#Sir Gawaine

[morganaconda]

[gawaincomic]

Bookish Gawain.

I think Camelot would totally have a library - which explains the sheer number of books on that shelf.

It's rare that I'm happy with my watercolours, but I think I pulled this one off rather well. The background could have been darker, I guess - that's always a difficult thing for me. I made it muted, that's something.

[andalon-historian]

Day 8: Beast! The Northumbrian Dragon

Arthur, Lancelot, Gawaine, Morgan, and Guinevere encounter a monstrous beast on a visit to King Aethelfrith

Awesome

Done for @kulttuurinkurittama 's October Round Table art challenge

[sirgavvainet]

something something redering practice. Schools been killing me and now I’m sick <3 I’ll get back to doing pentiment requests in a couple weeks don’t worry I’ve just been drawing for myself atm bc of stress

[gymnopedie]

looks like we get some insight into the chivalric code here—sir gawaine does not help sir pelleas immediately (even at the lady’s urging, even with her scolding) and as a result loses her favor and presence; interested to see how sir gawaine reacts once he realizes that she has left him

[adhd-merlin]

I also need to tell you abt that passage abt Gawain and Lunette (the handmaiden of his cousins wife) bc the poet makes a pun on how Gawain is like the sun (bc of his solar powers and his great knightly reputation I guess) and lunette is the moon (lune=moon) and it’s adorableee I love it they have a one night stand and it’s no big deal and everyone is happy abt it 👍

thank you I love it 🥺

[dondalsy]

oh no…. i desire him carnally

[tiodolma]

Yknow. It's sad that malory weakened gawaine in his version. I dont understand the purpose of this but i dont think gawaine deserved this treatment.

[joemerl]

Huh. Weird that I happened to get to this part today.

Anyway, happy deathday, Gawain! Sorry your vendetta didn't work out, but at least you'll see your brothers again?

[pedanther]

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[gawaincomic]

I was wondering and you seemed like a likely candidate to know, do you know when red-headed Gawain first became a thing? It seems to have become the standard for his character, but I've never come across a description in the original sources that mentioned his coloring whatsoever. Did this start with T.H. White's depiction? Or *is* there an earlier description in a source I haven't read yet? (I'd also be curious if there are any og sources which give him a different hair color entirely!)

@luanna801 Thank you for the question! As you have guessed, this is something that really interests me, and I have looked into it in the past.

To be sure, I haven't read *all* the sources (I'm still reading) and some of my reading happened ages ago, so - maybe someone can correct me on this. But here is what I have found:

I can't recall a single medieval source that mentions Gawain's hair colour. Not one. I assume that the colour of a knight's hair was of no interest to medieval authors and readers, as long as he had a 'noble countenance'. This fact is striking to me because today, we often like to describe characters' appearances in great detail, but - nope, I personally haven't found any descriptions of his appearance except in the most general terms. (His clothes, yes!)

As far as I have been able to ascertain, red-haired Gawains are indeed descendants of T. H. White's Gawaine. I'm not sure I'd call the red hair 'standard', really, because I've found blond and brown and black-haired Gawains in post-White books, but it's clear that White has had a very powerful influence. Then again, his Gawaine is a striking character. It's also White who made Gawain Scottish and Gaelic. Medieval sources don't touch upon that at all (indeed, some say Lot is the king of Norway, so that would make Gawain Norwegian, but whether he's British or Norwegian, none of it seems to have any real impact on his character). Also, I've noticed that when people write a red-haired Gawain, they often give him character traits that also come from White.

For me personally, red-haired Gawain was a no-brainer because I really only picked up on him as a character in The Once and Future King as a twelve-year-old, and next I read Rosemary Sutcliff and Anthony Mockler, both of whom write Gawains who are clearly influenced by White. So that's the image that got fixed in my mind. But clearly, there are also a number of post-White Gawains around who are not particularly White-inspired.

Off the top of my head: Phyllis Ann Karr's Gawain in The Idylls of the Queen is blond, and Gillian Bradshaw's Gwalchmei in the Hawk of May trilogy is dark. Bernard Cornwell's little Gawain is blond too. In Het Zwevende Schaakbord, a 1918 Dutch novel by Louis Couperus, Gawain / Walewein has brown hair and brown eyes (OK, this is clearly pre-White but I'm putting it out here anyway). I've also found blond and brown-haired Gawains (and, indeed, a Black Gawain) in comics - and of course, there isn't a single red-haired Gawain on screen, a fact I deeply deplore 😅.

[andalon-historian]

Quick sketches of the Orkney bros at various stages of life. Not exactly what I'm looking for, but pretty close to what I think I'll go with for each of them (I'm sorry Gareth lmao)

Top to bottom Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth.

[ectalexi]

My contribution for @burning-stars98 ‘s fanfic “Once a King, Always a King” for the Sonic Big Bang event! Sonic meets some unexpected visitors at his doorstep from an adventure long past who come in need of help… I recommend you go check it out 🏃‍♂️

Read it here

[Forgot to mention also check out the artists who also made art for this fic! @pretzlforpresident @sensorii-scribbles ]

@sthbigbang

[sickfreaksirkay]

“average arthurian knight has 3 names" factoid actualy just statistical error. average knight has 1 name. names gawain, who lives in a castle & has over 10,000 names, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[gringolet]

sir gawain was but a beardless youth when he beheaded the green knight…. verily he shouldve been at the clubbe….

[noughticalcrossings]

Put thee not on Silent

[ID: A 4 panel comic made of digital paintings of a zoom meeting between the knights of the Round Table.

Sir Galahad, Queen Guinevere, Sir Gawain, Sir Lancelot, Sir Bedivere, have their own individual screens, and one screen shows a conference room with King Arthur, Sir Mordred, and others who are not named.

Both Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere have their cameras turned off, and microphones muted, the entire time.

Panel 1 shows King Arthur with a few of his knights, with Sir Mordred brooding beside him in shadows, and a hand reaching from offscreen to steal snacks from a bowl.

Sir Galahad has his microphone muted, and is in a forest, looking up and to the side. He has brown hair up above his head and very pale skin.

King Arthur asks, "Sir Gawain, canst thou see the PowerPoint slides?"

Panel 2 shows Sir Gawain, who has brown skin, black hair, green clothes, and heterochromia, with one green eye and one dark, replies, "Verily I cannot, I think it be a miasma of the sight."

Behind him for the background is a section from the Green Knight manuscript, showing faded lettering and a green knight on a green horse standing in front of someone with a large axe while a crowd of spectators watch from the sides.

Sir Galahad's screen is now slightly motion-blurred, showing a reddragon's open mouth in front of Sir Galahad's face.

Panel 3 shows Sir Bedivere, labeled Tech Support, who wears a blue shirt and a plumed knight's helm, looking exhaustedly into the camera, pushing his helmet visor up with one hand. He is lit by blue light and has bags under his eyes, asking: "Hast thou sharest the screen?"

His background is of a library. Sir Galahad's screen is now taken up by the motion-blurred side of the dragon that is attacking him.

Panel 4 shows Sir Gawain turned slightly to the side, looking derisively at the camera, saying: "Yea, but I cannot hear Sir Galahad."

The only thing left in Sir Galahad's screen is the motion-blurred, spade shaped tail tip of the dragon chasing him.

End ID.]

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