Gender: Masculine
Usage: English Welsh Mythology
Pronounced: PUR-si-val  

Old French form of Peredur, a Welsh name of unknown meaning. The spelling was altered under the influence of Old French percer val "to pierce the valley". In Arthurian legend Percival was a chivalrous knight who was given a glimpse of the Holy Grail.

 
 
 

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