free my woman she did all of it but i dont care

Hey I’m nell (20s -she/her) semi professional arthuriana enthusiast - this is the medieval lit and arthuriana side blog of @fairyhagmother

[pendraegon]

i hope the op for every post where i tag it with an arthurian knight is like….is this bitch really talking about a medieval knight. yes i am.

[harbingersecho]

queen of accidentally forgetting her grub son exists

[demonagerie]

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 291, detail of f. 170v. Rabanus Maurus, De rerum naturis. 1425

[lefresne]

Isolde would put in writing every time she lay with Tristan, and she did the same thing when she lay with her husband the king. One day she was within her chambers thinking of her love for Tristan. And her sides began to ache which surprised her greatly. So she began to think about what this might be and concluded that she must be pregnant. So she went to look within a small box where she would store her writings and realised that it had been four and a half months since she had seen Tristan.

(Ysaye le triste, f.1)

[adalheidis]

I designed this greeting card for that one very special event all of us go through at one point or another 🎉

[ryebreadgf]

[fairyhagmother]

the questing beast by far my fave Arthurian trope. what if trauma was some sort of terrifying, hybrid beast. Incredible

[grail-lifesupport]

man, 1500 years later and people are still writing magazines about the royal Camelot drama…

ARTHUR, LANCELOT, AND GUINEVERE – Folia Magazine

Your virtual eye on illuminated manuscripts, rare books, and the stories behind them. By Franco Cosimo Panini Editore.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

btw speaking of manuscripts did you all know that you can just go to this website that lists all the lancelot-grail manuscripts that exist and links to views for most of them, all of which are available for free to look at online!!! you can just go browsing and find your favorite arthurian characters :) a little hard to navigate + definitely helpful if you happen to know medieval french LOL but regardless you too can peruse medieval arthurian manuscripts for free whenever you want

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

in the furthest right column it also will tell you which manuscripts are illustrated and how much illustrations they have so you can easily see which ones have pictures (because some of them don’t.) this manuscript is one that i found that has pretty large and very high quality illustrations if you would like a place to start :)

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

yay manuscripts

[cyberpreppy]

if you’re not careful when reading arthurian legend you’ll end up thinking about guys with names like Bleoberis

[queer-ragnelle]

Is it necessary to have so many Yvain’s that they’re not even listed fully? I have to laugh.

[lefresne]

I’m obsessed with the phrase please avenge me Perceval my name is goon desert i just repeat it to myself when im bored

[lefresne]

Absolutely Obsessed with this one guy who painstakingly scratched out all the negative references to gawain in on MS of the prose Tristan & replaced him with agravain 

[lefresne]

DONT WORRY KING I GOT U!!!!

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

thinking about how teenage arthur tells teenage griflet he’s too young to be knighted and go fight pellinore even though they’re the same age and arthur is ruling a kingdom + has been in multiple wars at this point. which is very funny. and you may think oh he’s kind, he’s looking out for him, he’s seen the horrors of blood and violence at a young age and wants to spare griflet. okay. sure. but then we are forced to conclude that when teenage lancelot shows up to the table arthur just decides fuck him in particular

[catherinesting012]

存存法国老白女

[grail-lifesupport]

Please avenge me Percival.... my name is Goon Desert...

[saprophilous]

Piece I drew a while ago for Roberto Molinari’s original work. Inks on paper then digitally colored.