#arthurian

[cesarescabinet]

We share the same headcanon, actually! I always placed SGATGK earlier in Gawain's adventures.

unoriginal thought: it is actually really funny that probably the most well known gawain-centric story is sir gawain and the green knight. like it's an amazing bit of poetry, but that gawain is not the gawain you see literally anywhere else. your typical gawain probably wouldn't lose any sleep over going to the green chapel and he certainly wouldn't have any qualms about sleeping with a married woman. I just can't imagine what the whiplash would have been like if sgatgk was my first gawain story and then I went on to find out that he is actually Like That

[gingersnaptaff]

POLL TIME: Quarter Final 1 😈😈

A recap of each:

Myrddin - OG Merlin, he's not actually associated with Arthuriana - and the Welsh myth stuff - until much later. He's one of those who was an irl lad but got incorporated into the mythos at a later date. He was a bard gifted with the power of prophecy (as all bards were thought to be in Celtic society) and was said to have gone mad after the Battle of Arfderydd in which his king and bestie Gwenddoleu died and then he fled into the woods. This gave him the epithet 'Wyllt' or Wild cuz obviously if ur living in the woods then u ain't gonna exactly be living ur best life.

Olwen - She of the white track. MY WIFE. The woman who Culhwch does nothing for on his quest but still gets. She's the daughter of the giant Ysbaddadden Pencawr and little white trefoils sprout wherever she walks. She's great.

Culhwch - cousin/nephew to Arthur (I always get confused. He's the one who causes Glewlwyd no amount of pain after he arrives at Arthur's court after the knife is in the meat and the mead has been poured. Why? FOR A QUEST! He wants to marry Olwen, the daughter of Ysbaddaden Pencawr and needs his cousin's help to do it. He doesn't do much on his quest but he gets points for participation, I guess? Long story short he does marry Olwen though which is nice. Bet she was thrilled.

Peredur: the big lad shall we say, the one you're all the most likeliest to know. The undertaker of the Grail Quest before Galahad, thinks knights are angels, besties with Owain and Gwalchmai, @nekomaidmordred 's fave lad.

[illustratus]

La Belle Dame sans Merci by Paul Julien Meylan

[mortiscausa]

Whether fate be foul or fair, Why falter I or fear? What should man do but dare?

march to camelot #1: quest

[eirene]

The Temptation of Sir Percival, 1894

Arthur Hacker

[rosieandthemoon]

fading into fantasy

[dulla-nyan]

Illustrations done for High Noon Over Camelot, my favorite of the mechanisms albums <3

I didn't realize the hubris of combining all the different elements in the album visually until I was halfway through the process but it was worth it in the end ^-^'

[escespace]

Gwaine: Man, I'm fed up with these two, we have to do something.

Elyan: What are you talking about?

Gwaine: Arthur and Merlin and their stupid desperate flirting

Elyan: What? Flirting?

Gwaine: Are you blind?!!! Of course they flirt. If not, what would you call that?

Gwaine: *turns elyan's face to where Merlin and Arthur are being separated by Lance and Leon while they yell at each other*

Elyan: Social incompetence?

[fuckyeaharthuriana]

Arthur's different genealogies from the book "Heroes of the Round Table" by Mike Dixon-Kennedy.

[invisible-goats]

Just to say Ynys Môn, my book about Arthurian/Mabinogi characters reincarnated on modern-day Anglesey by an immortal Myrddin as a bunch of somewhat aimless 18 year olds, is now available a bunch of non-Amazon places! Thanks Draft2Digital! (It's also still available as a physical book on Amazon, though the price has changed because otherwise there would be basically no royalties). Publishing through them also means you can request your local bookshop or library stock it

For those who are interested in that sort of thing, the main trio are all some flavour of queer (bi, nonbinary, aro)

[greaterpaladin]

"Castle of Maidens" (AKA “Galahad at the Castle of Maidens”) by Edwin Austin Abbey (c. 1890)

[demoniacal-art]

sir gawain and gringolet!

[perplexingly]

I barely remember any of the Vulgate cycle so I checked some chapters about Galehaut and by god I forgot that it was written Like That

Galehaut, trying to convince Lancelot (in disguise) to stay with him Forever, soon after meeting him:

Lancelot promised he'd stay only if Galehaut (who at the time was battling Arthur, and was very much victorious) withdrew his army, to which Galehaut's entire attitude was like: "this pains me not at all, since it is your wish". Lancelot's reaction to this:

Galehaut planning to keep Lancelot aaaall to himself:

Galehaut answering to the question what would he do to keep Lancelot's company forever:

Galehaut's grieving out of love for Lancelot:

Lancelot and Galehaut so worried about each other they're afraid to do anything not to hurt the other (and in the second screenshot both of them almost die because they're so worried)

Lancelot and Galehaut's Romeo and Juliet-like ending:

[illustratus]

Awaiting his return by William Henry Margetson

[mordred-galahad]

a work in progress