#medieval legend

[la-belle-histoire]

Guinevere and Iseult: Cartoon for Stained Glass, William Morris. 1862.

[briefbestiary]

A hot, shining-backed snake. The scitalis is known for having an arrangement of glittering scales upon its back, leaving its prey stunned from seeing the glistening creature.

[charnel-grounds]

José Casado del Alisal (1832–1886)

detail from the painting ‘La campana de Huesca o La leyenda del rey Monje’

oil on canvas, 1880

[davidgahan]

San Jorge Luchando Contra el Dragón: encontré un nuevo motivo artístico del que no sabía! de acuerdo a una leyenda, un dragón cobrara impuestos y otros tesoros de un pueblo, hasta que un día ordenó que le dieran a la princesa del lugar, y es cuando aparece San Jorge a matar al dragón. Los soldados en la Primera Cruzada sabían de ésta historia, y se propagó bajo el motif de caballerismo romántico hasta estar atado a las veneraciones a San Jorge el día de hoy.

Saint George Fighting The Dragon: I found a new art motif I didn't know about! According to legend, a dragon would collect taxes and other treasures from a town until one day the dragon demanded to be given the local princess, and that's when Saint George showed up to slay the dragon. Soldiers on the First Crusade knew this story, and it spread under the motif of romantic chivalry. It is tied to venerations of Saint George today.

Sources are on the Alt Text!

[victusinveritas]

While that's one theory, I think that the White Sox, as true arbiters of keeping the Faith (along with the Red Sox, Eagles, Cubs, and Mets), recognize Pope Joan, which is progressive of them, if not the most historically accurate according to modern scholarship (definitely made up by one dude and then picked up by other people and embroidered because that's what people have always done and will always do).

It's also possible the White Sox support the theory of the Jewish pope, Pope Andreas.

Which, sure.

[meisterdrucke]

Who trapped whom in Brocéliande? Gustave Doré’s engraving of Merlin and Viviane answers quietly: not with action, but with inevitability. He sits already tired, holding her; she looks up, not in love, but in calculation. The tree arches above them like a closing vault. From Alfred Tennyson’s *Viviane*: a spell learned, a fate accepted. He knows. He teaches her anyway. Doré turns the forest into a trap long before the magic begins. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Sir Tristram and La Belle Yseult Drinking the Love Potion

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828–1882)

Date: 1867

Medium: Watercolor

Collection: The Higgins Bedford Art Gallery, Bedford, England

Description

"Sir Tristram and La Belle Yseult Drinking the Love Potion" refers to a scene from the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde, where the knight Sir Tristram and the Irish princess Isolde (La Belle Yseult) accidentally drink a magical love potion while on a ship journey, causing them to fall deeply and uncontrollably in love, despite the fact that Isolde is destined to marry Tristram's uncle, King Mark of Cornwall, leading to a tragic and forbidden love affair

[nevi-nevidilu]

Melusine is my favorite medieval legend