#i-graal

[thepromisedbride]

“the first continuation of perceval is canon” well i was talking to chretien de troyes and he said you’re a bitch

[corneille-but-not-the-author]

"I will put myself through you."

A living sword to the BBEG

[crypy]

did anyone else used to play graal online classic? I’m feeling nostalgic :’)

[2leggedshark]

Watching my sister play link to the past and realizing my childhood game was a shameless ripoff of it

[pbpsbff]

playing a game i used to play all the time as a kid but now the user base is down to like 600 people and majority of them speak portugese (???) or are afk and im trying to complete a quest but cannot get help from anyone (also all tutorials are from 2012.) but i met this guy who is also trying to do the same quest and we both couldn't figure it out and saying goodbye to him felt like a genuine hearbreak

[achillvs]

yes french beauxbatons black brothers exchange students in hogwarts, but what if james potter hogwarts exchange student in beauxbatons? regulus who speaks french most of the time and it’s times when he speaks english that intrigues james and james’ french that intrigues reg

[dollbit]

Does anybody else remember Graal Online at all?

I just found out that it not only still exists but also has an active playerbase??

Experiencing memories I forgot I had—

[hikarinokusari]

My player survived solo ravenloft and left nearly intact ! He gained the right to dip levels in Warlock as he desired. I think he may have gained expertise in trauma though.

The solo sessions were fun, thanks for allowing me to DM you this offtime @xyanmajor ♥

[wormholephobia]

Retranscription of me telling a colleague I wanted to be an historian when I was a kid, and he asked if I was a World War or Vietnam war nerd:

“Actually I prefer older history, you know, Renaissance, medieval times, stuff like that”

“Oh. Crusades?”

“I mean- yeah but also no”

“So, spartiates? Like 300?”

“You’re a bit too far back now-”

“Oh. War of Independence, right?”

No Steve I am talking about

THE LEGEND OF THE FUCKING GRAAL AND WHERE IT MIGHT BE

“… That’s not the crusades?”

why are straight white guys so obsessed with world war 2

[ormus-online]

Święty Graal i Zaginiona Cywilizacja Atlantydy: Największa Tajemnica Ludzkości

Święty Graal i Zaginiona Cywilizacja Atlantydy: Największa Tajemnica Ludzkości"

Czy kiedykolwiek zastanawiałeś się, co łączy legendę Świętego Graala z zaginioną cywilizacją Atlantydy? 🌊🔍 W naszym najnowszym artykule odkrywamy tajemnice, które mogą zmienić nasze zrozumienie historii. Przenieś się z nami do świata pełnego fascynujących odkryć i niesamowitych teorii. 🏺✨

Co znajdziesz w artykule:

Historia i legenda Świętego Graala 🏰

Mity i fakty o Atlantydzie 🌊

Teorie łączące Święty Graal z Atlantydą 📜

Najnowsze odkrycia archeologiczne 🏺

Ciekawostki i spekulacje 🧩

Podziel się swoją opinią:

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[memorymessage]

i wasn't keeping up with mrsavage and mongraal the past few days

but omg

me when mrsavage says him and mongraal are gonna have a sleepover and have a snowball fight

[harrowwink]

i plan on rebranding one day

not too fond of the name "graalmations" anymore plus it's linked to past me which you ABSOLUTELY wanted to be around back then

the only place in which i cant rebrand is animal crossing :C i'm stuck as "graal" on animal crossing for life

[colleendoran]

No, Sir Galahad is not in the Bible, and I never said he was.

OK, so in my series of posts and lectures about my work on Neil Gaiman's Chivalry, I pointed out that Sir Galahad's first appearance in Arthurian fiction was in the Vulgate, and that his name was originally spelled Galaad. Therefore the spelling in Neil Gaiman's Chivalry is correct, and Galahad is a later variant spelling.

Someone recently took me to task for saying this meant that I claimed Sir Galahad was in the Bible, and yet Sir Galahad appears nowhere in the Bible.

I never said Sir Galahad was in the Bible.

I said he was in the Vulgate.

Vulgate means "common version" in Latin.

The confusion here stems from the word "vulgate" which often refers to the 4th century Latin translation of the Bible commonly known as the Vulgate Bible.

