#Lou's Arthurian Ramblings

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Here come Welsh Triad titles confusing me like: what does this mean?

Is it freckles? Is it a metaphor I'm missing? I don't know--I haven't found anything about it on my research!

Meanwhile, I guess I'm supposed to take this as it's meant to be taken (for lack of a better term)?

If anybody knows more, I'd be very thankful!

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Alternate Gawain ending: He becomes a saint!?

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Love how untangling family trees in Arthuriana results in going down a rabbit hole that involves finding whole family branches consisting of siblings, niblings, and other assorted aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Fun fact Lancelot has a sister whose kids are cousins to King Arthur in at least one version of the story.

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Just learned that there's a Gawain story out there that includes him getting a snake gf who raises a fairy army to rescue him from execution, and who's also the daughter of Morgan Le Fay (not sure if she's related to Arthur in this version).

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Will say though I’m an ardent King Arthur defender in as much as that he’s a perfect example of someone who’s corrupted by a culture of violence. Sweet kid who just wants to help his older brother succumbs to violent paranoia and sees the world around him dissolve at his fingertips. The more he tries to fight, the more his fate is sealed. Quality tragedy right there, even if that’s not what the medieval authors originally intended most likely.

Somewhere within the Idylls-to-Vulgate gradient lies the perfect characterization of Arthur, personally.

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Feel like Welsh!Arthur and Dinadan would get along swimmingly. Like, imagine the two wandering the countryside and making diss-tracks for the kings and knights they dislike--imagine the comedic potential.

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Yeah no I'm perfectly normal about this (complete lie)

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Think I might be developing a fondness for tracking down Arthuriana (however vague) in music in otherwise tangentially related genres. Maybe I'll compile a pop culture playlist, who knows. If y'all have any suggestions, be sure to let me know!

On the flip side, here's Lancelot's Italo-Disco theme (which slaps):

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More Arthuriana retellings need to include the time that Arthur and his bros tried and failed to steal a pig from Tristan, thus labeling him one of the Three Powerful Swineherds of Prydain (I love the triads sometimes)

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New lore dropped.

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Been noticing a trend in Scottish and Irish Arthuriana where Arthur and/or Guinevere's kids go out into the world (because of Merlin of course) only to commit so much havoc they leave a high body count in the process.

Gawain would be so proud.

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Arthur's knights immediately upon finding guns:

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Apparently Arthur manages to nab himself a copy of Historia Regum Britanniae in one version of the story, meaning that even the Middle Ages had some form of meta.

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Found another Lancelot fangirl, everybody.

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Just discovered that Oberon and Puck make an appearance in some Arthuriana which is pretty neat, and a bit of a cross-over with A Midsummer Night's Dream (even if in here they might be father and son, considering Robin Goodfellow is labeled as Oberon's kid)

Varying sources include the idea that Oberon is the son of Julius Caesar, related to Morgan Le Fay (either his mother or brother depending), was originally a dwarf transformed by fairies, and threatened to turn King Arthur into a werewolf because Arthur wanted his kingdom.

Brb headcanoning Lancelot's foster mother is actually Titania under a pseudonym.

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Loving the fact that Tristan gifted Isolde a miniature leopard-dog that makes everybody happy with a magical bell...gonna give Tristan a W for that one.