Editing Holy Grail (section)

===''Perceval Continuations''===
Chrétien's Perceval does not achieve the quest, but four different authors attempted to completed his unfinished story in their own poems known as ''Perceval Continuations'' that include two successive follow up tales and then two alternative endings. In these works, the mysteries left unsolved by Chrétien (the bleeding lance, the broken sword, the wounded king) develop an explicitly Christian character, transforming a chivalric adventure into a mystical religious quest, undertaken by not only Perceval but also Gawain.<ref name=bnf/>

The ''First Continuation'' (''Gawain Continuation'') seemingly features two grails: a floating dish and a carved head of Jesus.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rmrYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA44|title=The Search for the Grail|first=Graham|last=Phillips|date=January 4, 1995|publisher=Century|isbn=978-0-7126-7533-8 |via=Google Books}}</ref> The ''Third Continuation'' has it again as carried by a girl.<ref name=bnf/> Here, the Fisher King dies and is replaced by Perceval, after whose death the Grail is taken to the Heaven.<ref name="mh">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jacBvHiRUWwC&pg=PA196|title=A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes: Characters in Medieval Narrative Traditions and Their Afterlife in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts|first1=Willem Pieter|last1=Gerritsen|first2=A. G. van|last2=Melle|date=January 4, 1998|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-0-85115-780-1 |via=Google Books}}</ref>