Kay: Finish up the work as soon as possible.
Gareth: Your wish is my command.
Kay: No, that was actually a command. So my command is your command.
you wanna fight? alright let’s take this outside! the stars are so bright tonight. the moon looks so nice. hold my hand
mordred to galahad probably (via arthurianmisquotes)
Have you come to see me?
Merlin Age Cycle
questions that keep me up at night:
What does the average person think of when they think of Arthurian legend? The new Beauty and the Beast movie has Belle smirk when she sees Beast reading Malory. “It’s a romance,” she says – but whose? Arthur’s and Guinevere’s? Guinevere’s and Lancelot’s? Tristan’s and Isolde’s? Gawain’s and his bed? I know everyone thinks of “knights” but which knights?
And when Belle said the line, did she know romance didn’t really mean a love story? I mean, it could! But it also could just mean it’s about adventure! And Belle “want[s] adventure in the great wide somewhere.” Which adventure does she want? A Grail quest? The Knight in the Cart? Which one?
And did Belle know that Arthurian legend is a tragedy? So when she’s flirting with the Beast, does she realize that she’s basically flirting with a romance that only ends in tears? Is Gaston Mordred?
What romance does every non-medievalist think she’s mentioning?
questions that should not keep me up at night:
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Well, I actually don’t think of romance when I think of arthuriana but of betrayal! And family blood feuds.
And the real romance would be Gawain and Ragnelle! : D
EDIT: But actually, the romance of Morte d’Arthur is Lancelot and Guinevere. Both Belle and Dante (in the verses about Francesca) identify this arthurian (but in Dante it’s the Lancelot-Grail) as the romance between Lancelot and Guinevere.
In Dante the story is called galeotta (= guilty/ but also the name of Galehaut, who helped Lancelot romance Guinevere) because it made Paolo and Francesca fall in love even if she was married.
Children are never too old to be controlled. It’s just like chess, children are the pawns and you are the queen.
Morgause (via arthurianmisquotes)
Color Our Collections: King Arthur
These images are from
The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. This new edition “with a series of plates, from illuminated drawings contained in a valuable MS. of the original romance” was published in London in 1814 by White, Cochrane and Co.This is one of 175 small copies of a reprint of a 16th century book printed by
Robert Redborne in London.The engravings are signed C. Heath or Chas. Heath, likely Charles Theodosius Heath (1785-1848) an English engraver who was the son of James Heath, also an engraver. Heath’s work was much in demand, and he excelled at small plates for book illustration. He is also credited for producing the first British plates engraved on steel rather than copper in 1820.
wanted to do something arthurian
Arthurian Legends 