#sir calogrenant

[queer-ragnelle]

favorite queer retellings/interpretations of arthurian legend

hello anon!

this simple question has a complicated answer if only bc some authors seem to have created queer stories unintentionally! & i like them! i'll include quotes from my suggestions below a cut as there will be some mild spoilers but that may help you decide what stories suit your tastes as they vary a lot. you can also just go ahead & assume kay & agravaine are always queer (bc they are, not accepting crit) which makes narrowing down the list difficult for me.

TL;DR: Camelot 3000 Mike W. Barr & Brian Bolland, Exiled From Camelot/Trial of Sir Kay/Hunt for Hart Royal by Cherith Baldry, Spear Nicola Griffith, Guinevere/Morgan/Morgawse by Lavinia Collins, The Queen's Knight by Marvin Borowsky, Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger, The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf.

Camelot 3000 by Mike W. Barr & Brian Bolland: reincarnation story with transman sir tristan coming to terms with his gender & sexuality so he can accept isolde's love for him & reciprocate. it's really beautifully written imo plus the art is so 80s & my exact cup of tea. it's dated in some of its handling of the subject matter but i think it was done thoughtfully for the time.

Exiled From Camelot, The Trial of Sir Kay, The Hunt for The Hart Royal by Cherith Baldry: the way baldry writes is overall my favorite ever but her kay is unparalleled he is everything to me. unequivocally disinterested in women (without misogyny, very important note). codependent on gawain if not fully in love with him the crown style. lots of hurt/comfort, kissing, holding & worrying over each other. they exchange a ring for god's sake. in exiled it says ragnelle was the only woman for gawain (based) but after she passed he's all kay's basically so this checks all my boxes. love wins.

Spear by Nicola Griffith: butch perceval pulling bitches chapter after chapter it's glorious. ends up settling down with nimue. bonus throuple arthur/guin/lance with a very sweet moment with lance talking to percy about them both. no homophobia (external nor internal) to be found its very enjoyable. beautiful prose. audiobook was wonderfully narrated by the author, which is how i read it, thus i've written out a quote here:

"Secrets may prove a burden. So...Lance, my mother is indeed Merlin's sister but I am not Merlin's sister's son." Lance frowned. "I don't understand..." "I am not his sister's son." His eyes stretched wide. He reassessed the line of her jaw, the size of her hands. She nodded. Then he reassessed how she and Nimue sat with one another. This time, Nimue nodded.

Guinevere, Morgan, & Morgawse by Lavinia Collins: these aren't my favorite (did gawain really dirty, deal breaker) but the fact is they have multiple explicitly queer characters including: kay, lancelot, morgawse, agravaine, isolde, dinadan, etc. plus there were several poly scenes including one with guin/lance/kay, another morgawse/lot/visiting king/queen swinging. wild all around everyone is sleeping with everyone no character is unaccounted for. be warned these books are extremely graphic in every conceivable way. queer solidarity in the face of homophobia is a theme throughout. kay punches phobic urien & agravaine "saw nothing." shh its fine urien sucks. this hilarious convo between agravaine & morgawse kills me.

The Queen's Knight by Marvin Borowsky: an interesting retelling in which mordred is a grown up warlord right from the outset. he also happens to be queer. mind this came out in the 50s & contains pederasty, but mordred does later have a loving tragic relationship with fellow knight calogrenant (yay crackships<3), which others were aware of & helped conceal (kay, for example). agravaine is also queer, he only joins arthur's forces bc lancelot asks him to & continues to fixate on him for the whole book. typical.

Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger: so this book is super homophobic. but it's so homophobic that it circles back around to being pretty queer bc berger saw queerness everywhere, apparently. but the green knight is purposefully queer, so the kissing game's gender-role-reversal/bisexuality....escalates. david lowery wishes. both gawain & arthur are pretty homoromantic with lancelot to the point the narrative calls attention to it & then no-homos their closeness. agravaine appears to be queer too. he's the only unmarried brother (claims to be in love with guinevere but i don't buy it), he wants lancelot so bad he gets all tongue tied & stupid around him...wrecked.

