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wolfythewitch · 9 months

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you've come by a fortune in winning such wares, were they worth what you paid?

redraw!

#art #digital art #sketch #the green knight #gawain and the green knight #sir gawain #lord bertilak #arthurian legend #arthurian knights #arthuriana

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weirdundead · 1 year

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Lancelot and Galehaut for "classics... but make it gay II" zine by Nova and Mali early version of this legend was deleted in later Arthurian books, so... I think it's important to remember how much how much LGBT censorship and erasure is still in many, many countries

#lancelot #galehaut #arthurian knights #arthuriana #lgbt art #knight

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mortiscausa · 2 months

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March to Camelot: an arthurian palette challenge for march 2024

When: March 1st to 31st Rules: The objective is to try to draw something Arthurian inspired by each word prompt using the palette provided. This could be anything from a full illustration to a character design. You have 5 days to complete each prompt, except for the last prompt where you get 6 days. If you have any questions, please feel free to send an ask. Why: I've been running a B5 palette challenge over on my fanart blog for the past couple of years and thought it'd be fun to do something similar with Arthurian Legend, even if it ended up just being me doing it. :') Finally, remember to tag your work #march to camelot or @ me so I can reblog and share your work. Happy drawing!

#arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian knights #march to camelot #gawain #bercilak #arthurian art challenge #dropping this a month in advance so hopefully if anyone wants to plan ahead that will give them time #i was originally going to do this in january and call it jousting january rip #maybe i will do a general knight themed challenge next january haha #it's unfortunate that march doesn't really lend itself to good names for challenges but i tried!!!

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mask131 · 5 months

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The missing Arthurian knight - rediscovered in 2019

Well the title is a slight lie - the missing knight wasn't rediscovered in 2019, it was earlier than that, but he didn't became public until 2019.

So what's this "missing knight" about? Well as the title says. There was a knight part of the Arthurian myth, and he had been missing ever since the Middle-Ages, and he was only recently rediscovered.

Or rather, to be exact - there was an Arthurian novel centered around a knight that existed and was a famous and well-known part of the Arthurian literature in the Middle-Ages, but that completely disappeared, and was forgotten by culture (as much popular culture as the scholarly one). Until very recently.

This rediscovered novel has been a hot topic of all Arthuriana fans in Europe for a few years now - and yet I do not see much talk about this onto this website, despite Tumblr being a big place for Arthurian fans?

So I will correct this by doing a series of posts about the subject. And this post will be the first one, the introduction post presenting to you "Ségurant, le chevalier au dragon" ; "Segurant, the knight of the dragon". A French medieval novel part of the Arthurian literature (hence the "chevalier au X" title structure - like Lancelot, the knight of the cart or Yvain the knight of the lion from Chrétien de Troyes), the reason this story was forgotten by all medievalist and literary scholars is - long story short - because it never existed in any full manuscript (at least none that survived to this day). It was a complete story yes, with even variations apparently, but that was cut into pieces and fragments inserted into various other manuscripts and texts (most notably various "Merlin's Prophecies").

The novel and the Knight of the Dragon were rediscovered through the work of Emanuele Arioli, who rediscovered a fragment of the story while looking at an old manuscript of a Merlin Prophecies, and then went on the hunt for the other fragments and pieces scattered around Europe, until he finally could compile the full story, that he then published in 2019, at the Belles Lettres publishing house, in 2019.

Arioli reconstructed the text, and translated it in both modern French and Italian for scholarly and professional editions (aka Honoré Champion in France, a reference for universities)...

... But also for a more "all public, found in all libraries" edition - the famous 2019 edition at Les Belles Lettres.

And not only that, but he also participated to both a comic book adaptation with Emiliano Tanzillo...

... and an adaptation as an illustrated children novel!

Finally, just a few weeks, the Franco-German channel Arte released a documentary about the reconstitution and content of this missing novel called "Le Chevalier au dragon: Le roman disparu de la Table Ronde". (The Knight of the Dragon - The missing novel of the Round Table). The full documentary is on Youtube in French for those that speak the language, here. And in German here for those who speak German.

Unfortunately there is no English version of the documentary that I know of, nor any English publications of the actual text - just French and Italian. But hey, I'll try to palliate to that by doing some English-speaking posts about this whole business!

#ségurant #segurant #the knight of the dragon #le chevalier au dragon #arthuriana #arthurian myth #arthurian literature #arthurian novel #discoveries #medieval literature #arthurian legend #arthurian knights #found media #lost media #that people didn't even know was lost

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wolf-tail · 5 days

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Get that damn twink wizard outta my face where are my knights

#arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature #arthurian knights #arthurian memes

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artemisyates · 11 months

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Sir Galahad from Arthurian Legend.

The red part of his outfit is a Gambeson, a type of padded fabric armour worn by itself or under metal plate armour. ^_^

(I'm also slightly proud of how weird that sword hilt design ended up.)

