It’s a tense scene, with both Arthur’s group and Mordred’s group expecting the other to double-cross. Naturally things go south; the catalyst here is a snake biting a knight’s ankle. This knight (Malory doesn’t specify if he’s one of Arthur’s … Continue reading →
On the eve of this planned joust/battle with Mordred, Arthur dream[s] a wonderful dream. He’s in a chair on a scaffold! It gets better. The scaffold is all connected to this big wheel assembly, and it’s slowly turning. As it … Continue reading →
Mordred’s still working on getting Guenever out of her tower when a messenger brings him word: Arthur, Gawaine, and their troops are landing at Dover. Mordred’s okay with this, though, because he has the common people on his side. Apparently … Continue reading →
We cut back to England and flash back to just after Arthur and Gawaine sail away with their sixty thousand troops. Mordred, Guenever, and all the other survivors of Book XX stand on the dock and watch them go. “Well, … Continue reading →
Meanwhile Arthur and Gawaine mobilize all of England to invade Benwick. It’s sixty thousand troops, which is the largest army we’ve seen in a while, on par with Arthur’s invasion force in Book V or the armies he and Team … Continue reading →
“Alas, that ever I bare crown upon my head!” cries Arthur, when he hears about the massacre. “The Round Table is ended, as I predicted. We were running on fumes ever since the Grail quest; now we’re done. Launcelot and … Continue reading →
Meanwhile Sir Mordred, whom Launcelot did not kill, limps off to Arthur. He has to go on horseback because, as you may have forgotten, all of this went down while King Arthur was away from Camelot on the pretext of … Continue reading →
Okay, so, at this point things go more or less how you’d expect. Launcelot heads over to Guenever’s chambers. Mordred and the other knights hide, then listen at the door. When it sounds like Launcelot and Guenever are in a … Continue reading →
Another year, another May, another season of romance and whimsy! Book XX opens with the stark contrast between all the happy lovers in Camelot (chief among them Guenever and Launcelot) and the two villains of our piece, Sir Agravaine and … Continue reading →
New story! Once upon a time there was a Hungarian knight named Sir Urre, who fought with a Spanish knight named Sir Alphegus, at Alphegus’s father’s tournament. Urre killed Alphegus, but Alphegus had a death-curse, on account of his mother … Continue reading →
