But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea to leave. Besides Chrétien’s original text, there are the anonymous First Continuation (translated here in its fullest version), the Second Continuation attributed to Wauchier de Denain, and the intriguing Third and Fourth Continuations – probably written simultaneously, with no knowledge of each other’s work – by Manessier and Gerbert de Montreuil.