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	Fisher King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The character of the Fisher King (though he is not called by that name) appears, and presents Peredur with a severed head on a platter.
		Here, the "Rich Fisher" is called "Bron", a name similar enough to Bran to suggest a relationship, and he is said to be the brother-in-law of Joseph of Arimathea, who had used the Grail to catch Christ's blood before laying him in the tomb.
		In the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, the Fisher King's wound was given to him by Sir Balin in the "Dolorous Stroke".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fisher_King (1339 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Fisher King (movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Fisher King is a movie from 1991 written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam.
		The title refers to the legend, which Parry recounts to Lucas, of the Fisher King, who guarded the Holy Grail and was healed by Percival.
		Fisher King is the first film Gilliam did without having written the screenplay, and it's a quite different Gilliam-movie.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Fisher-King-%28movie%29 (782 words)

	Fisher King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bron is made Fisher King when he assumes lordship over the Grail Castle in Britain.
		His son Alain is also called a Fisher King as is Pelles in another version.
		Sometimes the Fisher King and Grail King are one and the same, other times they are separate characters.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/f/fisher_king.html (125 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Fisher King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Fisher King legend is an Arthurian legend about the keeper of the Holy Grail.
		The Fisher King is a 1991 movie; the title refers to, and the plot contains echoes of, the Arthurian legend.
		In the Quest of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, the first knight to come upon the Holy Grail is Perceval, in a mysterious castle surrounded by wasteland and held by a custodian called the Fisher King.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Fisher-King (334 words)

	Dreams: The Fisher King
		The Fisher King is a romantic fantasy set in New York City at the end of the twentieth century.
		The Fisher King is a dramatic comedy that concerns one man's attempt to redeem himself from a life of fatal cynicism through his unlikely alliance with a visionary street person.
		The Fisher King is the guardian of the Holy Grail, which, in medieval legends, is the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper and which was used to collect drops of his blood at the Crucifixion.
	www.smart.co.uk /dreams/fkprod1.htm (2388 words)

	Fisher King by Rikki LaCoste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When the King was prosperous and healthy, all his subjects were rich and content, and the soil bore the most succulent of fruit and sustenance.
		On his deathbed, the King reluctantly resolved to do the unthinkable, and charged one hundred of his greatest champions to go into unspeakable dangers and find the Holy Graal and bring it to him before his death, so that he may drink the elixir of life from it and save the land from utter destruction.
		The good Fisher King lost all hope when he was visited by Sir Parsifal the Pure, who told him of the demise of the last knight other than himself.
	www.haze.ca /rikki/fisher.htm (698 words)

	The Fisher King
		Christ Himself is known as the fisher, and the fishnet is the symbol of the Christian sermon.
		The pattern ought to be this: a king is crippled or ill; as a result his land is barren; the hero heal s the king and fertility is restored to the land; probably, the hero's feat shows that he is the rightful heir.
		It clearly sustains the inhabitants of the Grail castle and is further accredited with the longevity of the Fisher King.
	www.uidaho.edu /student_orgs/arthurian_legend/grail/fisher (6287 words)

	SFBG News: August 12, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fisher grew up in a house in the avenues, friends say, in a family that was comfortably middle class.
		Fisher himself will break ground in September for construction of the Embarcadero high-rise that will house the Gap's new world headquarters, and his new Banana Republic flagship on Grant, he says, is already the highest-grossing store in the chain.
		Fisher was among the founders of benevolent-sounding downtown lobbying group the Committee on Jobs.
	www.sfbg.com /News/32/45/Features/fisher.html (4147 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: FISHER, JOHN KING
		King Fisher, rancher, outlaw, and lawman, was born in Collin County in 1854, the son of Joby and Lucinda (Warren) Fisher.
		Fisher made his way to Goliad, where he was arrested again, this time for housebreaking, and sent to prison.
		Fisher, relying on both patronage and intimidation, quickly established himself as one of the leaders of the Strip, and his ranch became a haven for drifters, criminals, and rustlers in the region.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/FF/ffi20.html (521 words)

	The Waste Land: Eliot, Wagner and the Magical Rites of Adonis.
		The king's life or spirit is so sympathetically bound up with the prosperity of the whole country, that if he fell ill or grew senile the cattle would sicken or cease to multiply, the crops would rot in the fields, and men would perish of widespread disease.
		In Wagner's poem, the old king Titurel lies in a tomb and is kept alive by the sight of the Grail alone.
		To achieve the quest and revive the land, either the king had to be healed, or restored to youth and vigour, or a young and vigorous successor had to undertake the burden of kingship.
	home.c2i.net /monsalvat/logres.htm (3747 words)

