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Happy New Year, friends.

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Inktober 2021 day 2: Gawain and Ceincaled (Gringalet)

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Some more Inktober.

This is the point at which someone usually comes along and steals Gawain’s horse. (Ceincaled / Gringalet roams absolutely freely because Gawain knows his faithful horse would never abandon its master.) This is a Big Deal and a source of Great Anguish to both horse and knight.

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Day 4 of Inktober 2019: Gawain and a particularly affectionate Gringalet.

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Once more, I undertake a valiant quest in attempting to post one drawing each day in October. I will probably fail, as I do each year, but here is number 1. It’s a pretty bad number 1, but that means I can only do better in the future :P.

PS: this year, the plan is to draw something related to my Gawain comic each day. Because yes, that still exists, and I draw far too little relating to my characters.

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Scridge, son premier single gringalet

Scridge, son premier single gringalet

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Daventure doet gewach Dat Walewein opten anderen dach Quam gereden in een wout, Daert scone in was menecfout. Daer in reet hi alden dach Ende den nacht di daer na gelach. Doe vant hi ginder een scone plein, Daer wilde hem resten her Walewein. Hi bette vanden orsse daer Ende dede hem tgereide af daer naer Ende liet weiden optie stat Ende sliep alettel selve na dat. Doe quam daer een vorstere gegaen Ende wilde hemelike dors vaen, Mar hine conde, sijt seker das. Doe jagede hijt in enen maras. Daer waendijt hebben wel geweert Ende sinen here gepresenteert. Hierbinnen ward ontwake Her Walewein, ende ward sere tongemake Als hi sijn ors nine vant. Ende stont op ende alomme liep Ende met luder stemmen hi doe riep: "Ay Gringalet, waer sidi nu? Dir was ongetrouweheit van u Ende felheid mede alte groet, Dat gi mi in derre noet Aldus nu allene laet staen. Motic dus te voet nu gaen, Dat es mi selden vore gesciet. Derre ontrouwen en plaechdi niet!" Dit heeft verhord nu Gringalet Ende quam gelopen al ongelet Rechte te sinen here waert, Die om heme was vervaert. Doe hijt sach was hi blide Ende leide sijn gereide ter selver tide. Ende op Gringalet hi sat Ende keerde danen vander stat Ende reet toten avonde met gewelt.

A wonderful fragment from the 13th-century Middle-Dutch romance Walewein ende Keye ('Gawain and Kay'):

As Gawain reaches a clearing in a forest, he decides to rest there. He takes off Gringalet's saddle and allows the horse to roam freely, trusting that his faithful companion would never leave him. But while Gawain is sleeping, a forrester spots the horse and wants to take it and offer it as a gift to his lord. Gringalet, of course, doesn't want to go with the stranger. The forrester drives him into a marsh, thinking the horse will be easier to catch there.

At that moment, Gawain wakes up and, seeing that Gringalet is gone, becomes very worried. He calls out for his horse (my clumsy translation):

Ay Gringalet, where are you now? It is unfaithful of you, and most unkind, to leave me standing here alone in need. Do I have to go on foot now? That hasn't happened to me often before. Such faithlessness is not like you at all!

When Gringalet hears his master call out, he returns immediately, much to Gawain's joy. And the quest continues.

- Funny detail: Gawain addresses Gringalet with "ghi" ("you" as opposed to "thou", or "u" in modern Dutch, or "Sie" in modern German). In the Dutch romances, the bond between Gawain and Gringalet is very strong and the horse is really a character :).

The whole romance is online, incidentally. If you can read Middle-Dutch, go here: Walewein ende Keye.