Arthurian Traditions || Period Four || Tuesday, February 21

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe waited for a full fifteen minutes after the bell rang before she really found herself getting worried. Camulus never was late to class.

She sighed and then looked at the class.

"Professor Camulus has been detained, so that means you're stuck with me as your teacher again. Unfortunately, I left the Amazon leather gear back at my place." Phoebe went behind the desk and opened the middle drawer, looking for the lesson plans Camulus always painstakingly wrote out. Of course, she rarely managed to stick to a plan yet.

"Okay, it looks like you guys are going to spend the next two days learning about the knights of the round table... the ones that did not go with Monty Python on his search for the Holy Grail."

She frowned when she looked at the list, and then began writing the names on the board:

Gawain/Gwalchmei
Owein
Kay/Kei
Bedivere/Bedwyr
Launcelot
Tristan
Perceval/Peredur
Galahad

"Contrary to what you may have heard in class last week, Launcelot never had any problems reaching orgasm. His problem was that he reached it too many times with the King's wife, Guenevere." Phoebe sat on the edge of the desk. "Launcelot and Guenevere were this remarkable love story and they and King Arthur made this really intricate threesome. But then, jealous knights with sticks up their butts took issue with the threesome's happiness and the wimp of a king put Guenevere on trial for adultery and treason. Apparently sleeping with the king's boyfriend was considered to be treason." She shrugged. "Weird Shenanigans in King Arthur's court."

She looked at the class. "Your assignment today is to write 100 words on one of the knights on the board. Except, you can't do Launcelot. I did him already."

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Re: Pick Your Knight

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Gawain was King Arthur's nephew and was known to be a ladies man. His strength was dependent on the sun, which made him unreliable for long journeys, but a good, strong fighter during the day. Gawain was one of the earliest characters associated with King Arthur, along with Bedivere and Kay. In some Welsh translations, Gawain is also known as Gwalchmei and was in Culhwch and Olwen which was read in class earlier. Gawain's downfall was that he preferred material objects to spiritual pleasure. His intentions are always pure, and he is depicted as the friendly knight, but he never seems to get the picture that he has to give himself up to God to succeed. Eventually, he gets into a feud with Lancelot which results in all of Gawain's brothers being killed. Gawain died while fighting in battle against Mordred's forces.