	Grail Legends (Galahad's Tradition)
		The shield had belonged to King Evalach of Sarras, which was used in the time of his war against the Egyptian king Tholomer.
		Lancelot was descendant of Nascien, brother-in-law of King Mordrain.
		The people of Sarras was without a king, so they appointed Galahad as their king, because they saw the miracle he performed by healing a cripple.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/quest2.html (5965 words)

	Bran and the Fisher King
		Bran, deific king of the Island of Britain, is often identified with King Arthur, and many of the tales of Bran became associated with Arthur as he was transformed from Emperor and Dux Bellorum to King of Britain.
		The King is lamed and sickly and the kingdom suffers.
		The story of the Fisher King is a later version of the story of the Lamed King, drawing on aspects of the story of the Rich Fisher and King Bran.
	home.comcast.net /~brons/Bran.html (844 words)

	Mystical-WWW - Arthurain A 2 Z F
		King Gorboduc was fair in dividing his estates between his sons but Ferrex was killed by his brother when he returned with an army to Britain having been chased out.
		The Fisher King is made lame as the result of the 'Dolorous Blow' with the 'Spear of the Hallows' (See Hallows) said to have pierced both his thighs.
		The Fisher King has also been thought to be the equivalent character in Arthurian legend to 'Alain le Gros' (See Alain le Gros) who was the reputed father of 'Perceval' (See Perceval).
	www.mystical-www.co.uk /arthuriana2z/f.htm (1558 words)

	Fisher King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Fisher King, also called the Wounded King, is inextricably connected to the land, and his wound is to e land itself.
		We are all Fisher Kings, in the sense that we hold nature as sacred, and we struggle to revive and maintain a connection to the land.
		In the story, the answer to the question is: The grail serves the king, and by the king, the land.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/reinli/54/id256.htm (767 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Bastille Quiz
		Where was Charlemagne, the great king of the Franks, born and where did he subsequently base his court?
		Normandy was established in the early 900s by a group of people known as the Normandes.
		July 14 is Bastille Day, which celebrates the overthrow of the Bastille in Paris at the start of the French Revolution.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/quiz/Quiz.aspx?QuizID=186 (206 words)

	Pelles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In some texts, Pelles is one of the Fisher Kings, but in Chrétien's Perceval the name of the Fisher King is never given and this is neither stated in the Perlesvaus.
		In the Didot-Perceval the Fisher King is Bron, Percival's grandfather, and not Pelles.
		In the Vulgate Cycle and Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, Pelles is Fisher King once again and receives visits of Bors, Galahad, and Percival, during their quests for the Holy Grail.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/p/pelles.html (142 words)

	Gilliam's Grail -- The Fisher King...Articles
		Though it may be overly ambitious, The Fisher King proves to be a rich, satisfying mix of humor, fantasy, and emotion.
		The Fisher King is a modern, eccentric and imaginative retelling of the legend of the Holy Grail.
		A grandiose, overblown attempt to fuse the medieval myth of the Fisher King with a story of alienation and redemption in contemporary Manhattan.
	members.shaw.ca /GilliamsGrail/articles-reviews.htm (1513 words)

	The High History of the Holy Grail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Outright sovereign of Aquitaine, the richest and fairest province of France, she was married very young to the King of France.
		He invests the encounter with the Fisher King with just the right amount of awe and reverence mixed in with the mystery and strangeness.
		Bran was wounded in the foot, echoing the Fisher King's injury, a spear wound through the thigh.
	www.sangraal.com /histgrail.htm (4149 words)

	The Fool and The Fisher King
		Finding the Grail becomes the Fisher King's obsession but none of his knights are able to bring it to him.
		Medieval society were the King and The Fool.
		These are central to both the legend of the Fisher King and the Tarot.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/tarot/94738 (422 words)

	Guinevere ~ Other Characters in Arthurian Legend \| King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Variously portrayed in literature, she is called the daughter of King Leodegrance (Lleudd-Ogrfan) of Cameliard by Malory, the daughter of King Ogrfan Gawr (the Giant) of Castell y Cnwclas (Knucklas Castle) by Welsh Tradition, the daughter of King Garlin
		This appears to echo the story of the False Guinevere of French Romance: an identical half-sister of the Queen fathered on the same night who persuaded Arthur that she was his true wife.
		For two and a half years, the King was separated from the real Guinevere until the deception was uncovered.
	www.kingarthursknights.com /others/guinevere.asp (390 words)

