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march to camelot 2025 #2: ruin
the tristan panciatichiano was crazy for this
EVERYONE GO READ IT RIGHT NOW!!!
“This is the cause, said Merlin: there shall never man handle this sword but the best knight of the world, and that shall be Sir Launcelot or else Galahad his son, and Launcelot with this sword shall slay the man that in the world he loved best, that shall be Sir Gawaine.”
| Adonis annua | Painful recollections
| Asphodel | My regrets follow you to the grave
I’ve been making gay knights (and ladies) collages on my phone at work
(Part two)
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please expand on the lancelot x gawain i keep seeing on your blog 🙏
okay sorry i took so long i decided to shower after you sent me this because i knew that if i started then i would never end up showering today. and then it was an unfinished routine so i had to lotion and brush my teeth and floss and do hair stuff too.
so, obviously, it's lancelot du lac and gawaine of orkney. both knights of the round table, etc etc. you know who they are. i hope. they're not exactly similar to their bbc merlin counterparts---lancelot is of noble birth in classic arthuriana, gawaine is arthur's nephew (though bbc merlin doesn't exactly...keep the familial relations that canon does), things like that---but i'd honestly say that their character personalities are similar enough that it's verging on acceptable! just as a reference point for you, i suppose.
gawaine has lost a fair fight only to six knights in his time, launcelot being one of them (Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Mallory. book IV, chapter XVIII) (the other five being sir tristram, sir bors, sir percevel, sir pelleas, and sir marhaus). he is mentioned to throw fights against lancelot because he loves losing to him (cannot remember the source for the life of me) and, of course, lancelot always notices when he does.
then there's this famous quote:
(vulgate II, p140) where launcelot tells galehaut (another man that he arguably has...something...going on with) that he would share with gawaine everything he loves, save guinevere, in order to have gawaine forever. gawaine then goes on to say that, essentially, he would wish to be the most beautiful woman so that lancelot would love him as a wife.
also, in Morte, which i don't have photos of because my copy is a physical book rather than a pdf like how i'm reading vulgate and i don't want to take photos with my laptop camera. there is this quote "and Launcelot with this sword shall slay the man that in the world he loves best, that shall be Sir Gawaine." which is engraved in the hilt of the red hilted sword, balin's sword that merlin encases in stone and which galahad, lancelot's son, eventually wields.
^this, also. from vulgate IV, p140. after launcelot accidentally kills gawaine's brother gareth (named here as gaheriet; all the orkneys have...many ways of spelling their names. look up a list of all of gawaine's names over history, i dare you) who was guarding guinevere's cell...he begs gawaine to forgive him and even promises to swear himself and all his men into subservience to gawaine if gawaine would only forgive him. "I want to be your companion just as I used to be." mhm...
and "I'll swear to you on 'relics that I didn't kill your brother Gaheriet intentionally" is a huge promise. swearing on a holy relic in such a deeply, fundamentally christian society was the vow that you could make. the reason why honour was so important in that time was because the grand majority of people were illiterate, so one's word was the most one could give, in the majority of situations! and here is lancelot, saying that he'll swear on a holy relic that he did not mean to kill gareth if it means gawaine will forgive him and love him again.
there is also, right before gawaine eventually dies (from a sword wound to the head from lancelot) he writes a letter to launcelot begging forgiveness for having been so horrible to lancelot before his death, and wishing he could see him before he dies, for he knows he won't live long.
And then when paper and ink was brought, then Gawaine was set up weakly by King Arthur, for he was shriven a little to-fore; and then he wrote thus, as the French book maketh mention: Unto Sir Launcelot, flower of all noble knights that ever I heard of or saw by my days, I, Sir Gawaine, King Lot's son of Orkney, sister's son unto the noble King Arthur, send thee greeting, and let thee have knowledge that the tenth day of May I was smitten upon the old wound that thou gavest me afore the city of Benwick, and through the same wound that thou gavest me I am come to my death-day. And I will that all the world wit, that I, Sir Gawaine, knight of the Table Round, sought my death, and not through thy deserving, but it was mine own seeking; wherefore I beseech thee, Sir Launcelot, to return again unto this realm, and see my tomb, and pray some prayer more or less for my soul. And this same day that I wrote this cedle, I was hurt to the death in the same wound, the which I had of thy hand, Sir Launcelot; for of a more nobler man might I not be slain. Also Sir Launcelot, for all the love that ever was betwixt us, make no tarrying, but come over the sea in all haste, that thou mayst with thy noble knights rescue that noble king that made thee knight, that is my lord Arthur; for he is full straitly bestead with a false traitor, that is my half-brother, Sir Mordred; and he hath let crown him king, and would have wedded my lady Queen Guenever, and so had he done had she not put herself in the Tower of London. And so the tenth day of May last past, my lord Arthur and we all landed upon them at Dover; and there we put that false traitor, Sir Mordred, to flight, and there it misfortuned me to be stricken upon thy stroke. And at the date of this letter was written, but two hours and a half afore my death, written with mine own hand, and so subscribed with part of my heart's blood. And I require thee, most famous knight of the world, that thou wilt see my tomb. And then Sir Gawaine wept, and King Arthur wept; and then they swooned both. And when they awaked both, the king made Sir Gawaine to receive his Saviour. And then Sir Gawaine prayed the king for to send for Sir Launcelot, and to cherish him above all other knights. (Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Mallory. book XXI, chapter II)
(vulgate IV, p139). honestly? no comment here. it speaks for itself. this bit is where the ship name remarkable comes from.
of course, this is by no means a comprehensive post, just moments i can remember off the top of my head. and a lot of this can be attributed to today's view of male homosociality and how it's changed since the middle ages, skewing our view of what could have been, by all means, a platonic relationship. however it is my personal belief and interpretation that they were in love <3 muah the end i hope you enjoyed. i tried my best to explain both story and cultural context the best i could without going into irrelevant detail...i hope this is enough!
oh and um @gwalch-mei do you have anything to add. as insane as i am, i trust you know more about them than me 🙏 no pressure, of course!
