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katabay · 3 months

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so I've focused in on Perceval and Bors before, and I've done Perceval and Gender (for more on this specifically, see: Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey) and did a whole comic that leaned into some subtext™ on temptation, but actually let's throw out the subtext! let's bring Augustine into this!!

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

introduction to Confessions, Augustine (trans. Sarah Ruden)

so for perceval a knight is both the gender he wants to perform but also something that is expressly compared to god, and if god is a lover that seduces. well. does this not also apply to knights as well?

Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, Identity, and Artistic Expression, James M. Saslow

and while galahad might be the obvious choice, I think perceval's relationship with bors during the grail quest narrative is more interesting. it's not god that transforms perceval, it's the sight of knights for the first time. something in here specifically is incredibly intriguing to me, but there's a different text I need to finish reading to fully form some thoughts on it.

le Morte d’Arthur

and finally! tentatively. I think I might slowly start turning this idea I had a couple years back into a fully formed comic. we'll see! I had most of it blocked out, but halfway through reading augustine's confessions, I think was when perceval finally clicked for me as a character in a later narrative cycle setting. I think I might have to spend a lot of time doing some visual research first because my god I cannot consistently draw armor to save my life......back when I lived in new england, there was a museum with a wonderful medieval armor collection I could visit.....alas.........I will have to hit the books (literally, I have a collection of books on medieval armor but this is apparently the one thing I can't visualize properly in my imagination. save me, museum collections, you're my only hope)

⭐️ credits for the collage panels! (all open access or public domain, etc.)

-Saint George and the Dragon -Saint George and the Dragon (different one lmao) -Pages and Knights, Frontispiece for "The Man at Arms" -Cloisters

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#knights knights knights!#sir perceval #sir aglovale #sir bors #generic medieval tag #komiks tag #long post #there’s a forbidden citation after the ‘does this not also apply to knights as well’ that cites some Templar related academia #we’ll see if I start getting into the Templars here tho

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queer-ragnelle · 1 month

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Join the Arthurian Theater Discord Server's Quest for the Holy Grail! 🏆

Tune in Holy Saturday, 30/03/2024, 17:00 GMT for a double feature screening of "The Dragons of Camelot" (2014) and "Monty Python and The Holy Grail" (1975) featuring the Grail Knights. All ages welcome.

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daliathewitch · 7 months

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The most normal day in Camelot

#arthuriana #arthurian mythology #king arthur #arthurian legend #digital drawing #knights of the round table #galahad #arthur pendragon #lancelot du lac #lancelot #gawain #sir gawain #agravain #gaheris #sir gareth #sir percival #sir bors #guinevere

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pedroam-bang · 2 months

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“Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valor! For the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel, that no man yet has fought with it… and lived!”

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)

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gawrkin · 1 month

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Can I get a clarification on this: Isn't that Sir Bors shouldn't be helping Lancelot with his adultery?

Shouldn't Bors disavow the actions of his beloved cousin and should be working to get Lancelot far away from Guinevere to save his soul?

Isn't Bors' inaction to the illicit affair the Sin of Omission?

EDIT: NEVERMIND. WTF

Later:

This. Is. Very. Un-Christian.

#arthuriana #arthurian legend #sir bors #queen guinevere #sir lancelot #king arthur #arthurian mythology #arthurian legends #christianity

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oneshoulderangel · 3 months

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Bors: Do you ever want to talk about your emotions, Galahad?

Galahad: Not really.

Percival: I do!

Bors: I know, Percival.

Percival: I’m sad.

Bors: I know, Percival.

#shoulderangelcomics #arthuriana #incorrect arthurian quotes #sir galahad #galahad #sir bors #sir percival

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caer-gai · 1 month

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TAKE THAT CUZ!

Lionel defeats Lancelot in a "friendly" dice competition, for @mortiscausa 's March to Camelot "Kinship"

#hector de maris #lancelot #bors #lionel #my art #march to camelot #arthuriana #arthurian ledgend #sir lancelot #sir lionel #sir bors #I'm waaay late on this I know #so sorry y'all don't get shading this time =(

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brother-emperors · 2 years

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updated perceval and bors’ designs because this time I flipped through a bunch of visual reference books on knights and armor before picking up my pen to draw them

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#you would not believe how much easier it is to draw things like swords and armor when you go thru a visual reference book FIRST not after #i have. PLANS. involving that grail quest. my perceval/bors agenda if you will.#but also they are friends who enjoy hanging out and talking about shit and sparring with each other #but ALSO lets get talking about wounds in arthuriana centric narratives fellas!!! aka my favorite discussion topic to read about #before i do anything with the grail quest i might revist the prose tristan first tho bc tristan and friends is where i like to hang out #drawing tag #knights knights knights!#arthuriana #perceval #sir bors #(hey Cardinal you might ask. if this is about the grail quest where is Galahad?)#(and to that i can only say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)#(listen he's narratively fascinating but represents so much that annoys me on a constant basis like the meta discussion is DELICIOUS but the #actually narrative. euruGUDHGSDUGHGH)

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tiodolma · 2 months

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Lancelot be like, "King Arthur, I don't really want to fight you. Please don't make me fight you."

