Corbenic
Corbenic (also called Carbonek and Corbin ) is a castle that is mentioned in several Grail legends . At Furnivall it is the seat of the Lame King , whom Parzival meets here. In other versions, Corbenic is the Grail Castle itself.
Malory (Book 11) knows a bridge from Corbenic ( Pounte of Corbyn ) where Lancelot is asked to free a lady from the spell of Morgan le Fay and the Queen of North Galys , who had been her boiling bath for five years holds captive.
literature
- William A. Nitze: Glastonbury and the Holy Grail. In: Modern Philology 1/2, 1903, 247-257.
Individual evidence
- ↑ H. Nickel 1999, The Naked and the Best: Tests, Temptations, and Triumphal Rescues. Arthuriana 9/3, 83