Mordred was still working on getting Guenever out of her tower when a messenger brought him word: Arthur, Gawaine, and their troops were landing at Dover. Turns out Mordred was a little overly pessimistic regarding Arthur’s survival! Mordred was okay … Continue reading →
We cut back to England and flash back to just after Arthur and Gawaine sailed away with their sixty thousand troops. Mordred, Guenever, and all the other survivors of Book XX stood on the dock and watched the ships disappear. … Continue reading →
And so it happened. No more peace till the one were dead. Or surrendered. Tapping out was still allowed; they weren’t animals. For three solid hours they jousted. Sir Launcelot and Sir Gawaine, hammering one another out in the field … Continue reading →
CUT TO Peter teleporting into Arthur’s camp. He and the damosel were immediately accosted by Sir Lucan the Caterer, one of the very few named knights who neither joined Launcelot nor were slain by him. Lucan quickly ushered them into … Continue reading →
Malory’s description at this point makes me almost wonder if he has some kind of preference between Sir Gawaine and Sir Launcelot, like, he thinks one of them was a generally awful person and the other was the best knight … Continue reading →
Somehow the Pope heard about this war and wrote a letter commanding Arthur and Launcelot to make up. Malory explains that the Bishop of Rochester acted as the Pope’s messenger on this one, but fails to explain how the news … Continue reading →
Cut to four months later. Arthur’s siege on Joyous Gard went on nearly that long; Launcelot refused to come out. Then, Launcelot finally appeared, up on the walls of the castle. He called down to Arthur, saying that the siege … Continue reading →
The next morning, Gaheris and Gareth very regretfully led Guenever out to the stake for burning. With them were a sizable group of knights of the Round Table: Sir Belliance, the jerk Sir Segwarides, the cuckold Sir Griftlet the Caterer … Continue reading →
And at this point things go down more or less how you’d expect. Launcelot headed over to Guenever’s chambers. Mordred and the other knights hid, then listened at the door. When it sounded like Launcelot and Guenever were in a … Continue reading →
Another year, another May, another season of romance and whimsy! Book XX opens with the stark contrast between all the happy lovers in Camelot (chief among them Guenever and Launcelot) and the two villains of our piece, Sir Agravaine and … Continue reading →
