Wagner's holy grail found - in Scotland

Wagner was touching on age-old truths about time and space in Parsifal. Halfway up a Scottish peak, I finally understood what he meantI've found the holy grail of the knights of Monsalvat, from Wagner's Parsifal. And I found it not in northern Spain, as per Wagner's libretto, but in the far north-west of Scotland, and one of the world's greatest mountain-forms, Suilven – at least according to the last stanza of Norman MacCaig's poem Moment Musical in Assynt:I listen through my eyes and se...

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