#arthurian literature

[we-are-knight]

Parzival is a high medieval story, featuring king Arthur and the holy grail. It was written in Germany close to the year 1200. At that time knights were fighting in mail armour which they refer to as harness in the epos - not hauberk. Here is what was found:

1. Knights have rust and dust on them after wearing mail armor. It also stains their undergarments.

2. Knights always have assistance for putting on armour. Yet when abandoned and all alone Parzival is able to put on his harness by him self.

3. The harness has laces and they get frequently checked for wear and tear.

4. The harness has a mail hood that can be opened without taking the armour off.

5. People appreciate shiny mail armour.

And the following is the passage in which the protagonist sees mail armour for the first time. He is a little boy and in his nativity he sees some knights and thinks they are gods:

(English adaptation)

Loud they laughed as the boy spake further, 'Good knight, what may these be?

These rings that so close around thee, above and below I see.'

Then he handled, with curious finger, the armour the knight did bear,

His coat of mail close-linkèd as behovèd a knight to wear;

And he spake as he looked on the harness, 'My mother's maidens string

On their chains, and around their fingers, full many a shining ring,

But they cling not so close to each other as these rings that here I see,

I cannot force them asunder, what good are they then to thee?'

(original:)

aber sprach der knappe sân,

dâ von ein lachen wart getân.

«ay ritter guot, waz mahtu sîn?

du hâst sus manec vingerlîn

an dînen lîp gebunden,

dort oben unt hie unden.»

aldâ begreif des knappen hant

swaz er îsers ame fürsten vant:

dez harnasch begunder schouwen.

«mîner muoter juncfrouwen

ir vingerlîn an snüeren tragnt,

diu niht sus an einander ragnt.»

der knappe sprach durch sînen muot

zem fürsten «war zuo ist diz guot,

daz dich sô wol kan schicken?

ine mages niht ab gezwicken.»

#knight #chivalry #chainmail #maille #cavalier #knights #arthurian literature #arthurian legend #Parzival #wolfram von eschenbach #armour #history #fashion in steel

[queer-ragnelle]

Gareth 🧸🔪 for the ask game if u want=)

🧸Headcanon about childhood

I think Gareth is actually a runaway. He didn’t tell his mother where he was going, he just left. But the journey from Kirkwall to Camelot gives a kid a lot of time to think and Gareth started to make up unfortunate potential outcomes in his head. He went into the kitchens not to try and one-up the competition, but to avoid his brothers seeing him and reporting back to their mother. He’s out of touch and didn’t know how they would react, so his anxiety made a mountain out of a molehill. Beaumains time it is.

🔪Headcanon relating to fighting/violence

While Gareth could technically be considered a protege of Lancelot, he tends to overthink the situation, and initially struggles to reach his full potential as a fighter for this reason. He can’t turn his brain off and get in the zone as easily as Lancelot or Gawain. But when he does, he can’t lose.

#arthurian legend #arthurian legends #arthurian mythology #arthuriana #arthurian literature #sir gareth #gareth #beaumains #ask #invaders-forever #ask game

[gringolet]

sir gawain was but a beardless youth when he beheaded the green knight…. verily he shouldve been at the clubbe….

#arthuriana #arthurian literature #gawain and the green knight #sir gawain

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Guinevere's wedding dress and chainmail veil in Excalibur 1981

#guinevere #excalibur 1981 #excalibur #per #perioddramaedit #period drama #periodcostume #wedding dress #wedding veil #fantasy movies #fantasy #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature #arthur pendragon #arthurian legend #the movie is strange #but the wedding scene is a dream #so otherworldly #and the veil is really something else

[lepetitdragonvert]

Early Poems of William Morris

1914

Artist : Florence Harrison

#early poems #william morris #1914 #florence harrison #pre raphaelism #pre raphaelite #arthurian mythology #arthurian legend #arthurian literature #arthurian lore

[sickfreaksirkay]

if i had my way the round table would look like this. and charlie brown would be knighted

#would you guys pay for a go fund me so i can build a time machine and replace the round table with this. please #knights #knights of the round table #king arthur #arthuriana #charlie brown #snoopy #arthurian literature #arthurian legend #round table #peanuts

[kulttuurinkurittama]

Kei is one of my favourite knights and I want to draw him more, but good lord is it hard to nail the "I'm surrounded by idiots" aura I like to portray him running around the kitchens with. Also bro like 20 in this and Is already getting grey hairs, dealing with everyone's shit while trying to keep the castle running is stressful.

#arthuriana #arthurian legend #sir kay #arthurian literature #digital art #digital drawing #artist #art #dionysus draws #sir kei

[mask131]

The missing Arthurian knight - rediscovered in 2019

Well the title is a slight lie - the missing knight wasn't rediscovered in 2019, it was earlier than that, but he didn't became public until 2019.

So what's this "missing knight" about? Well as the title says. There was a knight part of the Arthurian myth, and he had been missing ever since the Middle-Ages, and he was only recently rediscovered.

Or rather, to be exact - there was an Arthurian novel centered around a knight that existed and was a famous and well-known part of the Arthurian literature in the Middle-Ages, but that completely disappeared, and was forgotten by culture (as much popular culture as the scholarly one). Until very recently.

