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happy mothers day also to morgana and morgause the milves of my heart

#and the lady of the lake ofc #meme #morgan le fay #morgause

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Gawain: How do we usually get out of these messes?

Lancelot: We don’t, we just create a bigger mess and it cancels the first one out.

#incorrect quotes #gawaine #lancelot

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"A team of researchers has published a full English translation of an 800-year-old passage from the story of King Arthur. They also analyzed the handwriting and linguistic style of the manuscript, nicknamed the “Bristol Merlin,” to glean information on its origin and history, using an imaging technique called Raman spectroscopy to better make out faded parts of the text.

Tucked away in the bindings of four books from the turn of the 15th century, the Bristol Merlin is made up of seven parchment fragments that comprise a passage from the Arthur legend. Dated to between 1250 and 1275, the manuscript was likely penned in northern France, the researchers said, based on the writing style and its language (Old French). Though about an English king, the Arthur myth was told and retold in different ways throughout France. The manuscript is not the first document to contain its particular story, which is called the Suite Vulgate du Merlin. Researchers believe the text was initially written around 1225, which means the Bristol Merlin was a fairly contemporary retelling of the story."

#texts #HEY professor who compared arthurian legends to the mcu look at me. #bitch.

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Arthur: Was I a bad father, Mark?

Mordred: My name is Mordred

#incorrect quotes #arthur #mordred

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Morgause: I need a human skull, but you have to promise to not ask any questions.

Morgana: I see. I can help, only if you don´t ask any questions either. (Pulls out six skulls)

Morgause:

Morgana:

Morgause: This one is fine.

#incorrect quotes #morgan le fay #morgause

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#arthur #meme

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You don’t have to break my heart like that, Oxford University landing page.

[Image headline: Everyone has heard of King Arthur, but 90% of medieval manuscripts of chivalric and heroic tales have been lost.]

#texts #thanks! i hate it

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Lancelot: I don’t think we can mansplain, manipulate or malewife our way out of it this time.

Gawain: *cracks his knuckles*

Gawain: Manslaughter it is.

#incorrect quotes #lancelot #gawaine

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this entire time bertilak is so so so charmed by gawain especially since [1] gawain fulfilled his promise and went out TO search for the green knight after gawain tried to weasel his way out of it [2] that gawain gives bertilak all what he has “won” (lady bertilak’s kisses) [3] and how bertilak is genuinely overjoyed at seeing gawain come across his castle in the first place. and for bertilak to realize that gawain deceived him by not returning to him his wife’s sash, thus meaning that gawain is dishonorable and a liar — we know that gawain himself views it all as a failure, that he IS dishonorable, that even though bertilak in the end says that he is unlike any knight and more honorable than any, gawain views himself and fact that everyone wears a green sash in camelot afterwards as a reminder for his omissions and sins and yet……………..for bertilak, gawain was redeemed in this moment. for bertilak, even though gawain lied and didn’t present lady bertilak’s sash, gawain turned up to the church, gawain turned up to get his head chopped off, gawain returned for the answering stroke regardless, and now. now, bertilak trusts him once more.

#gawaine #sir gawain and the green knight

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the cyclical nature of the green knight, green and rot and decay breeds life breeds death welcomes life welcomes the end welcomes rebirth, the fact that lady bertilak’s books are opened to heliocentricism — the model that the earth and planets revolve around the sun. gawain dreams of the various paths he could take, all paths that eventually lead to the green chapel and the green knight’s blade — gawain in medieval literature is tied to the sun and its symbolism. gawain as both the blinding light that reveals truths but is also the reason for dark shadows forming with lies and half-truths bubbling behind it, gawain realizing that he’s always been walking down this road the green chapel and even now, there he is, walking to his death, and maybe this time around, in this cycle, he won’t flinch, he’ll be constant like the sun.

#gawaine #the green knight (2021)

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i think the modernization of gawain’s characterization from ‘pious catholic never has sex before marriage’ into ‘hedonistic bisexual’ is genius also what the gawainpoet would want. go argue with the wall.

#this one's allowed actually i just don't like the way they punished him for it in the narrative #< my tags from last august #the green knight (2021)

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Lancelot, a teenager with no training or experience, showing up at Camelot:

#also peredur in the mabinogion #lancelot

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babe the enchanted waist band stays on during sex

#the green knight (2021)

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“Whether fate be foul or fair, why falter I or fear?”

#the green knight (2021)

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Watch "Excalibur!" on YouTube

#excalibur #yes...YES

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Morgana: I learned some very valuable lessons from this.

Arthur: I’m guessing they are all horrible distortions on the lessons you actually should’ve taken away.

Morgana: Death isn’t real and I’m basically God.

#incorrect quotes #arthur #morgan le fay

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this link should work for it! it's sideways because idk how to save it rotated but it should work

Question for the Arthurian scholars: which one of you sexy people do I need to bribe to get a scan of the english translation of Kairo-kō from Barber's Arthurian Literature II floating around the internet instead of needing to buy a huge expensive book just for my obsession over a ~20 page story?

ooh i dont have it but if anyone does!! please. tagging it so people will see

#kairo-kō: a dirge #natsume sōseki #i had a professor scan it for a class in college and still had the pdf