The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf: what's this? agravaine again? so in this version, lancelot is named bedwyr (inspired by mary stewart's quadrilogy) but he's lance in all but name. anyway agravaine constantly beefs with guinevere for his attention...& loses. plus it's implied agravaine slept with lamorak before his mother which is hysterical. (my fave crackship is thriving<3) agravaine topples the empire for a much older straight man. it would be funny if it wasn't so sad. let's give it up for problematic jealous slutty queers.

these are just the retellings i have read & liked. there are more on my retellings list but those were suggestions from others i haven't gotten to yet with the exception of dishonorable mention to the winter knight by jes battis. it has gay gawain & his bestie transgirl bi kay in that but the writing style was unbearable to me unfortunately i'm so sorry i just didn't like it. anyway thanks for the ask!

#arthurian legend #arthuriana #arthurian legends #queer #lgbtq #book recommendations #book reccs #sir tristan #queen isolde #sir lancelot #sir kay #sir gawain #sir bertilak #the green knight #sir agravaine #sir mordred #sir bedwyr #sir calogrenant #sir dinadan #queen guinevere #sir perceval #sir percival #nimue #lady of the lake #king arthur #queen morgause #ask #anonymous

[tiodolma]

SIR CALOGRENANT: i was defeated soundly. oh for shame

KAY THE SENESCHAL: oh pls calogrenant you and your whiny ass just wanna gain favor with the queen. u think you are all so better than us jfc

MY LORD YVAIN: I will avenge you, cousin!!

KAY: and here is bootlicker Yvain always making himself look good in front of our sovereign

QUEEN GUINEVERE: stfu kay. one more word and im gonna hang you for treason

KAY THE SENESCHAL: (sticks out his tongue)

MY LORD YVAIN: nah it's okay my queen, Kay's words don't really mean anything to me

KING ARTHUR: lol calogrenant's adventure sounds interesting. what if i go avenge him too? that would be fun!

MY LORD YVAIN: squire u gotta dress me real quick. i must go. dont ever let anyone find out where im going. esp the king.

MY LORD YVAIN: im gonna find the places calogrenant went, and then i will have adventures, i will have a place of glory. fuck Kay tbh. im gonna make him eat his words.

MY LORD YVAIN: (kills a local lord, watches on as the lord's wife and people mourn and thrash in grief)

DAMSEL: jfc sir hide yourself. listen to me. and dont make a fuss so that these people wont find you and kill you.

MY LORD YVAIN: gdi i need evidence that i killed a man coz Kay will be so goddamn annoying if i dont bring home a war trophy

......

liveblob notes: kay is the real final boss here istg

#arthuriana #yvain knight with the lion #sir yvain #sir kay #sir calogrenant #chretien de troyes #heli blobbing #sir kay is the only that makes this arthuriana interesting lol #hes so bitchy everyone just wanna make him shut up #i love kay very much hahahhaah

[art-blogge]

this was SUPPOSED to only be kirby stuff after the first two (Makenna and Mephi). SUPPOSED TO. we see how well THAT went.

i will not be explaining the falspar corner beyond “rebalanced OP power i arbitrarily decided on when i was like 12 and refuse to remove”. solo galacta knight bc i think it came out cute.

#doodle page tagge #bors #calogrenant #sir kay #falspar #galacta #marx #makenna

[gellavonhamster]

reading the post-vulgate, part 2 (the quest for the holy grail)

Lancelot describing Galahad as "strangely beautiful" makes me imagine Galahad was the kind of child who looks angelic but says the most cryptic shit

I love misinterpreting chapter titles on purpose

like, oh no, what happened, were they such bad guests?

Tristan's horse is called BASTARD

I gotta be honest, I'm just skimming some parts because they largely repeat the Grail Quest in the Vulgate, and I'm not interested in the Grail Quest enough to read it for the second time in a row

but at least this one has Palamedes. Everything is better with Palamedes

Calogrenant's death is fascinating - his body bleeds milk instead of blood, and from this milk some sort of medicinal/poisonous herbs grow

Guinevere wearing a crown of thorns in Lancelot's dream. Hmm.

