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Arthuriana side blog 🕊️⚰️

[darkrook]

The Murder of the Sons of Edward IV, Oil on canvas, 1835, Theodor Hildebrandt

[decayeddyke]

would you still love me if i hunted you for sport

[swagvo1d]

doomed

[kitt3nz4sal3]

rapist x even more deranged psychopathic crazy obsessed stalker rapist is my favorite ship dynamic

[guiltfactory]

when the top is scared of the bottom

[peashooter85]

Stag handle knife, Europe, 19th century.

from Czerny’s International Auction House

[medraut-pendragon]

put that boy in the round table

[medraut-pendragon]

please drop the link to the text!

[glorious-catastrophe]

okay so when i wrote that i tag i did believe that there was a readily available modern english translation but ive tried looking for one and it appears that that isn’t true :| if you have a way to access it, i know this book has a modern english translation

regardless, here’s a link to a copy of the middle english text which seems well-glossed. and here’s a link to the METS version which is a little more authoritative but less well-glossed imo bc of formatting issues with the site (but there is also an introduction to the text on the METS website). this all is relatively high middle english, so it should be readable with some effort

anyway sir gowther is sort of like the middle english answer to the robert the devil story!! i perhaps wouldn’t call it arthuriana in the traditional sense but it does follow a knight who is the son of a devil and a noblewoman (making him merlin’s half brother—the text makes a comment on this, which is its only tenuous connection to the arthurian canon) and its arguably an example of medieval popular fiction; i’ve done a little research on it before and some folks argue that it’s largely derivative of similar works from the period—i oscillate on this opinion but largely agree because it’s like…not the tightest or most eloquent verse ever and it’s hard to get a certain date on the story, so it probably is building on the robert the devil legend and other folk stories that came before. i also just genuinely think it’s a quite fun text for a couple different reasons—it raises lots of questions about personhood and the ability to access humanity (who is allowed to be “human”?)!! but i don’t want to ramble & i hope you have fun reading :)

[pyupa]

im sending my family the pictures i took at the museum of medieval torture instruments but i forgot to take pictures where my gondola plush wasnt being tortured so this is what all the pictures look like

[all-roads-are-now-bent]

[medraut-pendragon]

researching medieval murder ballads and here it says the punishment for fratricide was to leave the murderer to the mercy of the ocean. 👀

[barbieaemond]

GAME OF THRONES, season 2 episode 1

[ozempicofficial]

[godspeedyoublackemperor]

childaborting hips

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

Guys! Athena’s beauty routine finally dropped! source

So here’s what you have to do if you want to have perfect skin while keeping that alpha grindset:

Wash your horses first even if you are caked in blood and dirt

Wash your mighty arms

Don’t use Perfume, rub yourself with manly olive oil only

Don’t do make up, don’t even look into a mirror, you already have a chiseled jaw and flashing eyes

Instead run 120 laps around a racetrack to give your face a natural blush

Comb your hair with a golden comb

Now you’re ready to compete for a golden apple

[bintro]

is anyone else their father’s female son

[fashion-runways]

FRIEDA LEPOLD Knight Wedding Dress if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

[medraut-pendragon]

nobody told me the bible had lesbians. hello?