Amfortas

/ æmˈfɔːtəs /

noun

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Amfortas waves it to and fro—the knights gaze in ecstatic adoration.

The talk is of Amfortas, the king, and of his incurable wound.

It can not wound the guileless and pure one as it wounded the sinful Amfortas.

Is the Grail, too, then turned into a mocking spirit to the unhappy Amfortas?

He returns to bear salvation and pardon both to Kundry and the wretched king, Amfortas.

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