MY TIME HAS COME!!!! (hi jay :3) ok im just gonna start with my favorite remarkable line from knight of the cart!! (i dont have the page number atm sowwyyyyy) but lancelot says this when he thinks gawain abandoned him in the tower :(
“ah! how disastrously thy wheel has turned for me! thou hast mocked me shamefully! awhile ago i was up, but now i am down. i was well off of late but now, i am in a sorry state. not long since did thou smile on me but now thy eyes are filled with tears! alas poor wretch! why didst thou trust in her, when so soon she has deserted thee? behold! in a very little while she cast thee down from thy highest estate! fortune! it was wrong of thee to mock me thus! but what carest thou? thou carest not how it may turn out! ah sacred cross! oh holy ghost! how am i wretched and undone? how completely has my career been closed?
gawain! you who possess so much worth, and who’s goodness is unparalleled, surely i may well be amazed that you do not come to succor me! surely ye delay too long and are not showing courtesy. he ought indeed to receive your aid who you used to love so devotedly! for my part i may truly say that there is no lodging place or retreat on either side of the sea where i would not have searched for you! at least seven or ten years before finding you if i knew you to be in prison! but why do i thus torment myself? you do not care for me even though i take this trouble! the rustic is right when he says that it is hard nowadays to find a friend it is easy to rest the true friend in time of need. alas! more than a year has passed since i first was put inside this tower, i feel hurt gawain that you have so long deserted me! but doubtless you know nothing of all this, and i have no grounds for blaming you. yes! when i think of it, this must be the case! and i was very wrong to imagine such a thing! for i am confident that not for all the world contained would you and your men fail to release me from this trouble and distress, if you were aware of it! if for no other reason, you would be bound to do this out of love for me! your companion!” theyre also like. attached at the hip essentially in a good chunk of stories!! (go read the marvels of rigomer <333 love wins) like a VAST majority of lancelots quests gawain is usually also there!! also lancelot who frequently is disguised at tournaments so no one recognizes him, is without fail every damn time found out by gawain bc gawain recognizes his RIDING STYLE and just how he holds himself in general like. how much attention are you paying to him gawain???? gawain????????? answer us. they also have some kind of funny flirty banter in le morte when gawain gets kidnapped and lancelot saves him!! also gawains tied up while theyre being flirty. take that fact as you will :3 also this has already been brought up but the whole red hilted sword prophesy,,,,,,,, like what more could you want from a pairing omggggggggg <33 jay already brought up some VERY good points so theres not a whole lot else for me to add tbh like you did a great job w this!! but theres A LOT of VERY gay moments between both of them!! but to the person who asked im not sure how much arthuriana youve read but @queer-ragnelle has A LOT of scans of various texts and iirc @gringolet has some scans as well!! also hes posted this WONDERFUL collection of quotes. god theyre both so gay. so so so gay. i love doomed yaoi
Sire Gauvain et le Chevalier Vert (2014)
i wasn't kidding btw
bonus because this one is my personal favoeite that isnt talked about as often
I'll go into exile, barefoot and in rags, entirely alone. For 10 years if I die during that time, I forgive you for my death. But if I come back after 10 years after you and my lord the king are stil alive, I want to be your companion, just as I used to be.
- vulgate, death of arthur
hi why do you ship gawain with lancelot? not trying to start shit im just curious
God so this is a true fact but I’ve been thinking about them since sophomore year of high school (i'm a college sophomore now) so this is going to be lengthy and involved. But i think Lancelot and Gawain have a really interesting dynamic as well as a lot of support in text which i think makes them compelling.
hi why do you ship gawain with lancelot? not trying to start shit im just curious
God so this is a true fact but I’ve been thinking about them since sophomore year of high school (i'm a college sophomore now) so this is going to be lengthy and involved. But i think Lancelot and Gawain have a really interesting dynamic as well as a lot of support in text which i think makes them compelling.
Palamedes’ family in Arthuriana
Palamedes, oh, Sir Palamedes. We all know this man. Either he’s crying in front of wells or he’s on the hunt for the Questing Beast. The question is: how much do we know about his family? Some of us know that his father’s name is Esclabor and that he has a brother named Safir. In other Arthurian narratives, he has more family. As such, I did a deep dive by researching several different Arthuriana, three from the thirteenth century, one from the fifteen century, and two from the sixteenth century.
The first one that we’re exploring is “Guiron le Courtois” from the Palamedes romances, written in the 13th century by an unknown author. In the narrative, around the time of the crowning of Arthur as King, the Roman emperor throws a party because his daughter got married. The emperor is brought tributes of different kinds, including people to be his slaves. A young man between 24 to 30 years old called Esclabor, his wife, several of their children (including a two-month-old Palamedes, who is named after his grandfather) and Esclabor’s brother, Arsafar, are brought from Babylon to the Roman emperor (Cadioli & Lecomte, 2021; Löseth, 1890).
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