waluuanius:

Dan Menasche as Gauvain

I headcanon that the pelt he’s wearing is a boar skin. In De Ortu Waluuanii, Gawain impales an aggressive boar when he lands at a pirate king’s island on the way to Jerusalem. This boar gives him trouble with the local gamekeepers, but that’s fine because those guys get killed.

I read an article that said the boar section in the tale was inspired by a similar venerie encounter in Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi (The Itinerary of King Richard). Though somewhere else said it was possible both incidents were taken from Ovid’s Calydonian Boar Hunt.

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