But "vulgate" is also a term used to refer to The Lancelot-Grail Cycle, a 13th century French Arthurian cycle which is also known as the Vulgate or Vulgate Cycle -i.e. common version. Later translations of this work are known as Post-Vulgate.

Specifically, Galahad or Galaad appears in the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal.

Happy to help.

Chivalry is available wherever fine books are sold, and you can come see me at the San Diego Comic Con Museum on October 4 where I will be signing and lecturing and showing art. Thanks.

[hedgehog-moss]

The temperatures went up this week, probably for good, so Pandolf and I went on a quest to find the Last Snow of the Season.

(We found it. Sorry for the spoiler)

But it meant climbing some serious slopes, without knowing what we were going to find at the top.

Every time we reached a plateau and found an unsatisfactory amount of snow, up we went again.

It was a long and tiring quest but worth it, to see him prancing happily when we finally found our graal ! A modest north-facing expanse with, hopefully, some cow nests (indentations in the ground where the cows lie down to ruminate in summer = good spots for Pandolf to snow-dive in winter)

He immediately set to work, looking for diving spots.

We only found one cow nest, and even in there I could tell Pan wasn't quite satisfied with the amount of snow (he could only bury about 60% of his head); but I told him we would probably find nothing better (and in fact nothing at all) until next winter.

Which completely demoralised him.

I waited until he was done burying his snout and his grief.

We had another very brief snowfall the next day but it was clear from the start it wasn't going to be head-burying material. Both Pandolf and the hens hated it for opposite reasons.

It was the snow saying goodbye!! You have no sense of poetry.

[maniculum]

Perlesvaus (Evans translation)

So I'm taking another stab at reading the Sebastian Evans translation of Perlesvaus, for... reasons. Or the High History of the Holy Graal, as he titles it -- funnily enough, the people who put out this reprint apparently looked at the title, said "we're not doing that", and spelt it Grail on the cover.

Despite the bizarre choices in diction, it's still pretty fun, and I want to share some particularly entertaining bits of this text with y'all. (For those of you who aren't up on the two different translations of Perlesvaus and don't know what I mean by "bizarre choices", the Evans translation is from 1898 but pretending to be from, like, 1498.)

N.B.: Marginal notes in red are from the last time I tried this -- they stop showing up roughly a quarter of the way through the book, because that's when I decided to buy the Bryant translation instead.

I just find this funny because "who cares?" strikes me as such a modern thing to say. To me it is a phrase that seems most natural coming from a teenage character in late-20th-century media. But nope. "Who careth?"

This is here just for the bizarre scene. We have three women coming into the throne room (riding mules directly into the building, by the way). One is carrying a severed head decorated with silver and gold. Another has "a pack trussed behind her with a brachet thereupon" -- you can see from the notes that I had to look up "brachet", found out it was an old word meaning roughly "female scent-hound", and then had the mental image of this woman carrying around a beagle in a baby-bjorn.

Again something I find funny. Gawain just leaping through the air to interpose himself between the horses and this hermit, like he's trying to take a bullet for them. This is entirely because he is 100% certain the hermit will handle the saddles incorrectly, and when the hermit assures him he actually does know how this stuff works, Gawain calms down & lets him do it.

This is, for my money, one of the funniest things in all of Perlesvaus, which is saying something because it is a bonkers text. This lady rolls up and provides that description, and the hermit recognizes who she's talking about. Like, "oh yes I did see a knight with a heart of steel and the navel of a virgin". I want to give this description to a sketch artist. (I kind of want to throw it at an AI just to see what it comes up with, but you know. I don't want to encourage the machines.)

This time I'm nit-picking the translation, because that strikes me as a misplaced modifier. Obviously it's meant that Gawain is unaware of events, but the sentence is constructed to make it sound like it's referring to the building itself, which is of course unaware because it's a building and isn't aware of anything. (Also, side note, I like the phrase "as methinketh!")

One more, and I'm leaving this for now...

Here is a case where I was going to complain, but on further examination, I must hand it to Evans. I assumed that he was just randomly archaizing, but I looked it up after uploading this photo, and according to the OED, this was a valid alternate spelling of sovereign from the 17th to the 19th century. (Interestingly, the latest attested example on the OED is from 11 years before this translation was published, meaning this is evidence it was in use slightly longer than the OED entry would suggest -- does anyone know if there's still a way to submit instances of a word to the OED?)