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  Encyclopedia of the Celts : Kadien - Kyot
She replied innocently, but Tristan misunderstood and Kahedrin had to jump from a window to avoid his wrath, landing on a chess game which Mark was playing below.
(Kay, or in Welsh, Cai) King Arthur's seneschal; accompanies Culhwch (Kilhwch) on his quest for Olwen; He refuses Peredur when the latter came to Arthur's Court, and rudely repulsed him for his rustic appearance.
King of Terre Foraine who was cured of leprosy by Alan, son of Bron.
www.celticgrounds.com /chapters/encyclopedia/k.html   (4538 words)

  
 Holy Grail - Crystalinks
The Welsh romance Peredur (generally included in the Mabinogion), based on Chretien's poem but including very striking differences from it.
Other authors had their own ideas; Robert de Boron portrayed it as the vessel of the Last Supper, and Peredur had no Grail per se, presenting the hero instead with a platter containing his kinsman's bloody, severed head.
In Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach, citing the authority of a certain (probably fictional) Kyot the Provençal, claimed the Grail was a stone that fell from Heaven, and had been the sanctuary of the Neutral Angels who took neither side during Lucifer's rebellion.
www.crystalinks.com /holygrail.html   (4459 words)

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