This rediscovered novel has been a hot topic of all Arthuriana fans in Europe for a few years now - and yet I do not see much talk about this onto this website, despite Tumblr being a big place for Arthurian fans?

So I will correct this by doing a series of posts about the subject. And this post will be the first one, the introduction post presenting to you "Ségurant, le chevalier au dragon" ; "Segurant, the knight of the dragon". A French medieval novel part of the Arthurian literature (hence the "chevalier au X" title structure - like Lancelot, the knight of the cart or Yvain the knight of the lion from Chrétien de Troyes), the reason this story was forgotten by all medievalist and literary scholars is - long story short - because it never existed in any full manuscript (at least none that survived to this day). It was a complete story yes, with even variations apparently, but that was cut into pieces and fragments inserted into various other manuscripts and texts (most notably various "Merlin's Prophecies").

The novel and the Knight of the Dragon were rediscovered through the work of Emanuele Arioli, who rediscovered a fragment of the story while looking at an old manuscript of a Merlin Prophecies, and then went on the hunt for the other fragments and pieces scattered around Europe, until he finally could compile the full story, that he then published in 2019, at the Belles Lettres publishing house, in 2019.

Arioli reconstructed the text, and translated it in both modern French and Italian for scholarly and professional editions (aka Honoré Champion in France, a reference for universities)...

... But also for a more "all public, found in all libraries" edition - the famous 2019 edition at Les Belles Lettres.

And not only that, but he also participated to both a comic book adaptation with Emiliano Tanzillo...

... and an adaptation as an illustrated children novel!

Finally, just a few weeks, the Franco-German channel Arte released a documentary about the reconstitution and content of this missing novel called "Le Chevalier au dragon: Le roman disparu de la Table Ronde". (The Knight of the Dragon - The missing novel of the Round Table). The full documentary is on Youtube in French for those that speak the language, here. And in German here for those who speak German.

Unfortunately there is no English version of the documentary that I know of, nor any English publications of the actual text - just French and Italian. But hey, I'll try to palliate to that by doing some English-speaking posts about this whole business!

#ségurant #segurant #the knight of the dragon #le chevalier au dragon #arthuriana #arthurian myth #arthurian literature #arthurian novel #discoveries #medieval literature #arthurian legend #arthurian knights #found media #lost media #that people didn't even know was lost

[aoiveaeart]

| 🦋 | For the first time the future is bright | 🦋 |

Artwork for the last chapter of ‘For the Love of a Princess’ now complete on AO3 (x)

#catradora #my art #fanart #shera #illustration #for the love of a princess #ftloap #camelot au #Camelot #arthurian literature #au #very gay #my first child #adora #adora pendragon #Catra #cyra #catradora child #finn #halfmoon

[wolf-tail]

Get that damn twink wizard outta my face where are my knights

#arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature #arthurian knights #arthurian memes

[cain--abel]

Why marry Arthur Pendragon?

💍Gender selectable! (Marry Elaine Pendragon instead!)

🥲 Make your father proud!

💰 Get rich-quick-scheme!

🫅 Marry a fellow royal worthy of you!

🏰 Gain a barony!

🛏️ Optional affair!

💘 True love?

#choicescript #hosted games #arthurian #interactive fiction #arthurian literature #if game #arthurian legend #arthurian mythology #arthurian fantasy #dashingdon #arthur pendragon #arthurian romance #king arthur

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (British, 1872-1945) • But Mordred Laid His Ear beside the Door and There Half Heard • The Coming of Arthur • Watercolour with bodycolour on board

#illustration #art #eleanor fortescuee brickdale #british artist #illustrator #book illustration #watercolor #victorian era artwork #sassafras and moonshine #art blog #arthurian #arthurian literature

[queer-ragnelle]

Mordred

#arthurian legend #arthurian legends #arthuriana #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature #mordred #sir mordred #my post

[gringolet]

what if you lived in a society with strict and sometimes absurd rules regulating what behavior was honorable . and your perfect older brother was so good at it the best at it even but you just didnt get it because the rules dont make sense and theyre stupid and its not fair that he can play the game so well and you cant. and everyone hates you and calls you a piece of shit because you arent good at following the Rules like your brother and his stupid piece of shit boyfriend. and then you find out that the boyfriend is Breaking The Rules really seriously and you tell your brother and hes like shut up about it, just let him break the rules and get away with it. but your younger brother agrees that its fucked up and you should expose him so you do and everyone forever is like youre evil for this and everyone that died as a result is because of you. and you deserved to be killed by this guy for showing that he broke the rules. this happened to my buddy agravaine

#agravaine #arthuriana #arthurian literature

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Morgan Pendragons burgundy dress in Camelot

#morgan pendragon #eva green #perioddramaedit #period drama #periodcostume #morgan le fay #morgana pendragon #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature #arthurian retelling #camelot #last one of camelot #my favorite dress of her #it looks heavy yet ellegant #and i love the color

[lepetitdragonvert]

Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson

by Hodder & Stoughton

London

1911

Artist : Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale

#idylls of the king #alfred tennyson #alfred lord tennyson #lord alfred tennyson #eleanor fortescue brickdale #1911 #children's literature #vintage illustration #children's books #children's book #old illustration #old book #arthurian literature #arthurian mythology #arthurian legend #arthurian lore