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The Story of the Lady's Knight
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Gwalchy/Geraint comparison

Shwmae! Back on my bullshit once again!! Gonna be talking about Gwalchmai, and Geraint, while also comparing them, cuz it's fun and I read an essay that made me freak out.

#arthuriana#geraint#Enide#erec and enide#three welsh romances#the mabinogion#welsh mythology#y mabinogi#geraint ac enid#geraint ap erbin#arthurian legend#gwalchmai ap gwyar#sir gawain#arthurian literature#enid ferch ynwyl#queen guinevere#gwenhwyfar ferch ogrfan fawr#king arthur#mabinogion#geraint and enid
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Thomas Mallory's Top Writing Tips

  • Less is better. Just give a quick summary with an "As the French book maketh mention", and leave it at that.
  • Don’t worry about writing a conclusion to every story line. If it doesn’t happen, it wasn’t meant to be.
  • Remember to only sometimes follow up on a thing you mentioned 500 pages ago. Keep the reader on their toes.
  • Make sure you list every single person taking part in a battle, lest the reader grow concerned that your depiction of the fight isn't specific enough.
  • And if you forget what you named a character? Just come up with a new name! The reader will figure it out.
  • Alternatively, give them the same name as the last relative of theirs that you mentioned! That'll really clear things up.
  • Think you added enough hermits in your story? Wrong. Add more hermits.
  • Worshipe is your friend.
  • And above all, have fun! Remember, readers love when you have major character deaths happen off-screen, so don't feel pressured to write things you don't want to!
  • P.S. pls pray for the goode deliveraunce of my soul I'm in prison thx
#arthuriana#le morte d'arthur#thomas malory#truth
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Last of the #kriksiswoodlandart drawings! This is pretty complex for me, so I took ages working on it on and off (clearly more off than on, which is what I do when I find a drawing difficult 😭).

Anyway: this is Gawain and Kundry (or Orgeluse, or l'Orgueilleuse de Logres), a couple for whom the sailing is definitely not smooth, but who find each other in the end.

Gawain is my favourite and I love him dearly, but I actually love Kundry/Orgeluse/Orgueilleuse for being very rude to him and calling him out on Knightly Stuff. She's Luned/Linnet/Lynette levels of rude and mean, and I just enjoy that in a medieval female character 😬.

#gawain comic#arthuriana#sir gawain#gawain#arthurian legend#sir gawaine#orgeluse#kundry#l'Orgueilleuse de Logres#ancient woodland challenge
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Anonymous asked:

is there a list of all the women gawain had been with?

queer-ragnelle answered:
  1. Aislyn (see Ragnelle)
  2. Aleta (Prince Valiant (1954))
  3. Amie (Beaudous by Robert de Blois)
  4. Amurfina (The Crown by Heinrich von dem Türlin)
  5. Arcade/Ettarde (Post-Vulgate/Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory)
  6. Beauté (Gilglois)
  7. Bertilak, Lady (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger)
  8. Blanchadine (Floriant et Florete)
  9. Blanchemal the Fay (Le Bel Inconnu)
  10. Bloiesine (4th Perceval Continuation)
  11. Carlisle, Daughter of (The Carle of Carlisle)
  12. Carlisle, Lady (The Carle of Carlisle)
  13. Elaine of Astolat (The Legend of King Arthur (1979))
  14. Elidan (Hawk of May by Gillian Bradshaw)
  15. Emma (see Ragnelle)
  16. Enid the Faultless (Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven)
  17. Essel (The Green Knight (2021))
  18. Florée (Le Livre d'Artus)
  19. Florie of Syria (Wigalois by Wirnt von Grafenberg)
  20. Gay Maiden (Pulzella Gaia)
  21. Guilorete of Lis (1st Perceval Continuation, Perceval (1978))
  22. Gwendolen (The Masque of Gwendolen by Reginald Heber)
  23. Halaés (Le Livre d'Artus)
  24. Helient of North Wales (Vulgate)
  25. Ilene (Prince Valiant (1954))
  26. Lady of the Lake (Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger)
  27. Linet (Gawain and the Green Knight (1973), Sword of the Valiant (1984))
  28. Lorie of Roche Florie (The Marvels of Rigomer)
  29. Luned/Lunette (The Lady of the Well, Yvain, Ywain, Iwein, Íven)
  30. Marjorie (Gawain and Marjorie)
  31. Morgana (Excalibur (1981))
  32. Olwen (Arthur the Bear of Britain by Edward Frankland)
  33. Orgeluse the Haughty (Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach)
  34. Ragnelle (Loathly Lady Master Post)
  35. Raquel (see Ragnelle)
  36. Risa (see Ragnelle)
  37. Risa (Guinevere by Sharan Newman)
  38. Rosalie (The Mantel)
  39. Schartine of China (Gabein)
  40. Tanrée (2nd Perceval Continuation)
  41. Venelas (Le Mantel Mautaillié)
  42. Ydain (The Lancelot Compilation)
  43. Ysabele (Roman Van Walewein)

Sources supplemented by The Arthurian Name Dictionary by Christopher W. Bruce, The Arthurian Handbook by Norris J. Lacy and Geoffrey Ashe, and my own knowledge. If there's a lady I missed, don't hesitate to say so, and I'll add her!

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NOT CRITICISING this great (and important!) job, but since several of these ladies are the same lady, the list is shorter than it actually looks, and I feel there are probably a lot of nameless ladies missing from it 😆.

I'd also like to add the lady Antikonie in Parzivâl, who is caught in flagrante with Gawân by a knight who mobilises the entire court to besiege the tower Antikonie and Gawân are in, and Gawân has to defend himself with a chessboard for a shield.

#the ladies' knight#arthuriana#arthurian legend#sir gawaine#sir gawain#walewein
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Honestly I just find it really funny that Perceval doesn't know his own name until we're 3600 lines into the poem, and even then he just kind of hopes he's right

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Yeeees there is this joke in Kaamelott where Arthur has heard of this new knight called Provençal le Gaulois and it turns out Perceval le Gallois has been calling himself Provençal le Gaulois because he just can't get his own name right. I'd quite forgotten that this is actually medieval canon - well, not Provençal, but Percy not being quite sure of his own name 😉.

#Perceval#chretien de troyes#Arthuriana#Provençal le Gaulois#kaamelott
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'Common inkcap' for Kriksis' Ancient Woodland Challenge. Quick research taught me that you can make an actual ink out of inkcaps - a very foul-smelling ink, apparently 😄.

Here is Morgana picking mushrooms. I made her an abbess in my comic, based on a book I was gifted at the age of around 10 that had a throwaway line saying something like, "Morgana had a reputation for being a witch, but in fact she was a virtuous abbess". Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Witchy Morgana and Seductive Morgana and most Morganas really, but despite the 'canon' of Morgana being educated in a convent, Abbess Morgana is so out of left field that it stuck with me and I decided to go with that. She's still a witch, but she's also a virtuous abbess :p and her convent is in the Valley of No Return.

#gawain comic#arthuriana#morgan le fay#morgana#ancient woodland challenge#colour pencils#sketchbook#arthurian legend
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'River' for Kriksis' Ancient Woodland Challenge.

I'm waaayyyy behind and really struggling now (... Certain Events killed my arty streak), but I do want to complete the challenge. In fact, I've already completed drawing #12 and am currently working on #11. There are two left after that. Technically, the last drawing should be posted tomorrow, but the best I can aim for is to try and post the remaining pictures by the 28th.

#gawain#Ceincaled#gringolet#sir gawaine#sir gawain#arthuriana#kriksis woodland challenge#ancient woodland
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