Science of the Grail" and "Awakening to Goethe" (both as yet untranslated) are also available there).