According to Arthurian legend, it was on Pentecost that the king always gathered his knights at the round table for a feast and a quest.
Goethe, Germany's great poet declared Pentecost "Das Liebliche Fest,“ “The Lovely Feast,” in a in his Reineke Fuchs.
Alexandre Dumas sets the sequel to The Three Musketeers at a feast to celebrate Penecost.
And Shakespeare sets the opening of Romeo and Juliette against the backdrop of Whitsuntide.
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