#peredur ap efrawg

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Some background for each:

Percival/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.

Morfudd: Twin sister to the aforementioned Owain mab Urien. A personal favourite of mine. Was one of the 'three fair womb-burdens of Britain,' also her's and Owain's mam is either a granddaughter of Arawn, Lord of Annwfn, OR Modron goddess of motherhood and fertility. Either way, pretty impressive!!!

Bendigeidfran: Often called Brân he's the full brother of Branwen and Manawydan and half-brother to Nisien and Efnisien. Also, A GIANT!!!! That alone should make u think 'holy shit' but he also fought in a war against Ireland when he'd heard his sister was being abused by her husband, King Matholwch, so like ejdjdjdjdjf

Dylan Ail Don: @dullyn 's pookie. Lleu Llaw Gyffes' brother. If you love the sea this boi is for u. Has his rock at the Menai Straits. Blonde and bubbly - I'd imagine - sadly he was also murdered by his uncle, Gofannon in a hammer incident so like >.>

Enid: Long-suffering wife of Geraint. Another fave of mine. Literally the only reason Geraint was alive at the end of his tale and he STILL TREATS HER LIKE SHIT. I'll marry her myself if I must. Had a sapphic relationship with Queen Gwenhwyfar. (It's inferred, okay.)

Next round will be on Tuesday! (I know u only have a day to vote and that's cuz I was DUMB)

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Chrétien de Troyes: And behold! A golden grail and a bleeding lance! Holy relics of Our Lord!

The Welsh: Lame. There should be a severed head.

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Gawain's precursor Gwalchmei, son of Gwyar, was a hero of Welsh mythology and clearly a major figure of the now largely lost oral tradition. His popularity greatly increased after foreign versions, particularly those derived from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, became known in Wales.[7] The Gwyar (meaning "gore"[8] or "spilled blood/bloodshed"[9]) in Gwalchmei ap Gwyar is likely the name of Gwalchmei's mother, rather than his father as is the standard in the Welsh Triads.[1] Gwyar appears as a daughter of Amlawdd Wledig in one version of the hagiographical genealogy Bonedd y Saint. The 14th-century fragment Birth of Arthur, a Welsh text adapting scenes from Geoffrey, substitutes Gwyar for Anna, Geoffrey's name for Gawain's mother, the Queen of Orkney.[10] There, Gwalchmei is given three sisters: Gracia, Graeria, and Dioneta, the last one of them being a counterpart of Morgan.[11] Early references to him include the Welsh Triads; the Englynion y Beddau (Stanzas of the Graves), which lists the site of his grave; the Trioedd y Meirch (Triads of the Horses), which praises his horse named Keincaled (known as Gringolet in the works of medieval French authors); and Cynddelw's elegy for Owain Gwynedd, which compares Owain's boldness to that of Gwalchmei.[2] In the Welsh Triads, Triad 4 lists him as one of the "Three Well-Endowed Men of the Isle of Britain" (probably referring to his inheritance);[12] Triad 75 describes him as one of the "Three Men of the Island of Britain who were Most Courteous to Guests and Strangers";[13] and Triad 91 praises his fearlessness.[14] Some versions of Triads 42 and 46 also praise his horse Keincaled, echoing the Triads of the Horses.[15] The singling out of Gwalchmei out as Most Courteous evokes his role in the Mabinogion, where he regularly serves as an intermediary between King Arthur's court and stranger knights.[16] An early Welsh romance Culhwch and Olwen, composed in the 11th century (though not recorded until the 14th), and eventually associated with the Mabinogion,[17] ascribes to Gwalchmei the same relationship with Arthur that Gawain is later given: he is the son of Arthur's sister and one of his leading warriors.[2] However, he is mentioned only twice in the text, once in the extensive list of Arthur's court towards the beginning of the story, and again as one of the "Six Helpers" whom Arthur sends with the protagonist Culhwch on his journey to find his love Olwen.[7] Unlike the other helpers, he takes no further part in the action. This suggests he was added to the romance later, likely under the influence of the Welsh versions of Geoffrey's Historia.[7] He also appears in Peredur fab Efrawg (Peredur son of Efrawg), part of the Mabinogion, where he aids the hero Peredur in the final battle against the nine witches of Caer Loyw.[18] A similar motif was mentioned by 16th-century Welsh scholar Sion Dafydd Rhys in an unrecorded oral tale in which Gwalchmei destroyed three evil witch-sisters, wives of the giants previously slain by Arthur, killing them within their castles through his cunning, as they could not be defeated otherwise due to their powers.[19]

Gawain - Wikipedia

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I need u all to know it's loving Peredur/Percival hours. I'm obsessed with how he's portrayed okay, I will not shut up about it. Do u think he and Guin would be besties? I think they'd say the most heinous shit about the rest of the court in Welsh and teach Gawain all the swear words until he's gleefully spouting them at Tristan, ngl.

Do you see my vision? Lemme know. Like I'm going crazy over this okay? I think Guin would just be like omg can we ask in Welsh my English isn't Englishing today and Percival - Peredur - is like 'Yes, absolutely, do u want me to tell u the hottest gossip about Geraint?'