So Sir Bors encountered with King Arthur, and there with a spear Sir Bors smote him down; and so he alighted and drew his sword, and said to Sir Launcelot: Shall I make an end of this war? and that he meant to have slain King Arthur. Not so hardy, said Sir Launcelot, upon pain of thy head, that thou touch him no more, for I will never see that most noble king that made me knight neither slain ne shamed. And therewithal Sir Launcelot alighted off his horse and took up the king and horsed him again, and said thus: My lord Arthur, for God’s love stint this strife, for ye get here no worship, and I would do mine utterance, but always I forbear you, and ye nor none of yours forbeareth me; my lord, remember what I have done in many places, and now I am evil rewarded.

...heartbreaking

#arthuriana #king arthur #lancelot du lac #sir bors #bors #le morte d'arthur #heli blobbing

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aczamudio · 2 years

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Character design for a webcomic I’ve been slowly preparing over the years. If you've heard me talk about writing something, this is it. Since I expect to launch it in the next year, I thought I might start to share bits of my work with you. It’s absolutely a passion project and means a lot to me. Do you like medieval knights and Arthurian myth as much as I do?

Bors is one of my favorite characters. I've got some big plans for him. What do you think of him?

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dullyn · 24 days

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Writing the build-up of this story just so that I can dissect the juicy family relations that everyone has. Medieval writers and poets did not skimp on the dramatic details. Like the betrayed brother arc of Lionel and Bors? Juicy. The blood feud of the Pella Fellas and Orkney Bros? Scrumptious. Tristan having a torrid affair with Isolde? Delicious. The insane things that all of Ygraine's kids do constantly? Wonderful. I am well-fed with source material to use and reference.

Honorable mention to the delightful relationship that is Sir Kay and Arthur being adopted brothers and Kay just being infinitely cooler than Arthur even though Arthur is the king.

#idk the actual name for the kids of Pellinore so i just call them the pella fellas lmao #arthurian legend #writer stuff #writing #arthuriana #knights of the round table #king arthur #sir bors #sir lionel

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joemerl · 1 year

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Headcanon that Sir Bors isn't a less-worthy Grail Knight for getting coerced into sex once, it's because he willingly acts as Lancelot and Guinevere's go-between instead of doing anything to discourage their affair.

"But as to that I may not, nor I dare not, counsel you." Sure, dude, but God's holy warrior can't be such a doormat.

#Arthurian legend #Arthurian mythology #Bors #Sir Bors #Lancelot #Guinevere #Le Morte D'Arthur #Holy Grail #Sangreal

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queer-ragnelle · 25 days

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Lionel for vulgate passage he's so imporant to me

Lancelot Part I: Lionel and Bors Are Taken to the Lake to Live with Lancelot

And you, my friend, get a special addition. Here's an illumination of Saraide riding away with Lionel and Bors (after she transforms them back into boys).

Send me a character and I'll reply with a Vulgate passage!

#arthurian legend #arthurian legends #arthuriana #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature #lionel #bors #sir lionel #sir bors #vulgate #the vulgate #vulgate cycle #quotes #illuminated manuscript #illuminated manuscripts #ask #sanddef

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wretchedvulgarian · 2 years

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searching for the holy grail is hard work

(left to right: percival, bors, and galahad)

#arthuriana #holy grail #sir bors #sir percival #sir galahad #le morte d'arthur #thomas malory

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gailyinthedark · 11 months

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I'm trying to get a mental picture of this Bors guy.

He seems to be Lancelot's main advisor/confidant/friend person.

Lance calls him nephew a whole bunch of times (each with different spelling, naturally) but given the era that probably just means "kinsman" with no particular reference to age.

He acts as spokesman for Lancelot's knight-buddies when they want one, either narratively or in-story.

Mostly I'm wondering if I should be picturing an older, mentor sort of character or that one peer who always comes through with the solid advice.

Mostly I need to know this because my brain keeps trying to give him a walrus moustache.

Brb, gotta go research 15th-century facial hair.

#arthuriana #medieval literature #sir bors #facial hair

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gawrkin · 4 months

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"ye muste remember you what ye ar, and renomed the moste nobelyst knyght of the worlde, and many grete maters ye have in honde. And women in their hastynesse woll do oftentymes that, aftir, hem sore repentith. [. . .] For many tymys or this [Guenever] hath bene wroth with you, and aftir that she was the firste repented hit"

-Bors to Launcelot, Le Morte D'Arthur

*Eye twitches and pinches bridge of nose*

UGH. The tropes of courtly drama...

#queen guinevere #sir lancelot #sir bors #le morte d'arthur #arthurian legend #arthuriana #king arthur #arthurian legends #arthurian mythology #courtly love #I really dislike it

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