[Steppes] A scholarily question

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In a message dated 6/11/03 2:26:47 PM Central Daylight Time,
JCollins at ccsb.com writes:

> This question concerns Wolfram Von Eschenbach's "Parzival".  Does anyone
> know the ethnicity of Parzival's wife Condwiramurs?  I know the name is derived
> from the Old French, conduire amours ("to guide love"), and I know she is
> somehow related to the family of the Grail kings,  but I don't think she's
> French.  I thought she was Spanish in origin, but my husband claims she's
> Germanic

One theory is that the Grail Kings are supposed to originate in the area of
southern France nearest Spain and are of Merovingian origin, making them sort
of French but not Frankish...

Edwin