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you seem like the right person to ask about jewish knights and judaism in general in arthurian legend

Hello! Apologies for how long it has taken me to respond to this! Throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period, there were a number of Arthurian texts written by and for Jewish people in Jewish languages. The one I specialize in is an Old Yiddish text called Vidvilt, which is part of the Fair Unknown tradition and based off an earlier German text called Wigalois. This text was super popular in the Yiddish-speaking world for about three centuries or so and was reworked and reprinted a number of times. I already discussed some of those adaptations a while ago in response to this ask.

Predating Vidvilt, there was a Hebrew Arthurian text written in the 13th century which is now commonly known as Melekh Artus. This was based on Old French sources and tells the story of Arthur's birth and Lancelot's affair with Guinevere before breaking off unfinished. The most common edition of the text used today is the one by Curt Leviant, though I just read a fascinating article in the latest issue of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society calling into question some of his transcription choices and the conclusions he draws in his analysis of the text.

I also recently read that a fragment of an Arthurian text in Judeo-Catalan was recently discovered, but I'm afraid I don't know much about it as yet other than that it's apparently a late medieval adaptation of Jaufre.

Chivalric romances of both Christian and Jewish origin were extremely popular among medieval and early modern Jews in general. There were a number of non-Arthurian knight stories that were very popular as well; for example, the most famous and influential work of early Yiddish literature was a chivalric epic called Bovo d'Antona, and a survey I read of the literature in Jewish households in early modern Italy shows that the most popular non-religious work among Jews at that time was Orlando Furioso.

It is worth noting that, even though some of these texts were written by and for Jews, that doesn't necessarily mean that the characters in them were Jewish. Jewish writers generally tended to modify their Christian source materials by gliding over or obscuring references to religion, rather than depicting Judaism directly (the reasons for this are complex and could constitute a whole paper, so I won't get into it here). That being said, medieval Jewish knights did exist in real life, too! There are a few medieval historians who do research into exactly when, where, and under what circumstances Jews were allowed to bear arms, but it definitely wasn't exclusively a literary thing.

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Holy noots.

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not watching severance and succession means i log on the day after an episode and everyone is like SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP THEYRE SO INSANE FOR THIS and the image cited is a man in a suit standing still in an otherwise blank, fluorescently-lit hallway. i'm happy for you guys or sorry that happened

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Arcanegifs' Arcane Season 2 (2024) Character Poll: Ekko ↳ “Sometimes taking a leap forward means... leaving a few things behind.”

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I am often sooo bad with doing those, I see them, think 'fun' and then forget, but now I managed... haha I cannot claim I actually look like that, but I used to always wear flowers in my hair xDD

Thank you for the tag :) <3 @toast-the-unknowing @philosophersandfools @riality-check @emmerrr

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I think they need sofa in their lab :P

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EVERYTHING LEAGUE VIKTOR Pre-Arcane for Fellow Machine Herald Enjoyers

Table of Screencaps and Saved Images

Champion Page

Lore Homepage Quote

Full Biography

Short Story: House on Emberflit Alley

House on Emberflit Alley Art

Splash Art

Concept Art

Skin Splash Arts

Viktor's Champion Page

Viktor's Lore Homepage Quote

For the full webpage, see my obsessive screenshots of Viktor's lore homepage

Viktor's Full Bio

Still can't believe he hit his bf over the head with a rock and that was enough to take him out

Viktor's Short Story: House on Emberflit Alley

(still up on the website, but I might as well consolidate everything here, and just in case it ever gets removed)

House on Emberflit Alley Art

(did some digging and afaik it seems to be fanart and not official art after all, but I'm not at all sure so take it with buckets of salt)

Viktor Splash Art

Viktor Concept Art

All Viktor Skins' Splash Arts

(in alphabetical order bc I don't know the release order for every skin)

Battlecast Creator

Death Sworn

Full Machine

High Noon

Prototype

PsyOps

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adult friendships are so dumb like yeah i think i can find a time to hang. how’s february 17th at 4pm

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not a single day goes by without me thinking about these parallels

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what are you even supposed to do when youre angry.  cant scream at anyone cos im not a dick. cant break anything cos i paid money for that. cant rip my hair out cos i need it on my head. literally what now

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If your husband actually signs the divorce papers you gave him you might just need to start an apocalypse about it…

Divorce Era Jayvik, my beloved, my dearest…

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https://youtu.be/HcA5S9DZnLg

moderately anticipated video rendition of whatever was going on in the notes of this post

(potential volume warning)

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I feel like, we as a society, don't talk enough about people messing up needle felting.

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Arcane | To Ashes And Blood ✨ part 2

Full video: https://youtu.be/sTzBSXcNy5s?si=g9N2yqFTBQ2oV8kC