arthurian-mythia:

So this book does an excellent job of giving context, before the actual story they talk about the characters and how they have been changed by time.  This gives respect to the characters even if Kay is being used to make Gawain look good in comparison.

It has some interesting notes on Cei’s Super Powers, which pretty much are unused now adays.

So weird thing about this particular version of this story.

“The King’s uncle, Sir Mordred, was there, a leader of noble knights, as people heard in the romances.”

I found the story a bit confusing.  Basically the guy they go to stay with is a bad host, and that means he murders anyone who comes to stay with him. 

What was said was that this guy basically beats his house guests, so Kay is like, well I’ll murder/beat him first! (I love Kay.)

Gawain is like, calm down let’s try and be civilized and be really good guests and then he won’t want to Murder/Beat us. 

It was enjoyable but not a lot of action.  The translation was done in such a way to be easy for a modern reader to grasp what was going on.

Hello! :D You seem like the best person to ask here, so I thought I’d give it a shot. This has confused me for a long time, but what exactly caused the fall of Camelot? Was it a single event or a culmination of separate ones?

Hello! The single event of the fall of Camelot, in my opinion (and mostly Malory oriented) I think is the end of Lancelot’s alliance with Camelot. Mostly because it leads to the death of Gaheris, Gareth and Agravaine which leads the much loved Gawain to hate the man he once admired.

And f course, Mordred’s betrayal.

I think the main events are:
– The end of the alliance between Lancelot and Arthur&Gawain
– Arthur leaves Camelot to Mordred
– Mordred betrays Arthur

This is the deadly mix!

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