The cup that runneth over Noel Malcolm praises this quest to disentangle the numerous myths and meanings that have grown up around the Holy Grail

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: January 18, 2004| Author: Noel Malcolm | Copyright information

The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief

by Richard Barber

Allen Lane, pounds 25, 464 pp

pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

IN HIS BREEZILY comic novel A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, Mark Twain pokes fun briefly at the cult of the Holy Grail. "The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several-years' cruise. Every year expeditions went out holy Grailing and next year relief expeditions went to hunt for them. There was...

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