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rainbluealoekitten · 6 days

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um sorry to inform you but... "the head and neck of a serpent, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion and the feet of a hart" ...i believe your "questing beast" is simply a giraffe. what it is doing in the great of britain i cannot tell you but that is really just a nice giraffe you've got there

#blue screams into the void #the questing beast #merlin #arthurian legend #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature #arthurian knights #arthurian lore #knights of the round table

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nightbigail · 5 months

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“I once saw the face of God, a vast and sudden silence among the noisy heavens. That evening I dreamt I listened to one side of a conversation I should not have overheard. I do not watch the skies anymore. I do not look up.”

This Galahad lives in a dark fantasy world where monsters and terrible people run amuck and where everything sucks. He supposedly ascended to the heavenly realm after he found the Holy Grail, but nobody really knows what happened to him. He’s spotted years later as a lonely, jaded man who lost his chivalric spark. Whatever it was, he refuses to speak about it. Only God knows what he went through…

#just started reading king arthur & got inspired #he gives me gifted kid burnout vibes #Galahad #sir galahad #holy grail #arthurian #arthurian retelling #arthurian legend #arthurian fantasy #arthurian knights #king arthur #arthur pendragon #knights of the round table #knight #my art #fantasy #dark fantasy #medieval #medieval fantasy

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caer-gai · 11 days

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Arthuriana ask game!!

bc why not

♘ Favourite Knight/King

🫅Favorite Lady/Damsol/Queen

💚 Favorite Quest/Story Arc

✒A Medieval Text You Like

📚A Retelling/Modern Work You Like

📽Recommend a book/movie/tv show etc

💛A Sibling Group/Dynamic That IS NOT The Orkneys

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Okay Now You Can Talk About Orkneys

😤Your Most Specific Nitpick About Your Fave (anything from "Gareth would not have a beard" to "this is basically a different guy")

🥰An Arthuriana Headcanon

😏Gawain?

🥖Favorite French/du lac (Lancelot, Hector de Maris, Bors, Lionel, Galahad, ect)

👨‍👦Favorite Parent

🗡️Who Are You Betting On In This Month's Tournament?

🙏Pick A Grail Knight

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Pick A Pelli Spawn (Percival, Aglovale, Tor, Lamorak, Aylane, Dindrane, Donar, ect)

💏Crack Ship (s)

🫂Platonic Ship(s)

#arthurian ledgend #arthurian literature #arthuriana #ask game #arthurian knights

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gates-of-avalon-if · 2 years

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Gates of Avalon

(Arthurian legends meet Witcher.)

The Gates of Avalon is a wip interactive fiction following Lancelot!MC, the companion of Prince Arthur and his best knight.

The lands are dying under King Uther’s iron rule and it seems war with the north is inevitable. Yet there's another, more pressing matter. Something has gone terribly wrong at the sacred isle of Avalon. There’re whispers of whole villages gone, of ghouls running freely in their streets. Talks of trolls that have gotten bolder and started to leave mountains, of harpies moving their nests and attacking settlements.

Blinded with greed, the King decides battling a foreign ruler is more important than protecting his own people and lands. A royal decree is issued. Under the punishment of death, no knight is allowed to leave Camelot.

Prince Arthur doesn’t care. He and a group of knights leave for Avalon before dawn.

FEATURES:

play as Lancelot!MC, a legendary knight of the Round table

customize your Lancelot - gender, appearance, personality,...

meet the future knights and other characters as a child and bond with them, grow and train together

take care of Galahad, an orphaned boy in need of saving and define your relationship with him

fall in love with one (or maybe more?) of the ROs or play purely platonic route

journey to Avalon through lands full of magic and dangerous creatures with a group of rag-tag knights

become a living legend, shape the fate of the Pendragon lands and those around you

tame a dragon?

THE ROS

Prince Arthur Pendragon (he/him): the Prince of Camelot and the leader of the Knights of the Round table, Arthur is a walking contradiction. He’s a brilliant stategist and warrior, able to think quickly on his feet, but fights with a snarl on his face and eyes narrowed into slits. He’s quick to anger, almost always slightly frowning and is incredibly arrogant. Yet he values his friends and people highly, ready to die for any of them in a blink of an eye. He has...a complicated relationship with his father, King Uther. One that made him treat any of his failures as something unacceptable.

Knight Gawaine (M/F): one of the knights of the Round Table and one of your oldest friends, Gawaine is warm, friendly and likes to crack jokes. They’re liked by all, yet fight like they still have something to prove. You don’t know much about their life before they arrived to Camelot, no one does. They’re always quick to deflect with a smile, one that doesn’t quite reach their eyes. Gawaine is most proficient with double daggers and throwing knives and they’re the shortest of the knights.

Princess Morgaine le Fay (she/they) - The princess of Camelot and half-sister to Arthur Pendragon, Morgaine has a tongue that’s too sharp for her own good and attitude that makes more enemies than friends. They detest fighting with weapons and instead cultivate their powerful magical abilites, some of which might be a bit questionable...

Gwynnever (Gwyn) (F/M) - loud, excited and barefoot. Those were some of your first impressions when you first met Gwyn in the middle of the woods during your quest. Bluntly honest and a bit naive, Gwynnever is a forest fae that loves to sing and specialises in healing magic, which also does enormous damage to the undead. Fun.

Poly route: Arthur/Gawaine, Arthur/Gwyn, Morgaine/Gwyn

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