“Whatever [Mordred] may be,” said Gawain, “he’s our brother, and we must love him, however much others hate him.” 💔💔💔

Agravaine tells Gawain that either Lancelot or Eric is fated to kill him, and Gawain immediately goes "oh, that certainly can't be Lancelot, he'd risk his life for me"... god

the story of the conception and family of Arthur the Less is some dark shit

Arthur and Morgan parted on worst possible terms and yet he asks her for information about his son and she actually provides it

you can always count on Palamedes for Pining and Yearning and Longing

"Galahad went off across the forest, glad to escape from Tristan’s company" relatable

love that Tristan and Palamedes are never, never normal about each other

"the More Than Good Knight" is such a funny title

very interesting that in this version Perceval's virtuous, self-sacrificial sister who takes part in the Grail quest also concocts a plan to have Gawain killed for the murder of her relatives

did NOT have King Mark trying to invade Logres on my bingo card for this

"When Kay heard this, he could not help saying, “Sir knight, I’m King Arthur’s man, and I’m so much his that I would be disloyal if I didn’t avenge him on all his enemies with all my strength. For love of him I say to you that you have no greater enemy in the world than I." 💔

"Lancelot’s luxurious lifestyle" is sending me

Palamedes <3

points were made!

Esclabor killing himself after the death of his son and ordering his squire to write the letters on his son's tombstone with his blood... insane insane insane

this must be the most incest-heavy version of Arthuriana I've read so far? Nothing prepared me for the origins of the Questing Beast

#it appears i find the grail quest a bit more digestible when it's not just galahad & bors & perceval being pious #anyway palamedes guy of all time #arthurian legends #arthuriana #gella talks arthuriana #talk talk talk #galahad #tristan #palamedes #gawain #lancelot du lac #calogrenant #esclabor #kay

[cypriathus]

Here is my version of Sir Calogrenant!

POTENTIAL TRIGGER WARNING: There is a brief mention of death during childbirth.

Kaloghrentius Äglovetrud L’Eyschatonur is the notorious, honourable, taciturn, and somewhat oblivious Sanguine Knight who has an acrid, raunchy, and cheeky tongue. Despite his foul mouth, he’s unfailingly polite and good-mannered, often expressing himself in a thoughtful way. He’s quite respectful, but it becomes an immediate loss when someone treats him rudely or harms his daughter, niece, and/or two nephews. He’s abnormally passionate about his line of work and ruthless when it comes to battling and people who provoke his fury. He uses his language in an eloquent and seductive fashion, and possesses an unwavering dedication to justice and vengeance. He has a willingness to defend the weak and oppressed, and he’s always up for a good challenge and a bloody, yet fair fight. He’s self-sacrificing, energetic, and fearsome, but occasionally experiences melancholic thoughts of doubt, uncertainty, and inferiority. There are instances where he comes off as arrogant, blunt, and snobbish, but that’s only directed towards low-ranking demons and irredeemable people. He can be easily distracted by the kindness of others and adorable things that remind him of his daughter. Despite his valiant nature, Kaloghrentius is unfortunately known for his impulsiveness, hot-headedness, and sadistic attitude.

Kaloghrentius is a 11’ 3” (342.9 cm) endomorph with mildly tan skin, a rectangular figure, some muscle, and a beer belly. He has sparkling heterochromia eyes–right is fountain blue and the left is mule fawn–with slit pupils of old gold. He has six scars on his face: a blotchy scar on the right side of his jawline; one that covers his entire left cheek and reaches to the underside of his ear; a horizontal one across the middle of his face; and three diagonal scratches on his forehead. His shoulder-length, side-parted red brown hair is accompanied with messy curls, sideburns, and a scruffy Balbo beard.

He dons a full suit of plate armour drenched in blood and a royal mantle of black with snow leopard trim. The mantle is decorated in a khokhloma pattern with blue snowflakes, bright red roses, green fishes, and a golden firebird in the centre. He wears a Russian boyar helmet flanked with a stylised wolf’s head in rose gold and tipped with two ostrich plumes. His cuirass depicts a ruddy kingfisher that has a long-haired woman’s head and his shoulder pads are chamois buck skulls with golden horns. Kaloghrentius possesses two shields with one of them serving as a backup: a red shield with a golden insignia depicting a coiled serpent devouring a naked man; and a pink shield with an angry white lion that has red claws on a crusily field. He wields a long-handled peasant flail that can create lakes, wildfires, tornadoes, and blizzards with a single strike. He also wields a parashu of wootz steel and a strong leather grip that enhances one’s military expertise.

