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pendraegon · 3 years ago

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what are ur absolute favorite stories of arthurian legend?

OOOH okay: The Alliterative Morte Darthure, the Stanzaic Morte Arthur, Roman Van Walewein, Yvain: Knight of the Lion, Layamon's Brut, Culhwch and Olwen, Strassburg's Tristan and Isolde, The Vulgate, Lancelot and the Hart with the White Foot, Morien, Walewein ende Keye, L'Atre Perileux, The Marvels of Rigomer, and Marie de France's Chevrefoil and Bisclavret (there's a werewolf! alsdjflkas)

#if you made me chose ONE it'd be either the alliterative or maybe layamon's brut or roman val walewein.....#van**#the alliterative is so good. like. merlin's not in it. priamus is in it. what more can you possibly want.#i completely forgot about percival um. i like parzival a lot #i know there are two branches of tristan and isolde the courtly and the common (i think?) but i know that besides strassburg #i've read the ones that suck according to valentine aslfdjasklfdjasdfas #whatever branch is opposite of beroul and bedier is the one i havent read #...yet...soon...i will.#wace's brut is nice too but i always think of layamon's much more than wace's #not EXACTLY arthuriana but de excidio.....love that stupid text #like. do i recommend people to read de excidio? not really. but i'm very fond of it asfdkjaskfdas #arthuriana #anon

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