	The Fisher King's clumsy fantasy plot falls flat
		The Fisher King opens with Jack Lucas, New York City's most popular shock DJ (adequately played by Jeff Bridges), engaging in verbal battles with the callers of his hit radio talk show.
		At one point, Parry tells Jack the legend of the Fisher King, a ruler whose world was collapsing around him until a fool was able to show him how to satisfy his goals, in case anyone in the audience couldn't see well into the next reel.
		The Fisher King seems to use Parry's imaginings of the Grail and his hallucinations of a Red Knight as a clumsy, and often unnecessary, means of paralleling the story with a medieval quest.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V111/N38/fisher.38a.html (717 words)

	The Fisher King (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It deals with the legend of the Fisher King from Arthurian romance.
		Parry is on a mission to find the Holy Grail, and tries to convince Lucas to help him; Lucas is initially reluctant, but comes to feel responsible for Parry when he learns that the man's condition is a result of witnessing his wife's death at the hands of Lucas's psychotic caller.
		Gilliam was forced to publically claim as his own by the producers.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Fisher_King_(movie) (468 words)

	IMDb user comments for The Fisher King (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Fisher King, a 1991 film directed by Terry Gilliam is based on the myth of the same name-a medieval legend that tells the tale of a dying king who through betrayal and tragedy has lost the Holy Grail.
		Parry escapes into madness and homelessness, as in a sense does Jack (though his is manifested through alcohol and a parasitic relationship) and they are each lost in a world of guilt that they are powerless to overcome.
		Terry Gilliam's THE FISHER KING is a great story, a great vision but a disappointing film that comes close to greatness just before it meanders off into near mediocrity.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0101889/usercomments (2348 words)

	The Fisher King
		One of Wolfram's most mysterious characters is the ‘Grail King’ who is the guardian of the Holy Grail and is also known as ‘the Fisher King’.
		The Fisher King then is our unconscious guide, forevercasting his net in an effort to draw the sparkling facets of understanding, compassion, individuality, love, or simply, the realisation of Christ, up from the formless sea of unconsciousness into the light of awareness.
		The Fisher King poster merges Buddhist, Christian and Arthurian influences into one great ‘zoe’ ‘diak’or ‘life wheel’.
	www.forrester-roberts.co.uk /fisher_king.html (441 words)

	The Fisher King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Surprisingly, The Fisher King's ultimate problem is not that these divergent goals stumble awkwardly into one another; almost everyone involved works admirably to negotiate the entire range of tones suggested in the writing.
		The plot of The Fisher King is too strange to elaborate much further without ruining the momentum of the film, a misdeed that Gilliam himself commits about twenty minutes before the movie's conclusion.
		Not that flamboyance is always such a bad thing, and while its energy level remains high, The Fisher King's florid acting and lavish visuals provide the wild ride we expect from Gilliam, a former member of the Monty Python troupe.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /fishking.html (748 words)

	Fisher King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But it all boils down to The Fisher’s King’s understanding of friendship and the priorities of life.
		The Fisher King is highlighted by terrific performances.
		Parry is a fine showcase for him to mine some of the sadness that lurks underneath the veneer of every brilliant comic.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/fisher_king.htm (603 words)

	King Fisher Enterprises
		King Fisher Charters provides Charter Fishing out of Neah Bay harbor from May through mid-September.
		King Fisher Inn, providing beautiful, spacious and comfortable accommodations overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is open all year, We have been given a five star rating by the Mobil Travel Guide.
		King Fisher Inn is available for craft and quilting retreats, and for small group getaways.
	www.kingfisherenterprises.com (256 words)

	‘The Fisher King’ (R)
		Terry Gilliam's "The Fisher King" is an odd beast.
		"Fisher" has two redemption stories, in which jaded disc jockey Jeff Bridges and traumatized drifter Robin Williams attempt to save each other.
		There are colorful visions of red knights, but there is also the harsh truth of the streets.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thefisherkingrhowe_a0b345.htm (557 words)

	The Fisher King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		With it you will offer healing for the hurts of men." But the young king, eyes clouded by his own inner visions of power and glory, reached into the fire to take the Grail, and his hand was terribly burned.
		As the king drank, he found that his wounded hand was healed.
		The Fisher King is a modern fairy tale after the pattern of stories by authors of urban fantasy like Charles de Lint.
	www.greenmanreview.com /film/video_fisherking.html (1124 words)

	Art Tao Press Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Healing the Fisher King is the First Place Winner in the Body, Mind, Spirit Category of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award.
		Healing the Fisher King is the Readers Preference 2003 Phyllis Newmann Literature Award winner.
		Healing the Fisher King is a Finalist in NAPRA's Nautilus Awards for the Small Press Category and the Independent Publishers IPPY Awards in the New Age Category.
	www.arttaopress.com (379 words)

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