He looks relatively the same when in his infernal form, but he doesn’t wear any clothes and has some noticeable physical changes. He’s 14’ 7” (444.5 cm) with a twisted head that’s blinded by bloody tears and scaly Prussian blue skin. He has the lower half of an eight-legged dun Priob horse with a dorsal stripe and zebra bars on the legs. He has four grotesquely muscular arms, massive rooster wings, and praying mantis forelegs in the middle of the Priob horse. A gnarly, cerulean-eyed, serpent-tongued wolf head adorns his abdomen and a horned viper is wrapped around his neck. Kaloghrentius’ golden-clawed fingers are slender and elongated, and his tail is reminiscent of a smoothhound.

Kaloghrentius has fantastic offensive and defensive combat skills that are far superior to most mortal and immortal beings. His combat encompasses incredible and efficient speed, strength, precision, reflexes, blade techniques, warfare and one-to-one battle analysis, bodily control, adaptation, and all aspects of practical fighting. His landscape-shattering strength waxes and wanes with the Sun, and he can summon storms and manipulate spring water and hallucinations. He’s able to heal severe wounds and change his size to match with the tallest tree known to humanity if he pleased. He can generate heat from his hands and suppress his physical need for sleep for an entire month. He has instincts to kill knightly enemies, infernal adversaries, and those who harm his daughter in the most effective ways possible. He has psychokinesis and heightened senses, and he can serpents, lion carcasses, and countries he’s familiar with to teleport. Kaloghrentius is a master of botany, geology, hunting, fishing, combat, seduction, and inducing sexual gratification and satisfaction.

FAMILY:

Unnamed giant murderer demon father

Unnamed sorcerer demon mother

Melothardius Bertolakhius Haludozert (adoptive older brother)

Pelmazodius Malwegrontius-Ulfebhorga Culwodrena (nephew)

Gwalchemozius Vortaghenius (daughter)

Gwalchevodius D’Balenomius (granddaughter)

ALIASES/NICKNAMES:

Sanguine Knight

The Great Fool

King of the White Mountain

FUN FACTS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

As an Æylphitus, the different parts of his name have special meanings: Kaloghrentius means “rejoicing grumbler”, Äglovetrud means “trap of a valley’s strength”, and L’Eyschatonur means “north shine”.

During his younger years, he had a foolish and talkative mindset, but would later abandon it for a more chivalrous and quiet attitude.

He despises Melothardius

After he went his separate ways with his brother, he decided to live in Russia because he found their language to be humorously endearing.

He lives in a castle of icy fire, solar rocks, and underworld stone at the base of a snowy mountain deep in the heart of Russia, which has an eclectic melding of Byzantine elements and pre-Petrine architecture. Not only is it his home, it’s used as a boundary between Nifjazroghetus and the earthly plane of existence.

He has a habit of grumbling to himself, especially when he’s feeling bitter and angry.

He likes to brag about how he managed to seduce Gwalchemozius’ mother in a light-hearted, yet crude manner. He often cites that she experienced the most divine moment in her entire life before her untimely death during childbirth.

He loves drinking medovukha and kvass

#writerscorner #writing #creative writing #death tw #death mention tw #childbirth tw #original character #personality #physical appearance #outfit #abilities #power #calogrenant #escanor #arthurian legend #red knight #russian #demon #fool #king #fun facts #extra information

[christophercant]

Day 23: Esclados, Lord of the Storm-Fountain

The otherworldly protector of Broceliande forest, Esclados was accidentally summoned by Sir Calogrenant when he stumbled upon a fountain in a hidden glade. He spilled some of the water from the fountain, causing a storm and drawing the spirit out to defeat him for his impudence. Many years later, his cousin Sir Ywain travelled to the same fountain, drew out Esclados and destroyed him, taking his place as the guardian of the fountain.

I intended this sketch to be for the Black Knight, brother to the Faerie Knight, but it just refused to look right.  So I made him into a different red and spiky character, and liked it much better!

