Then the swan appeared with the boat, and Loherangrin, for it was he, was drawn back to Montsalvat, whence he had come. But at the last the queen was led to put the fatal question. Then her marriage with the stranger knight was celebrated, and they abode together long in happiness and honor. Should you nevertheless wish me to remain with you, you must never ask who I am otherwise I must leave you forever.” The queen made solemn protestation that she would never do aught against his will. To him the queen at once gave greeting as lord of her dominions but in the presence of the assembled folk he said to her : “If I am to become ruler of this land, know that it will be at great sacrifice to myself. One day a knight of great beauty and nobley, as Sir Thomas Mallory would have said, came to Antwerp in a boat drawn by a swan. Many princes sought her hand in marriage, but she refused them all, and waited for the coming of one whom God had disclosed to her in a vision. When he had grown to manhood, there lived in Brabant a queen who was equally gifted in beauty, wealth, and gentleness. This son was a lad when Parzival (thus Wolfram spells the name) became King of the Holy Grail and the knights who were in its service. IN the last hundred lines of the last book of his epic poem to which Wagner went for the fundamental incidents, not principles, of his “Parsifal,” Wolfram von Eschenbach tells the story of one of the Grail King’s sons whom he calls Loherangrin.

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