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Prose Tristan: versions vs parts
It's less of a myth thing and more of terminology. It's not called "volume" because that would imply authorial or official continuity. Same with "part". Volumes and parts assume a whole, but Helie de ...
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Arthurian legend English and French sources
Well, yes and no.
Arthurian texts are divided into two groups: pre-Galfridian and Galfridian. The first category is older, dating at least to the Historia Brittonum, written in Wales in the early 9th ...
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What are some alternate names for characters of Arthurian legend?
Using any English/Welsh/Anglo, Teutonic, or Romance variant of the legendary names will likely have enough similarities to clue in your players quickly.
If you really want to disguise the nature of ...
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What are some alternate names for characters of Arthurian legend?
Maybe use earlier Welsh forms of the names where possible?
Such as Artur/Arthur, Merlin/Myrddin, Gwenhwyfar/Guinevere, Caer Lleon/Camelot?
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Did Bedwyr (Bedivere) ever have dark magic?
Insofar as the earliest native British traditions go, at least, it doesn't seem so.
Looking through some early Welsh texts (Culhwch ac Olwen, Pa Gur, the Trioedd Ynys Prydein, the Beddau stanzas, a ...
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What are some alternate names for characters of Arthurian legend?
While not a complete list by any means, these are some unfamiliar name variants I could think of off the top of my head.
Generally, all forms of Arthur are too close to the original to fool anyone. ...
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Is there any relationship between the Ladies of the Lake?
In that same Wikipedia link you provided, it says:
Malory dissociates Nimue from the general title of Lady of the Lake, so that when Sir Balin kills (one of) the Ladies of the Lake Nimue can ...
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What specific shapes does Merlin (or myrddin) assume in the various arthurian legends/stories?
The chronology of the main Arthurian text ranges from the 6th to the 15th century, the older ones rarely as complete texts. The Myrrdin myths appear for the first time in a rather unrelated way in the ...
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Omitted Books from Le Morte d'Arthur
As Gibet pointed out*, The Book of Elaine is just a cutting in the text of the book XVIII, precisely a cut in the middle of the chapter VIII, i.e. page 283 in the 1956 edition.
The same way, The Book ...
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In Vita Merlini, what did Merlin attribute his power of prophecy to?
The Holy Spirit seems the most likely answer. Geoffrey of Monmouth would have been familiar with the story of Penetecost, in which the Holy Spirit gives the apostles the ability to speak in different ...
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