Oh, Merlyn, it has been so miserable since you left! Everything
which you helped to do was wrong. All your teaching
was deception. Nothing was worth doing. You and I will be
forgotten, like people who never were. – The Book of Merlyn, T. H. White
I found a book at the library about the exact niche subject I think constantly about (Malory’s adaptation of the vulgate cycle grail quest) and no one else has checked it out since 2001… someone took really excited notes in it at some point of its history
God knows I have honored her and worshiped her more than all my kin, and more have I trusted her than my wife and all my kin after.
“So many scholars have spent so much time trying to establish whether Arthur existed at all that they have lost track of the single truth that he exists over and over.”
Thank you for tagging me, because this is beautiful and perfect
And when they were at the water side, even fast by the bank hoved a little barge with many fair ladies in it, and among them all was a queen, and all they had black hoods, and all they wept and shrieked when they saw King Arthur. Now put me into the barge, said the king. And so he did softly; and there received him three queens with great mourning; and so they set them down, and in one of their laps King Arthur laid his head. And then that queen said: Ah, dear brother, why have ye tarried so long from me? alas, this wound on your head hath caught over-much cold. And so then they rowed from the land, and Sir Bedivere beheld all those ladies go from him.
“’Don’t lose your role,’ Mordred warns. ‘This woman is not worth that. Why bother reasoning with her? You cannot reason with a monster. Morgan le Fay understands neither logic nor reason. She is the fire she uses—unstoppable and destructive.’ I lunge at the bars. Mordred backs away effortlessly just as I nearly claw his eyes out. Mordred smiles at my outstretched hand before he turns away. “You see, Mr. Ambrosius. Morgan le Fay is a caged beast. She can only be beaten or killed—she won’t obey.”
Arthurian Legends 