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 - Galahad

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Galahad is the son of Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic, conceived when Elaine tricked Lancelot into thinking he was meeting and sleeping with Guinevere. He is the lone night to achieve the quest for the Holy Grail. As the chosen knight, he is allowed to sit in the Siege Perilous, the seat at the Round Table that is reserved for the Grail Knight. The first appearance of Galahad in medieval romance is in the thirteenth-century Vulgate Cycle. His coming is predicted in the first romance in the cycle, the Estoire del saint Graal, where he is said to be the ninth in the line of Nascien, who was baptized by Josephus, son of Joseph of Arimathea, and who was one of those who is said to have brought Christianity to Britain. Galahad remains the pre-eminent Grail Knight in Malory's Morte d'Arthur and in Tennyson's Idylls of the King. A shorter poem by Tennyson, "Sir Galahad," presented the popular image of the perfect knight whose "strength was as the strength of ten" because his "heart is pure." Despite this purity, it was said that, once he achieved the grail quest, he was so changed by what he saw he was never completely whole again.

[Majority snipped from The Camelot Project @ the University of Rochester (http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/galmenu.htm). Rewritten and supplemented to suit my preferences.]