Launcelot’s adventures continued; you aren’t getting off that easily. He crossed the wilderland for another indeterminate period, hours or days or months. One evening he found himself at a nice walled manor house out in the middle of nowhere. The … Continue reading →
A couple of days later, as Launcelot grumpily wandered in search of strange adventure, he came to a long bridge over a gully. Just on the other side he saw some jackass with an ironshod club. “Where’s your toll money?” … Continue reading →
And so Launcelot and Yuffie rode together, heading towards Launcelot didn’t know what. He waited until he was well away from Castle Turquine before he asked Yuffie exactly what the deal was. “Up this road there’s a knight who’s been … Continue reading →
Launcelot rode off into the sunset, ready for a new strange adventure! Which is to say, back to the first part of this same strange adventure, which had been disrupted by Lionel’s disappearance. Soon he was back in the general … Continue reading →
Late that night, Becca sneaked into Launcelot’s cell, and unlocked the twelve different locks securing Launcelot in his prison. She led him out to where she had stashed his armor, and once he had armored up, she led him to … Continue reading →
The Tale of Sir Launcelot and Sir Turquine is the first of many stories focusing on the more-or-less hero of Le Morte D’Arthur, Sir Launcelot du Lake. As I mentioned back in Book IV, Malory loves him some Launcelot. Book … Continue reading →
Gawaine rode around Tuscany for a few hours. Just before dawn he came across another knight, heading the opposite way on the road. This guy walked his horse, rather than riding it, and he had a boy following along behind … Continue reading →
Arthur called together a special A-team task force: Sir Gawaine, Sir Bors, Sir Bedivere, and a knight we haven’t met up to this point, the very young Sir Lionel of Benwick. Lionel was Sir Launcelot’s younger brother unless he was … Continue reading →
The second leg of the Tale of Arthur Conquering Rome goes off on a tangent, but the tangent is more interesting than the war: it’s got a giant in it! The trip from Sandwich to Flanders was an overnighter. Arthur … Continue reading →
Book V is a fairly short book compared to those before it, and it’s got a decent unity of theme: this is the story of King Arthur and his buddy, Emperor Lucius. That’s a sarcastic ‘buddy;’ they don’t really get … Continue reading →
