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The Story of the Lady's Knight
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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.
  • Donโ€™t worry about writing a conclusion to every story line. If it doesnโ€™t happen, it wasnโ€™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 ๐Ÿ˜ญ).

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 ๐Ÿ˜ฌ.

#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 Tรผrlin)
  5. Arcade/Ettarde (Post-Vulgate/Le Morte dโ€™Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory)
  6. Beautรฉ (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. Florรฉe (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. Halaรฉs (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, รven)
  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. Tanrรฉe (2nd Perceval Continuation)
  41. Venelas (Le Mantel Mautailliรฉ)
  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 ๐Ÿ˜†.

I'd also like to add the lady Antikonie in Parzivรขl, who is caught in flagrante with Gawรขn by a knight who mobilises the entire court to besiege the tower Antikonie and Gawรขn are in, and Gawรขn 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 Provenรงal le Gaulois and it turns out Perceval le Gallois has been calling himself Provenรงal le Gaulois because he just can't get his own name right. I'd quite forgotten that this is actually medieval canon - well, not Provenรงal, but Percy not being quite sure of his own name ๐Ÿ˜‰.

#Perceval#chretien de troyes#Arthuriana#Provenรงal 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 ๐Ÿ˜„.

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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On making a Welsh version of the entire story of King Arthur:

  1. No Lancelot and No Affair. PERIOD. And absolutely no compromise or cheating on this one: you cannot turn anyone else (coughBediverecough) into a Lancelot analogue. You must sacrifice the Love Triangle completely - no "duty vs. love" drama. You're going to have make do without that conceit. You must exercise your own creativity and forge a different dramatic conflict for Arthur and Gwenhwyfar, if at all.
  2. Supplementary to the above: Divorce is legal.
  3. Arthur is at the forefront. Sometimes, Cai, Gwalchmai and Bedwyr is the focus of a particular adventure, but Arthur is a Man of Action, who often outdoes his own warriors. And in particular, he may not even be a King - he may even just be a military chief (Wleddig, Ameraudur or Dux Bellorum), freeing him up to rove around.
  4. Giants, not fairies, as the primary supernatural race Camelot interacts with. Next to that, Saints and Deities come afterwards.
  5. On the legal side: Celtic Law is Tort Law - a weregild system is at play, known as Saraad (Insult/Honor Price) and Galanas (Injury/Homicide Price). Livestock as a measure of wealth. Inheritance system is Gavelkind (although tribal politics may come into play. See Tanistry).
  6. Emphasis on Poetry, Song and Poetic Speech. Englyns are recommended. Bards as serious authority figures.
  7. Be liberal with the supernatural. Mystical items are always fought over and Knights have cyneddf, or mystical abilities.
  8. The Grail Quest has to be whole sale rewritten and given a new mythos: it's either "The Raid on the Otherworld" where the story is about the capture of a mystical Cauldron (Preiddu Annwfn). AND/OR. It's the Peredur version of Perceval, involving a Severed Head instead of a Grail - Maybe its Bran the Blessed himself! - and possibly a battle with the "Nine Sorceresses"
  9. Exceptions to the "No Affair" rule: Medraut and Melwas. The former requires commitment to Traitor!Guinevere and the latter ends with Arthur winning and taking back Guinevere, whether Melwas lives or not.
  10. The Fall of Camelot - There 3 options for how it should unfold without Lancelot: a) defaulting towards Historia Regum Britanniae's version of events. b) the Gwenhwyfach feud. And c) Non-Traitor Medraut ending. The first, similar to the No Affair exception, requires commitment to Traitor!Guinevere. The second involves establishing Gwenhwyfach as a character in her own right. The third and last is the most difficult: the writer must concieve a sufficiently satisfying third party as an opponent for Arthur and Mordred for a tragic last stand.
  11. No Incest. Medraut remains Arthur's Nephew.
  12. No Villain!Morgan
  13. Optional for the above: Iddog Cordd Prydain as an instigator for the hostilities between Arthur and Medraut
  14. As an extention of the "No Lancelot" rule, No Lady of the Lake and No Galahad either.
  15. Arthur assumes the throne through normal means - No Sword in the Stone or Sword from the Lake. Kings Lot and Urien are allies all they way. Excalibur/Caledfwlch is part of a set of Three Holy Weapons, the others being Rhongomyniad and Carnwennan.
  16. Exceptions to the "No Affair" rule: Edern ap Nudd as Guinevere's lover. Highly unrecommended, either for potentially establishing a Love triangle (defeating the whole purpose of removing Lancelot) and for potentially resulting in Arthur's early, non-Camlann death.
  17. Trystan and Essyllt potentially do not end in tragedy (Total omission of Brittany, Isolde White Hands and the Black Sails motif) (Writer's choice). Although Mark could still treacherously kill them both, ala Prose Tristan.
  18. King Mark as potentially Conomor the Cursed.
#I like this ๐Ÿ‘Œ#that said: couldn't do it ๐Ÿคฃ
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