The jousting tournament occurred! (JOUSTING TOURNAMENT 16!) Gareth assembled all his new vassals — the Red Knight, the Green Knight, the Indigo Knight, and the other Red Knight — and lined them up to be on his side in the … Continue reading →
We turn from the crazy sitcom of Gareth and his gal pal Lionesse and her shrewish sister Linet and their milquetoast brother Gringamore. Back in Camelot (or Caerlaeon, which is where Malory puts Arthur’s court this time) Pentecost had come … Continue reading →
You may think that at this point Sir Gareth’s strange adventure is over, but no! Even though the villain had been defeated, there was still a ways to go. Afterward the joust ended, Gareth tried to get into Castle Dangerous … Continue reading →
After defeating the Red Knight, Sir Gareth finally called Linet to task about her absurd attitude. He wasn’t so much upset about it being abusive and embarrassing, as he was about it being inaccurate: he was actually a very competent … Continue reading →
So fade to black, cut to commercial, and fade back in with Linet tromping across the countryside and Gareth trailing on behind her. The implication is that they had been going like this for quite a while. As they pass … Continue reading →
A year later, at the next Pentecost, we once again find Arthur anxiously awaiting the annual strange adventure. Finally a page came in. “It’s cool, sire!” the page told him. “There’s a girl here with a strange adventure!” Now this … Continue reading →
Book VII, the Tale of Sir Prettyboy, is another thing all itself; the minimal amount of internet research I’m willing to do suggests that unlike the most of the rest of Le Morte D’Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory made up this … Continue reading →
The Tale of Launcelot Outwitted is way more straightforward. Nothing supernatural here, just a lot of misogyny. We open with Sir Launcelot as he rode around randomly, in search of whatever strange adventures came along. One day he passed a … Continue reading →
This particular Tale of Launcelot is a little involved. It’s not quite of the same tenor as the other strange adventures recounted here in Book VI. Also, Malory is bad about marrying his antecedents and his referents, so I might … Continue reading →
Launcelot continued along, hitting up strange adventure after strange adventure, not all of which Malory bothers to cover. He was just having a good ol’ time, dressed up as Sir Kay and traveling incognito. Because no one knew that he … Continue reading →
