S J G Ronald Murphy: 2 books
Gemstone of Paradise
The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
The story of the Holy Grail has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in medieval romances, among them Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c. 1210). Strangely, the Grail is identified in Parzival not as a cup or dish, but as a stone. This oddity is usually...
Tree of Salvation
Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Mythopoeic Myth & Fantasy Studies Award At the heart of the mythology of the Anglo-Scandinavian-Germanic North is the evergreen Yggdrasil, the tree of life believed to hold up the skies and unite and separate three worlds: Asgard, high in the tree, where the gods dwelled in...