#arthurian knights #arthurian lore #arthurian mythology #arthurian fantasy #arthurian legend #king arthur #celtic mythology

[knightfighttourney]

Tie Breaker Bracket, Week 2

#sir cador will continue to be represented by poptropica because it's funny as hell #knight fight tournament #tumblr polls #tournament #fandom poll #tournament poll #poll #week 2

[swixtern]

In attempt to get back into writing, here's

A bit about my Arthurian anthology (retelling) that nobody asked for:

Whispers: it's going to be a mess... sorry... It's also long and out of order...

Ambrosius was poisoned by Uther, his brother by their father’s second wife

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Uther is a shape-shifter and Gwrlais studied magic while fostering under Consul Aurelius

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Igraine is Jewish. I don’t know; it just feels right. And she’s a proven warrior (her sisters, too).

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Anna is Gwrlais’ eldest, then Elaine, then Morgan

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Merlin puts Arthur in a brothel (I’m sorry, but I really enjoyed that idea from King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)

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Uther’s next, and only other child, was named Anna, and she is not to be confused with Anna of Orkney

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Arthur leaves the brothel at 14 after he turns Cai (who is 17) in to the city guard for whatever crime he’s committed; Sir Ector comes to inquire after him, intrigued by the boy, and takes him away with him when his secret heritage is made known

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Cai is acting out due to his father, Cynyr Ceinfarfog, and mother, Sir Ector’s currently unnamed sister (probably named Elaine 😂 *shot*🙃), being killed; Sir Ector is his uncle, and he loves him, but he’s frustrated and grieving

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Arthur is called “Boy Rivers” until Sir Ector takes him in, giving him back the name Arthur; Cai calls him Wart every chance he can

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Bedwyr is black and two handed at first; he and Arthur meet in battle against the Saxons and they become fast pals. Griflet is mixed race

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Arthur stole pigs belonging to Mark, King of Cornwall; finds it hard to trust Arthur after that, even after Arthur pulls the sword Clarent from The Anvil™️

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The sword Clarent is pulled from an anvil on a stone

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There are three Guineveres: G1 mothers Arthur’s daughters; G2 dies within the first year; G3 mothers Amr and much later Loholt.

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Arthur marries G2 when he becomes King of Logres after pulling Clarent; he’s approximately __ years old (I really need to find the timeline that I did... I think he was, like, in his thirties?)

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Lancelot tries to repress his homosexuality. Galehaut encourages his exploration (but never pushes) but his duty to King and Country™️ keep him away a lot; the longer Lancelot is around Arthur, the more he falls in love with him, the more he represses it, the more he needs to convince himself he loves Guinevere. He’s a confused mess.

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Lot is not the name of the King of Lothian (anymore; he dies), it’s Uen; when Mordred is 13, he curses his ‘father’ so that the world will forget the man’s name

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May Day Massacre totally happened and that’s when Gawain uncovered his sun-powers

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Geheris has Moderate-ID

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Mordred spends his 14th birthday on a ship to Norway; he doesn’t see his family again until he’s 17 and he returns with strong Viking-ties

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Most of the Orkney Clan look next to nothing alike: Gawain is big and strapping with red hair and freckles galore; Ywain has auburn hair and light freckling, he’s a bit narrow and willowy; Gravaine is built like a barn and pale like his father with black hair; Clarissant, Agravaine’s twin, shares his black hair and stocky build but she has freckles that covered her face; Soredamor has medium-brown hair, she’s the tallest and thinnest of the lot, but physically frail with a chronic cough; Geheris is stocky with black hair, a red beard, a ruddy skin tone, and freckles; Cai the Grumbler, or Calogrenant, has light brown hair and green eyes; Gareth is albino with mismatched eyes (one brown, one pale); Mordred’s hair is long and dark brown and his eyes match Arthur’s grey; Yvain has freckles and Urien's black hair and short stature; Morfydd has pale blonde hair, dark brown eyes, and is short and curvy

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Tristan and Mordred are bros who adopt each other almost immediately

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Gay Squad: Dinadan, Galehaut, Lancelot, Ywain, Calogrenant

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Bi-Team: Galahad, Gawain, Lamo (Mordred’s servant), Bertilak, Mabon ap Modron

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Aces: Morgan le Fay, Mordred, Ambrosius Aurelianus

