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Written by FRED VAN LENTE Art by CARY NORD with CLAYTON HENRY
It’s winter at King Arthur’s court in Camelot! The monstrous Green Knight has appeared before the Round Table with no armor, a gigantic axe, and a challenge. He has come to insist that the weaker knights participate in a friendly “winter’s game” where anyone can strike him once with his axe, but on one condition: That the Green Knight can return the exact blow in one year’s time. King Arthur has agreed to face the mysterious knight himself, but the Round Table’s youthful and most gallant champion, Sir Gilad, takes up the challenge to protect his king. Much to the court’s surprise, the Green Knight doesn’t flinch as his head is struck clean off…only to pick it up himself and warn Gilad that he is fated to receive the same blow before the year is out. Now, Gilad – the Eternal Warrior – must solve the mystery of who the Green Knight is before his hour at the axe comes to pass! But first, he’ll need to find some help…in the form of his own immortal brothers – Armstrong and Ivar – who shall be united once more!
Nyneve heavily stresses justice based on the greater good. In Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, Arthur receives Excalibur the third time from the lady of the lake Nyneve during battle.
My Original vinyl of “Camelot”. JFK Seen the play in 1960 and fell in love with the music. He purchased this vinyl and would play the song “Camelot” by Richard Burton on repeat. If you’d like to hear the song, click here.
I’m going to give a major, hugh shout out to this graphic novel that just started this year. If any of you (AND I KNOW MOST OF YOU ARE) interested in a queer retelling of Arthruian Legend in graphic novel (NC17 later) form, please consider donating to this lovely human on Patreon. They are doing a phenomnela job and they’ve done so much research into this to make it as historically accurate as a queer retelling can get.
My edit: My OTPsin the Arthurian Legends [1/?]: Sir Mordred & Sir Galahad – The Knight of the Sangrail & the Traitor of Camelot
“You fool. You are going to kill yourself.”
“I would be happy to die in such a quest.”
“Do not go.” Galahad wondered if he really heard those words or if he had only played the whisper in the way he more hoped.
“My mother is a witch. She sees things-,” said Mordred.
“Your mother is dead,” interrupted Galahad. “Dead, yes. You will die too, I know. Or never return to Camelot.”
“I will return with the Grail.”
“You’re a liar, a bastard and an idiot. God, how I hate Camelot. Am I the one going mad or are all of you the ones who are mad? No matter, I hate you all the same.” It was not right, thought Galahad, when he saw flames of insanity in Mordred’s eyes; it was not fair for the always secure Mordred to speak in this way. So Galahad hugged him.
He hugged Mordred, so that his words and his injuries were suffocated in his own neck. He hugged him, hearing him, sensing him shivering. I m only doing this to not listen to his blasphemies, thought Galahad, holding Mordred and closing his eyes. — quote from the marvellous “Still thy name is spoken”, a fanfic by @lucrezianoin ❤
(Teorically Yesterday it was Mordred’s birthday, so I came too late, but still …)
(The first Victorian picture belongs to Arthur Hughes, but I can’t find the illustrator of Mordred’s picture .-. If someone is able to find the author, please report to me, thanks!)
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