Sunday Stories: Parzival

(Part One)

Parzival by Hans Thoma

Hello my friends, as promised we have a few weeks of the Epic of Parzival as our Sunday Story. I wrote Snowy Tower, my book of the story, ten years ago, and have been asked many times to read the story out loud. Well, finally, for you, here it is, on the below audio.

This first part of the story reveals Parzival’s mother Queen Herzeloyde refusing to marry for anything but love, radical in the times. When her husband is killed, she takes her son off into the forest to know nothing of becoming a knight and hence risking his life. However, destiny comes calling.