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Writing Out of Doors / Dom-fharcai fidbaide fál

medieval Irish poem from the St Gall manuscript dated 904 AD

translation here by James Carney

#medieval lit #q #fave

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So many scholars have spent so much time trying to establish whether Arthur existed at all that they have lost track of the single truth that he exists over and over.

John Steinbeck (via lavncelot)

#john steinbeck #writing #fave #q #i love this quote <3

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Morgan le Fay and Sebile the enchantress, the best most almost slightly kind of canonical girlfriends from the Arthurian mythos!

#Them!! <3 #i love their poses & expressions...& sebile with the fire..<3<3 #morgan le fay #sebile #art #q

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“In [nineteenth and early twentieth-century] source studies the anticlericalism of the age was pronounced. Scholars perused the verse narratives for a glimpse of the pure, pagan, oral literature from which they sprang. Because it was assumed that the texts originally had a meaning within a purely Celtic or Germanic, pre-Christian past, any evidence of Christian influence or meaning was perceived a priori as something added later. Thus the thirteenth-century prose narratives are excluded because Chenerie considers the clerical hand to be so strong that it obfuscates the original nature of the genre. For more than forty years German and English scholarship has demonstrated the palpable illusion of this position. It is far better to accept the texts as they are, to recognize that the prose and verse romances must be interpreted according to what they include not according to a shape we would give them. It is not helpful to imagine that Guenevere’s bad reputation is the result of clerical suspicion in the later prose tradition. After all, where does the general impression of the entirely good queen exist? Is it in the ambivalent Chevalier de la Charrete or in the Historia regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth? If she is without reproach in Chretien’s allegedly early Erec et Enide, she is nonetheless poorly presented in Marie’s Lanval, a text of the same era. The upholding of Chretien de Troyes as the only great writer of the age and the artificial separation of works written between 1150 and 1200 from those written shortly after the turn of the century obscure the essential homogeneity and yet varied texture of the period.”

— Reviewed Work: “Le chevalier errant dans les romans arthuriens en vers des XIIe et XIIIe siècles” by Marie-Luce Chênerie, by Emanuel Mickel

#literary criticism #guinevere #q

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“Their fate: / fixed, fatal, / final. / Though we drank all night by candlelight / and the taste came sweet to the tongue / the bitterness left in our mouths / will stay long.”

— Y Gododdin, version by Desmond O'Grady

#that alliteration... #y gododdin #fave #q #medieval lit

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Lines from Y Gododdin's first stanza that have ruined me

He was a man in mind, in years a youth,

And gallant in the din of war;...

...It will not be my part

To speak of thee reproachfully,

A more choice act of mine will be

To celebrate thy praise in song;

Thou hast gone to a bloody bier,...

...Alas, Owain! my beloved friend;

It is not meet that he should be devoured by ravens! 

There is swelling sorrow in the plain,

Where fell in death the only son of Marro.

#i have this odd aching love for this incredibly old welsh bardic poetry there's just something about it that's so painful and raw #idk like i read aneirin or taliesin and i float right out of my body thinking about like people from centuries ago Going Through It #living through all this war and death and the sheer grief of these elegies is like. staggering in its proportions you can just feel it #and the way it's conveyed has such stark powerful imagery and in spite of everything the poetry *is* exquisitely beautiful to read #god i wish i knew welsh so i could read this stuff in a form closer to its original phrasing #god sorry to go off like this in the tags i'm just. ahsgldkh #y gododdin #aneirin #medieval lit #q

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I've been reading more Arthurian stories and one creature that stood out was the white doe with a golden collar - Leading knights to adventures.

I just had to draw it. I never drew deer before but I'm pleased of how it all turned out.

#!!! #art #q

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“So summer comes in season with its subtle airs, when the west wind sighs among shoots and seeds, and those plants which flower and flourish are a pleasure as their leaves let drip their drink of dew and they sparkle and glitter when glanced by sunlight.”

— Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. Simon Armitage

#this imagery is so gorgeous... #gawain and the green knight #medieval lit #q

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Artemio Rodríguez illustration for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

#gawain and the green knight #bercilak #green knight #q

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sir Gawain and the Green Knight for my Monthly monster drawing ♥ I think I am going to use this one as Christmas postcard :3

#WHOA!! #that green knight design is *killer* holy shit #green knight #bercilak #gawain #gawain and the green knight #art #q

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Everyone’s going on about having a ‘traditional, old-fashioned Christmas’, but when I burst into the house covered in green paint and demand a champion strike my head from my shoulders with my own axe so that I may return the blow next year, I’m ‘scaring Grandma’.

#gawain and the green knight #q

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Sometimes reading Arthuriana feels like reading Alice in Wonderland.

“Well,” said Alice, “these are a dreadfully strange assortment of objects!”

“They all symbolize different aspects of Our Lord’s martyrdom,” said the Fisher King, casting a line into his teacup.

“Indeed. I am sure everything symbolizes something else, for if everything was only itself I should be very confused. Might I ask what the point of the bleeding lance is?”

Alice regretted asking the question as soon as she had done so, for she saw the pun that would likely be made about the word point. Instead, however, the room erupted in applause and shouts of “The Grail! She has achieved the Grail!”

The next castle she visited, Alice resolved to herself as the inhabitants of this one danced for joy, would be more sensible.

#gawain and the green knight #Chretien de Troyes #q

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and yesterday on yesterday the year dies away, and winter returns, as is the way of the world through time.

from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. by Simon Armitage (via theclassicsreader)

#gawain and the green knight #medieval lit #q

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Lady Knight illustration I did for my portfolio.

#art #q

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Concept: a Knights of the Round Table style tabletop game, based on the older, pre-Malory traditions where the Knights are attributed all sorts of wondrous powers… except. Well.

You know the guys with, like, solar-powered super strength, or mastery of every mortal weapon, or a hand so deft it can strike six blows in the time it takes a man to draw breath?

Those guys are NPCs. They’re the “A” team.

You get to play as the “B” team: the knights with the really weird, goofy abilities that were probably included in the tales as a joke.

The guy with a beard so long it could be thrown over fifty rafters of King Arthur’s hall?

The guy whose feet become red hot and strike sparks from the stones of the Earth when he runs?

The guy whose “power” is that he has a very large knife?

Those are your player characters.

#this culhwch and olwen rep 😌✊ #The Mabinogion #q

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broke: picking one specific time period for an adaptation of arthurian legend that inevitably results in certain parts of the legend making no sense

woke: an adaptation where the characters regularly acknowledge that there is no set time period

#lancelot pioneers fauvism when he's painting on morgan's walls :') #fave #q