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Ivanhoe

Ocean Software Ltd. UK 1990

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She had made a better job of it than he could ever have hoped for. Even by lantern light, the sunset colors were rich and bright, the tree tall and strong and noble. The falling star was a bright slash of paint across the oaken sky

The captain's sister found her in the common room, drinking a cup of milk and honey with three raw eggs mixed in. "You did beautifully," she said, when the woman showed her the freshly painted shield. It was more a picture than a proper coat of arms, and the sight of it took her back through the long years, to the cool dark of her father's armory. She remembered how she'd run her fingertips across the cracked and fading paint, over the green leaves of the tree, and along the path of the falling star.

John the Oak : Wilfred of ivanhoe ,Giants, tree shields and Mystery knights.

cropped brienne Art by @swordmaid - link

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #q #wasnt sure if i wanted lyanna on here cause i was focusing more on the giant symbolism and oaken trees #since brienne and duncan are described as extremely tall but whatever it fits #duncan the tall #brienne of tarth #brienne #lyanna stark #ivanhoe #akotsk #did i mention i love making links to garth's children linking in the story its very fun when ppl arent trying to say your looking too much #i was a bit lazy here i didnt feel like looking all that up on the apps #asoiafedit #and this is why when ppl talk about the ashford theory and ignore that the clear dunc stand in for true knight to sansa is brienne #it drives me insane

To summarize the wild ride that is Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott:

Ivanhoe, the titular character, is in approximately 3 total scenes

There are like 10 chapters dedicated to a jousting tournament, at the end of which the author bemoans the fact that relatively few people were killed and only a handful were permanently disabled by the contest

Cut to a wildly existential section about knights fighting for glory only to be utterly forgotten by everyone in a few years

Is he a feminist?? Is he not?? It’s really hard to tell

Both of the love interests have names that start with R and the only way they are distinguishable is because they’re kidnapped and put in separate rooms

The knights who kidnapped said love interests both try seducing their respective chosen ladies. Rowena snaps the man’s ego in half and then begins to cry. Rebecca threatens to jump out the window. Neither of them is seduced

Cut to the hallway: both knights realize they know exactly 0 things about seducing women

The book then becomes a Robin Hood fanfiction

The army outside the castle sends a letter to the army inside the castle. They realize that none of them know how to read

There’s like 4 different people impersonating the clergy

The entire battle for the castle is told by Rebecca who narrates what’s happening to the wounded Ivanhoe by sticking her head out the window

Nobody wins the battle. A madwoman lights the castle on fire

The Saxons’ only candidate for king dies in said battle. They have a very sad funeral for him

The Saxons’ only candidate for king shows up at his funeral. He’s not dead. Whose body do they have??? Nobody knows

The last 80 pages is a speed run through English medieval politics, wherein Ivanhoe finally actually does something

Is he anti-Semitic?? Is he not?? It’s really hard to tell

Cut to a wildly existential section about the tragedy of colonialism and the self-inflicted destruction of Saxon culture by their gradual intermingling with the invading Normans

The end

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i’m very curious about the 19th century inaccuracies of grrm’s medievalism because while I know some?? it’s a lot more based in literature rather than history because of my areas of study. i just wrote an essay comparing disability in fantasy and medieval literature so it’s a topic i have somewhat an idea of but what would you say are the main red flag moments?

Hi, Anon! Your essay sounds very interesting. It's easier to point to patterns, ideas, and even set pieces in ASOIAF that echo or draw on 19th-century medievalisms than it is to point out "red flag moments." And to be clear, 19th-century medievalism can be fun! I love William Morris. But also, precisely because those medievalisms are so shaped by 19th-century European (!) ideas about religion, politics, and gender, I think it's good to be able to spot them for what they are.

For one thing, I would argue that the Orientalism and imperialism in the descriptions of the Dothraki and the cultures of the Free Cities are steeped in 19th-century medievalism. For that matter, the same goes for Varys: palace eunuchs, according to 19th-century European tropes, are untrustworthy because the Ottomans have them, unlike the English and French who are performing gender and empire correctly. Edward Saïd was right.

Also the profound anticlericalism and the assumption that literally no one actually cares about religion. The representatives of the Faith are venal and corrupt. Or maybe, at best, incompetent. Unless they're weird fanatics (see: whatever is going on with Rh'llor.) Jules Michelet I just want to talk!!!

As I have said before, at length: gender. The women of ASOIAF deserve better; they all deserve better; and they would have less shitty lives if GRRM read any of the scholarship on medieval women and their agency that has been coming out since the 1970s. As recent events in the US have decisively demonstrated, progress in terms of women's legal privileges is non-linear, but 19th-century Europe was still very invested in the idea of teleological progress towards modernity.

Finally, check this out:

On a platform beyond the southern entrance, formed by a natural elevation of the ground, were pitched five magnificent pavilions, adorned with pennons of russet and black, the chosen colours of the five knights challengers. The cords of the tents were of the same colour. Before each pavilion was suspended the shield of the knight by whom it was occupied, and beside it stood his squire, quaintly disguised as a salvage or silvan man, or in some other fantastic dress, according to the taste of his master, and the character he was pleased to assume during the game. The central pavilion, as the place of honour, had been assigned to Brian be Bois-Guilbert, whose renown in all games of chivalry, no less than his connexions with the knights who had undertaken this Passage of Arms, had occasioned him to be eagerly received into the company of the challengers, and even adopted as their chief and leader, though he had so recently joined them. On one side of his tent were pitched those of Reginald Front-de-Bœuf and Richard de Malvoisin, and on the other was the pavilion of Hugh de Grantmesnil, a noble baron in the vicinity, whose ancestor had been Lord High Steward of England in the time of the Conqueror, and his son William Rufus. Ralph de Vipont, a knight of St John of Jerusalem, who had some ancient possessions at a place called Heather, near Ashby-de-la-Zouche, occupied the fifth pavilion. From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched. It was strongly secured by a palisade on each side, as was the esplanade in front of the pavilions, and the whole was guarded by men-at-arms.

This is from Ivanhoe, and it is definitely the literary ancestor of the tournament in Game of Thrones. It even has a Queen of Love and Beauty!

Oh, and don't get me started on the Oppressed Peasantry™. I'm not tipping over into another 19th-century medievalism and saying medieval Europe was some sort of pre-industrial paradise. But we have higher wealth inequality now. Ancient Rome was a slave society. Treating medieval European societies as uniquely, unusually oppressive is, I think, harmful; it distorts past realities and obscures present ones.

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