Corbenic
Sign in to saveCorbenic (Carbone[c]k, Corbin) is the name of the Grail castle, the edifice housing the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. It is a magical domain of the Grail keeper, often known as the Fisher King. The castle's descriptions vary greatly in different sources, and it first appears by that name in the Lancelot-Grail cycle where it is also the birthplace of Galahad.
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- Fictional location.name
- Corbenic
- Fictional location.image
- The Castle of Carboneck.png
- Fictional location.caption
- The Castle of Carboneck, William Henry Margetson for Legends of King Arthur and His Knights (1914)
- Fictional location.series
- Matter of Britain
- Fictional location.genre
- Arthurian legend
- Fictional location.type
- Enchanted castle of the Holy Grail
- Fictional location.people
- Fisher King, Elaine of Corbenic, Galahad
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- Grail castle
- Corbenic
- Cor-beneic: 'Blessed Horn' and 'Blessed Body'
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- References
Corbenic (Carbone[c]k, Corbin) is the name of the Grail castle, the edifice housing the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. It is a magical domain of the Grail keeper, often known as the Fisher King. The castle's descriptions vary greatly in different sources, and it first appears by that name in the Lancelot-Grail cycle where it is also the birthplace of Galahad.
== Grail castle == In Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail (c. 1190), one of the first works to mention the Grail, it is given no name other than being known as the castle of the Fisher King. As in the later works, the castle is given qualities of Celtic Otherworld (including its invisibility from the outside and seemingly changing locations), as the story's original Grail hero Perceval visits it only when invited and then cannot find it again despite searching for years.