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structured around a dramatic crisis – a clash of personalities, a heroic adventure – which is resolved and marks a return to order. Chrétien’s unfinished Conte du Graal was continued in verse by other hands. But the most significant continuation was made by Robert de Boron who, in the first years of the thirteenth century, invested the grail with a new religious significance. In his prose Roman de l’estoire dou Graal, the grail becomes a Christian relic and is entrusted to Bron, the Fisher King of Celtic legend