Un graal antre ses deuz mains
Une dameisele tenoit
Et avoec les vaslez venoit,
Bele et jointe et bien acesmee.
Quant ele fu leanz antree
A tot le graal qu’ele tint,
Une si granz clartez an vint,
Ausi perdirent les chandoiles
Lor clarté come les estoiles
Qant li solauz lieve, et la lune. (Perceval lines 3220-9)
A maiden accompanying the two young men was carrying a grail with her two hands; she was beautiful, noble, and richly attired. After she had entered the hall carrying the grail the room was so brightly illuminated that the candles lost their brilliance like stars and the moon when the sun rises. (Kibler 420)