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Magic users: Uther Pendragon, Gwrlais, Morgan, Guinevere the Third, Myrddin, Mordred, Cwyllog, Iseult (Queen of Cornwall, Princess of Ireland), technically Tristan via harp, Gawain via solar power, technically Cai because giants

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Tristan seems drunk when he’s sober and he knows elf-tunes; the court learned that the hard way when they heckled him one too many times and he magicked those of them who weren’t sent out of the hall into an orgy they never speak of

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As much as Cai honestly loves being a knight, he's also got this secret passion for cooking and all things culinary; despite all his outward protesting of being Seneschal, he actually jumped at the chance, seeing it as a way to indulge his "little selfish interest" and to sort out all the riffraff trying to get in with Arthur

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I’m about convinced that the Orkneys as a unit lean Slytherin and Pellinore’s family leans Griffindor; this is not the cause of the feud but a participating factor in why it keeps escalating as it does

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G3 is technically a low(low low)-level earth goddess tied to the land (family of Welsh giants), and that's part of the reason she feels drawn to the men she's drawn to but her actions towards --and with-- them are her own

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Guinevak is G3's twin in every way but mothering, magic, and looks; she's the rejected bastard who spends a lot of time with Mordred, Galahad, Calogrenant, and Tristan; envious of G3, Lynette, and Cwyllog --each for different reasons

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Urien was first married to Modron (the relationship deteriorated after Mabon's abduction and she returned to Annwn) before patiently pressing suit to Morgan who eventually yields as "friends in matrimony". After Morgan chooses Accolon for a lover, Urien is upset but allows this, naming him as her personal knight

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Urien does not do comfort. Ask Morgan and Anna about when they found out Uen had sent Mordred away and the mother was distraught

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Bedwyr loses his right hand as penance for Arthur stealing King Mark's pigs.

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Yvain is a bastard child sired by Urien on his steward's wife after Morgan and Accolon are... happy together

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Anna of Orkney is... twisted up. She loves her children (a little... too much sometimes) and tries to do right by them but... well... yeah... it's... it's no bueno

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Cai has super powers. Access giant-size, extra endurance, impervious to hot or cold, and heat-radiating hands

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Uther is... terrible. He's the sorta worst, really. Seriously, the things he does

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Eigyr is not passive in captivity; that does not mean things go well for her

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Morgan was learning magic from Gwrlais and took his scrolls and books on the subject hostage after his death

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Gwrlais' daughter Elaine (the one who marries Nentres) is devotedly Jewish like her mother and raises her children as such (such as Galeshin and Hoel).

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Nentres adores Elaine in marriage and even before that took his vows as her knight and betrothed seriously; he carries whipping scars on his back (from Uther) for trying to rescue Morgan from a monastery in her name. He tells Arthur later that he bears them proudly

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Cai's parents are dead because of Uther (I can't remember how) and Sir Ector's father was a Roman soldier who stayed behind

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Mordred is technically Melehan's step-father (he's a bastard by rape) but only Mordred and the mother know. They don't talk about it

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Elaine of Garlot has psychological damage from the things Uther has done to her family and others in front of her. She has no tolerance for violence and aggression.

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Tristan has PTSD and severe depression; he's also an alcoholic

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Nentres slowly poisoned Uther over the years with hemlock

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Mordred's first wife is a Lothian common girl-turned-slave-turned-servant that he's known from childhood. Her name is Julianna, and her family name is Ruricius, coming from a Roman-merchant connection

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Morgan has been locked in a monastery twice; she escapes the second time after Uther's death and runs into Urien for the first time

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Urien owns the first claymore. His father had it made for him as joke but he's a pro now so, well, guess who has the last laugh?

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Agravaine killed a Unicorn as a child; it's okay, Unicorns are kinda evil here and will straight-up murder you

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Urien doesn't age, eat, or drink (he hasn't since Modron); he still looks super young, roughly 16-17. His younger brothers and later on his own children look older than him

#arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian #king arthur #mordred #sir kay #sir bedivere #sir gawain #sir tristan #sir gareth #lancelot #guinevere #guinevak #king urien #merlin #fuck uther #king uther #morgan le fay #morgause #arthurian retelling #igraine #gorlais #arthuria #geheris #orkney bros #orkney brothers #orkney clan #writting #writing #agravaine

[the-dormant-ocean]

Arthur: Qui c’est qui est en froid avec Lancelot?

