RSS gives me "Invalid feed URL"

Hello,
I am only starting using RSS feeds. I can see in Mail that I can register RSS feeds, but I don't seem to get how to use it - I get an error message:-
I select "file" > "Add RSS feeds"
I select "Specify the URL for a feed"
I enter html://www.thegrail.eu in the field.
I click on "Add"
-> I get the error message "Invalid feed URL"
Can you help me?

What are you doing differently?
He's entering the address for the website, not its feed at the URL you gave; and he's preceding it with html:// when of course it should be http://
http://www.thegrail.eu/feed

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