#erec and enide

[gawrkin]

(From Erec and Enide by Chretien de Troyes)

King Arthur: I want to do the White Stag Hunt! Our Lord Gawain: That's terrible idea King Arthur: Blah blah blah, I'm not listening! Our Lord Gawain: sigh...

[dullyn]

the entire beginning of Erec and Enide being that King Arthur wants to kill a special stag (and will also have to kiss the most beautiful maiden) is so funny because it devolves so heavily from that.

the story does stick to the the common set up of most arthurian romances in that Knight X goes on a quest and somehow ends up on three sub-quests as well, running into Knights Y and Z somewhere along the way (then there’s always like minimum two maidens involved). it’s just amusing that such an adventure started with Arthur wanting to go on a hunt.

the common set up does make me happy though because i just think it’s neat that such a repeated narrative can yield so many different stories that are all so entertaining, along with being adapted so many times that there are then even more stories. plus it itches my brain in a nice way because the stories are like Ol’ Reliable.

also shoutout to Yder, son of Nut.

[faggotryandtransjesterism]

whenever erec wakes up on his funeral bier and kills the count and everyone starts running and screaming about the corpse i picture it like a scooby doo chase scene. wibbldey wobbldey hijinks music and people running one direction and then immediately going the opposite way and erec is just like hey has anyone seen my horse-

[rjalker]

"Am I the asshole for inviting my husband to my sister's wedding?" (yes)

"Am I the asshole for telling my husband his friends think he's a coward?" (no)

[howaboutswords]

"His old father, snowy

Haired, had left this life

Behind. Erec was deeply

Saddened, but had to hide

His sorrow, for a king's pain

Is indecent, if public: it needs

To be kept from ordinary men."

- Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes (translated by Burton Raffel)

[arthurianashipbracket]

arthur by charles ernest butler and lancelot and galehaut (ft. the lady of logres) from the lancelot en prose, erec et enide cover from the lettres gothiques edition (edited)

[ID 1: an old-fashioned drawing of two men and woman wearing fur robes. It is edited so that an oil painting of a man wearing armour and about to place a crown on his head is in the centre. /end ID 1 ID 2: a picture of a cream book reading Erec et Enid by Chretien de Troyes. The word Erec is crossed out and Mabon written beside it. /end ID 2]

[queer-ragnelle]

If anything, Arthurian Legend could do with more adultery. When does Enid get to cheat on Geraint?

[pendraegon]

have been feeling so miserable btw that ive picked up on reading erec et enide again. it’s dire

[talesfromtheenchantedforest]

Knights Irrevocably On My Shit List

Erec

[trans-cuchulainn]

me in 2020 apparently: ah yes chretien's four romances-- *is interrupted by a messenger who comes and whispers in my ear* what the fuck is a cliges

[gawrkin]

Guinevere stealing Morgan's shit

[tillman]

i love german arthurian names who the fuck are these people 

[neanmoins-que]

You've probably noticed I seldom post big stuff nowadays and the truth is I'm quite close to graduating my uni. To be exact -- less that three months. I dont recall sharing here what's my grad project or what is even my major. So maybe it's high time I announce it:

Currently I'm working on a series of illustrations in linocut for "Erec and Enide" by de Troyes. It does not look as the usual stuff I post here at all but blame my still-stuck-in-soviet-times uni. Eventually, it all will be turned into a hardcover book

[rjalker]

[ID: The meme of Padme and Anakin talking in a field, with Anakin now albeled, "Erec", and Padme labeled "Me". Erec first says calmly: "Enide, no matter what happens, no matter what you see, you must not turn back to speak to me, and must stay moving forward and never stopping for anything." Me responds, smiling, "Because you're going through an enchanted wood and that will activate a curse, right?" Erec, now staring ominously, says, "I'm now threatening to kill Enide for warning me that someone was about to attack me from a direction I couldn't see." Me says, "Oh, you're just an abusive asshole, aren't you?" End ID.]

[howaboutswords]

Such sorrow our splendid sovereign never knew,

Nor was his spirit ever sunk as by that single sight.

The good King gazed, gripped with horror,

Groaned gruesomely, wept gouts of tears,

Bent kneeling to the body, embraced it,

Cast up his visor, quickly kissed Gawain,

Looked at his eyelids, now locked fast shut,

His lips like lead and his complexion pallid,

And then, crowned king, cried aloud:

'Dear cousin and kinsman, in care I am left,

For now my glory is gone, and my great wars finished.

I hold here my hope of joy and armed success;

Wholly on him depended my heart and strength!

O my counsellor, my comfort, keeper of my heart,

Renowned king of all knights ever known under Christ!

Worthy to be king, though I wore the crown!

Throughout the wide world my wealth and my glory

Were won by Gawain, through his wisdom alone.

Alas!' cried the King, 'my grief grows now;

I am utterly undone in my own country.

Ah, dire and dreadful death, you delay too long!

Why spin out so slowly? You smother my heart!'

- Arthur mourns on finding Gawain and his troops dead in the alliterative Morte Arthure, lines 3947-3968, translated by Brian Stone.

[cesiousblue]

Arthur....my guy...

been reading Erec and Enide