Calogrenant: C’est pas vous?

Hervé de Rinel: Moi c’est ce que j’avais compris.

Arthur: Mais n’importe quoi. Je suis en froid avec que dalle.

Bohort: Sir, loin de nous de nous immiscer dans votre vie personnelle.

Donc la relation entre Arthur et Lancelot est considérée comme personnelle. Bohort knows what’s up!

#kaamelott #Arthur Kaamelott #Lancelot Kaamelott #arthur x lancelot #Je chipotes? #Oui est alors?

[caitdrawsthings]

Just a bunch of things I’ve drawn over the past few months that I didn’t post. 

Row one:    1) An actually happy Bors the Younger.    2) King Lot of Orkney

Row two:    1) Sir Cynon and Sir Kalebrant/Calogrenant, twin brothers here instead of a prototype and contemporary    2) Bors the Younger as a king     3) Bors the Younger in a suit 

Row three:    Sir Bedivere in a sweater because based Arco Wada

#cait's art #Arthurian Mythology #boy I wonder who I have a soft spot for doodling

[queer-ragnelle]

spoilers for merlin and the sword (1985) which isn’t supposed to be funny, and yet…

#Arthurian legend #Arthuriana #sir mordred #sir agravaine #sir agravain #sir calogrenant #merlin and the sword #merlin and the sword (1985) #if you can find this movie to watch DO IT #my post

[tiodolma]

Sir Kay the Seneschal vs Queen Guinevere btchfight here we gooo

Meanwhile My Dear Lord Yvain is like “I will avenge you cousin Calogrenant!!”

Calogrenant: i wish i didnt say anything

Always a fun day in King Arthur’s household

#sir kay #yvain knight with the lion #queen guinevere #arthuriana #sir kay is so fun tho #heli blobbing

[aethelar]

rythaleia replied to your post “Newton Artemis Fido Scamander”

maybe we need to wait for graves' middle name before the prophecy is complete

... Graves’ middle name is Calogrenant, which means Cai the grumpy and it’s thought that the name was originally a false name for Sir Kay, an Arthurian knight known for his bad temper.

So, uh, there’s that.

#rythaleia #percival graves #mimi answers #and yes before anyone asks this is entirely headcanon but i'm sticking with it

[queer-ragnelle]

Hi! Your flowchart is amazing, and I'm so excited by the literature list you made. However, I was wondering if you know which book is best to start reading more about Arthurian legend? I have only collected knowledge through osmosis, so I have no clue where or how to start learning more. Thank you for your time and have a nice day!

hello!

thank you, i'm glad they're helpful for you! i did answer a similar ask about what medieval texts to begin with here and link to free resources, but the formatting is hard on the eyes, and now that my own collection is available, i'll reiterate. all suggested translations are available on my blog.

le morte d'arthur by sir thomas malory: you'll get the most mileage out of this book as malory sourced a broad spectrum of stories to incorporate them into a single text, which includes arthur's conception, pulling the sword from the stone, receiving excalibur from the lady of the lake, marrying to guinevere, young gawain's knighting and first quest, tristan and isolde's romance, the grail quest, final battle at camlann etc. plus malory himself invented some of the most iconic stories, such as gareth's time as the kitchen boy, beaumains. with this book alone, the majority of retellings will make sense to you. but be warned it can be extremely dry (and confusing timeline wise, calogrenant dies twice bc malory couldn't keep his own story straight!), i recommend the keith baines translation as it's rewritten into prose like a novel.

the vulgate cycle: it's 10 books. i know it's 10 books. but it's simply the best. the truncated nature of malory's le morte d'arthur leaves the majority of characters reduced to singular traits (orkney bros the mindless killers, priggish grail knights etc.) which has negatively influenced many retellings since imo. this is not an issue with the vulgate where everyone has a little more nuance and depth, even the bad guys, but especially the characters we're supposed to root for like lancelot and gawain. many fun characters who were cut from le morte d'arthur are fully developed here like half-giant galehaut and gawain's baby mama the lady of lys. i'm putting it high on the list bc i simply think more people should try it. i recommend the translation edited by norris j. lacy. he's incredible and i love all of his translation work. footnotes right in the margin will remind the reader of past references and explain language subtleties lost in translation (like puns) or indicate what was changed for ease of understanding (sometimes the scribes made mistakes and named the wrong character, which lacy will fix and then note he fixed). so if one can get past the sheer volume of text, it's a wonderful read, and i even have specific stories within it i could recommend. but i digress...

