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oforkney · 1 year

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keep sir gawain in your thoughts 🙏 he isn't dead, he's just on his way back to camelot in his girdle of cringe after the whole green knight situationship

#arthuriana #gawain #sgatgk #the green knight #oforkney.txt #arthurian legend

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gwalchmaii · 10 months

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i bought a copy of sir gawain and the green knight at a bookstore today and i also bought a bunch of postcards with it, and the cashier put the postcards inside the book and said "gawain will protect them!" and i said "he will!" and she said "he would... he would. :)"

#she seemed like she had very strong opinions on the character of gawain. so true of her honestly #sgatgk #arthuriana #speaks

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queer-ragnelle · 1 year

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The Green Knight / Deleted Scenes / Dessert

#arthurian legend #arthuriana #the green knight #sir gawain #sir gawain and the green knight #sgatgk #gifs i made

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mephistopheles · 1 year

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protagonist(s) leave their restrictive socially-stratified role and go on a journey and end up in a weird castle and GET BISEXUAL. sir gawain and the green knight is medieval rocky horror

#arthur.pdf #sg&tgk #sgatgk #rocky horror #trhps #rhps

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gaheriskinnie · 1 year

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2020 vs 2023

#not too happy with how gawain looks. but i was trying tp stay true to the original #sgatgk #sir gawain and the green knight #the green knight #gawain #arthuriana #art #my art #arthurian legend #king arthur #avis's doodles #bertilak de hautdesert #bertilak

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lucreziaborgiagf · 4 months

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i bet the next time morgan and morgause saw each other after the green knight thing was so funny i just know elaine had to lock them in another room

#morgan: so yeah i set up this whole green knight thing to scare guinevere!!#morgause who recently received a letter from agravaine tattling on gawain: interesting #arthuriana #sgatgk

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arthurianashipbracket · 1 year

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hey everyone! do you want to obtain the undisputable victory of your favourite arthurian ship? do you have a niche ship that you want to make the world know? participate in our arthurian ship bracket!!

you can submit your favourite ship here (check out the rules for submission in our pinned post)

let the games begin and all that jazz :)

(reblog to spread the good word etc)

#arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian literature #arthurian mythology #king arthur #gawain #the green knight #sgatgk #lancelot #tristan #galahad #mordred #guinevere #bedivere #agravaine #kay #yvain #yvaine #galehaut

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camelotpunk · 2 years

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⚔ Preorders for Camelotpunk are now open! ⚔

From August 5th to August 28th you can preorder your bundle of choice from our shop! Camelotpunk is a full-size 8.5x11" zine with over 50 pages of art and writing from our amazing contributors!

We have four bundles available:

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Interested in some merch but not all? The Knight's Bundle is customizable - add individual pieces of merch to your bundle for a small additional cost!

Head over to our shop to check out the zine and find more info!

As fans of Arthuriana, many of us have fond memories of reading about the knights of Camelot as kids, picking up a retelling as teens, or diving into the medieval texts - but with the shutdowns caused by COVID it's harder than ever to provide kids with the opportunity to get excited about reading. That's why we'll be donating any net profits to the Canadian Children's Literacy Foundation, who work to provide families with accessible books and lower the socioeconomic gap for literacy in Canadian kids! You can read about them here.

Reblogs and shares are always appreciated. Quest on, brave knights!

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godzilla-reads · 1 year

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Hazel and I are reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage.

I saw the movie when it came out and love to revisit the poem. It’s up there with Beowulf for my favorites in epic poetry.

#godzilla reads #sir gawain #sir gawain and the green knight #sgatgk #simon armitage #reading #reads #epic poem #epic poetry #bookish #book blog #booklover #booklr

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the-blue-fairie · 2 years

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Variations on The Green Knight made with NightCafe.

#Sir Gawain and The Green Knight #the green knight #sgatgk #Bertilak de Hautdesert #gawain and the green knight #medieval

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magnuspng · 2 years

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class sketches

#our flag means death #ofmd #ed teach #what we do in the shadows #WWDITS #laszlo cravensworth #sir gawain and the green knight #sgatgk #the green knight #fanart #sketches

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oforkney · 2 years

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— Sheila Fisher, "Leaving Morgan Aside: Women, History and Revisionism in ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’" (1988)

THE SINS THAT GAWAIN HAS NOT YET COMMITTED COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM!!!