sir gawain and the green knight: it goes without saying this poem is iconic. the pearl poet (as the anonymous author is called) wrote beautifully and the version of gawain here is a much kinder portrayal than what he appears in the post vulgate, which was a major source for malory's le morte d'arthur. the beheading exchange/game is the focus here, although this motif will appear in many other texts, such as perlesvaus, and the sgatgk story appears in the majority of retellings that include gawain, so it's a must read. i recommend the j. r. r. tolkien translation (the audiobook version of this translation is phenomenal, like music).

four arthurian romances + the story of the grail by chrétien de troyes: except you can skip cligés bc its mediocre at best. really what you'll need from this is knight of the cart (the first ever story in which lancelot appears and he's very pathetic and weepy and insane and lovable haters dni), knight with the lion (gawain's cousin yvain gets a pet lion, fights a dragon, gets married, gets divorced, goes mad, recovers, gets married again...), erec and enide (worst husband in the universe), and the story of the grail (perceval and gawain adventures). a version of these stories were adapted into le morte d'arthur and the vulgate (except for yvain's lion which is a bummer!). i recommend the nigel bryant translation of perceval and william kibler translations for the rest. when you reach the end of the story of the grail and it cuts mid-sentence...well, sadly we don't know what happened to poor chrétien that kept him from completing his story. but there are four continuations written by other people, plus the german parzival is great as well (and has one of my favorite of gawain's wives, the haughty maiden of logres, orgeluse).

the mabinogion: some of the same stories as chrétien but of welsh origin plus extras. haters will try to pit two bad bitches against each other, but these texts go hand in hand. i like the whimsical vibes of this version and the magical powers given to the characters, such as kay's ability to grow to the size of a tree and set things on fire with his hands or bedwyr's ability to strike faster than all other knights despite having only one hand. it also gives owain (welsh version of yvain) an army of ravens that kill people in addition to his lion, arthur has an invisibility mantle (also referenced in the welsh triads), and the whole gang fights the demon boar twrch trwyth to steal the golden comb off his head. good stuff. i recommend the translation by lady charlotte guest.

the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle: obviously this has to be included. i'm biased but at the same time, it is supposed that sir thomas malory actually wrote this poem! which i think is pretty neat. additionally, 99% of retellings include ragnelle as gawain's wife. in fact, excluding the ones in which he doesn't have a partner at all, i can only think of one in which he marries someone else. dame ragnelle is the people's darling, all of us arthurian authors agreed that in spite of our differing opinions about everything else in the stories, she is the wife of all time. and we're right. a thing of beauty. this text does not have a translation, it's just in middle english, which can be challenging to read. this version edited by thomas hahn has footnotes to help or otherwise i recommend the version retold by selina hastings and illustrated by juan wijngaard, it's gorgeous, and includes all the fun supporting cast like kay and guinevere.

this was a long list with probably more explanation than necessary but it can be difficult to narrow down a single place to begin with arthuriana as each story builds on the literary tradition that came before. everyone is sharing and influencing one another so stories and motifs are repeated, each author writes for their time, slightly altering the technology and culture to reflect their own lived experience, so the narrative evolved as the centuries passed into what we have today. thanks for this ask and hope you enjoy reading!

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Bracket G, Week 1

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OKAY the brackets for week one are done and up. Bracket F caused me many, many issues but we're good now. Hopefully. I think a poll went up set to 1 day but I won't know until they're hot + I can fix it then.

Also if anyone has images for the following characters that they want to send in, I'd be incredibly grateful! (art you made/own, something from a fairly popular piece of fiction, or art from like a manuscript or something)

Sir Hector de Maris

Sir Sagramore

Sir Tor

Sir Galeschin

Sir Ywain the Bastard

Sir Lucan

Sir Morien

Sir Cador

Sir Elyan the White

Sir Calogrenant

Sir Feirefez

Sir Safir

Sir Escablor

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