#arthuriana #gawain #sgatgk #sir gawain and the green knight #oforkney.txt #arthurian legend

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alexanderpearce · 11 months

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guys i just i finised sir gawain and the grene knyȝt.guyyyys

#FINALLY IVE BEEN READING IT SINCE FIRST WEEK IVE HAD NO TIIIIME #shut up ulrike #sgatgk #arthuriana

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queer-ragnelle · 6 months

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i’m new to arthuriana but love your posts nonetheless

i am just curious about the many references to gawain sleeping with so many people when, to my understanding, in sir gawain and the green knight he specifically breaks this promiscuous behaviour and makes sure he doesn’t sleep with the wife of the duke

(i apologize if this is a stupid question!)

hello anon!

welcome to arthuriana and thank you so much for the kind words. this is not a stupid question at all! the truth is gawain is nothing if not inconsistent between texts haha. he's different from other knights such as lancelot who pines solely for guinevere across text after text, in that it seems every author wanted to create their own special gal for gawain. he therefore has numerous women attached to him, and when readers try to reconcile those many texts into a single story thread, it gives the impression our mans gawain gets around! (and he does!) i have several examples here to illustrate this so i'll put it below a cut.

for all the textual variance, sir gawain and the green knight is the exception that proves the rule—meaning that it's perhaps the only text in which gawain is abstinent. we know this because one of the five virtues attributed to the five points of his pentacle crest on his shield is chastity.

furthermore, on the wife's second seduction attempt, gawain pleas his own inexperience with "love" (ie: women).

whether or not that's true is up for debate, but it's worth mentioning, as it's a departure from other texts where his virile prowess is well-known, and in the knight of the two swords, he openly boasts about his own attractiveness and popularity. (humble guy, that gawain!)

there are several examples of gawain's reputation with the ladies preceding him and actually benefitting his odds of getting laid. one of my favorites is from lancelot part II in the vulgate. gawain had just cured his brother agravaine of an illness and agravaine's amie basically wingwoman's her sister.

goated of her. so gawain pencils it in on his calendar. later, he locates the castle, sneaks in, and succeeds in bedding the maiden. she's not named here, although malory later refers to her as "the lady of lys," and accredits her as the mother of gawain's three sons, (although the couple never formally wed).

among the strangest of examples is the middle english text the carle of carlisle, in which the carle brings gawain to the bedchamber and orders him to make out with his wife. but things quickly heat up...

so the carle stops gawain from outright cuckholding him, then leads gawain to his daughter's chambers, gives them his blessing, and locks them inside. at the end of the text, gawain marries her.

now i would be remiss not to mention my beloved the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnelle. i think it's notable that ragnelle specifically asks for gawain by name, much like the lady of lys did (according to her sister and her warm reception of him).

now the conclusion of this poem brings us to another theme of gawain's which ties into his many partners, and that is his consistent subservience to ladies. he breaks the curse on ragnelle by granting her "sovereignty" in the relationship. this seems to be another aspect of character which sets gawain apart from other knights, as this is not a chaste expression of courtly love, but a precursor to fornication, and draws the attention of strong-willed ladies, such as ragnelle, with whom he is "a coward," or according to the translation notes, "submissive."

then again in roman van walewein, he's already famous by the time he meets his ladylove, ysabele, and whilst tied up in her father's prison, he leaves the decision of his own life in her hands.

which then results in their coming together because this is a gawain story and he always gets the girl.

even in the post vulgate, which we can all agree portrays every single character at their absolute worst (and is therefore invalid<3), gawain's choice of words consistently upholds the lady's desires above his own. at first, gawain intended wingman for pelleas by pretending he, pelleas, was dead to begrieve arcade. he discovers instead that she's elated by pelleas's supposed passing, so she and gawain fall in love. but even after admitting his feelings, he still takes great pains to frame the final crossing of that line as her choice, and only relents when she makes her intentions plain.

he might also just like it when women boss him around if his treatment from orgeluse in parzival by wolfram von eschenbach is any indication.

similarly to the knight of two swords, in parzival, gawain is aware of his fame, fosters it, and then employs his orgeluse brain worms as a motivation for sparing lives instead of like...morality.

i think what's particularly interesting about gawain's relationship history is that many of his partners are named, whereas it's pretty common for damsels and maidens in medieval texts to exist without identities of their own. there are so, so many named, interesting, fully developed women linked to gawain, it's actually pretty awesome! here are a few more:

lunette in yvain: knight of the lion by chrétien de troyes...

amurfina in the crown by heinrich von dem türlin...

bloiesine in the 4th perceval continuation by gerbert de montreuil...

marjorie in gawain and marjorie by oscar fay adams (if we extend our search through the 20th century!)...

and on and on forever! so in conclusion, gawain has been pulling bitches for many hundreds of slutty, slutty years, and from what modern retellings i've read, authors have no intention of interrupting this trend. i hope that helps clear things up somewhat. thanks for the ask!

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mephistopheles · 2 years

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gawain poet: and a knight rode in, and his armor was green, and his horse was green, and and his skin was green, and his hair was green, and his beard was green, and his face was green, and every inch of him was green—

gawain: wait, every inch? like, every inch? like........ even his—

gawain poet: sir,

#sir gawain and the green knight #sgatgk #sg&tgk #arthur.pdf

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gaheriskinnie · 2 months

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#art #my art #avis's doodles #gawain #percival #blanchefleur #gay #bisexual #wip #sgatgk #green knight #bertilak

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