Legends Summarized: Arthur's Knights

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  • Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
  • There's roughly one thousand years of knight's tales of various kinds, so obviously this isn't ALL of them, but have a quick highlight reel of some of the wacky exploits our chivalrous heroes got up to back in Ye Olden Days!
    0:26 - Lancelot and Dolorous Gard
    2:06 - Parcival and Feirefiz
    3:41 - Galehaut, the Uncrowned King
    4:51 - Dinadan (aka Lancelot Wears a Dress)
    5:57 - Gawain and the Green Knight
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  • @TacComControl
    @TacComControl 2 года назад +2386

    "Galehaut's mother is a giantess..."
    "And his father?"
    "Brave. Very, very brave."

    • @CapnJigglypuff
      @CapnJigglypuff Год назад +67

      I'm talkin' bout a lady who's *actual-sized*

    • @TacComControl
      @TacComControl Год назад +57

      @@CapnJigglypuff I wonder if he goes up on her.

    • @Field_Agent_Quinn
      @Field_Agent_Quinn Год назад +55

      @@TacComControl maybe. I mean it is dark ages europe… so ya know, could be seen as dishonourable… but then again he is already bangin a giantess… yeah I’m gonna class this as a 50/50 chance.

    • @OscarRamirez-cd4qi
      @OscarRamirez-cd4qi Год назад +41

      Death by Snu-Snu

    • @TacComControl
      @TacComControl Год назад +6

      @@OscarRamirez-cd4qi I'm okay with this.

  • @talongreenlee7704
    @talongreenlee7704 5 лет назад +6018

    In the version I read, when Gawain returns, everyone is so impressed with his story and want to make him not feel bad, so they all cut themselves and get matching neck scars like the one the green knight gave him. Metal.

    • @Raivon
      @Raivon 4 года назад +686

      That's a bro move right there

    • @andrewrawlings5220
      @andrewrawlings5220 4 года назад +1002

      The version I heard was that the Green Girdle won't come off and he is forced to wear it forever to remind him of of his imperfect honour. However, after making fun of him for a while, the other knights decide to also wear green girdles so it just looks like something Arthur's knight's do. Bro move, less Metal.

    • @zusfrankenstein8561
      @zusfrankenstein8561 4 года назад +280

      Say what you will about Arthur's Knights, but you can't deny that they are the best of bros. Besides Lancelot. Fuck that guy.

    • @panicontheargo7034
      @panicontheargo7034 4 года назад +183

      Damn. Gawain started a trend.

    • @z.j.karasik9601
      @z.j.karasik9601 4 года назад +172

      @@zusfrankenstein8561 no. do NOT do that. anything BUT that.

  • @cevichegrace
    @cevichegrace 3 года назад +1768

    "So Feirefiz has black And white skin"
    He's a little confused but he got the spirit

    • @savybeanie
      @savybeanie 2 года назад +88

      Im sitting with of my parents *dont* make me laugh😂

    • @DDlambchop43
      @DDlambchop43 Год назад +21

      if you want a detailed telling of that story, look up Joseph Campbell's lectures on Arthurian legend.

    • @wren_.
      @wren_. Год назад +152

      I think it’s kind of cute. Like sure, the author was a little bit uneducated on how genetics work, but to be fair the study of genetics wouldn’t be invented for a couple of centuries. he’d probably never even been to Africa, maybe he just heard stories about someone with vitiligo and assumed that’s how being biracial worked

    • @Nzosaba_Matenge
      @Nzosaba_Matenge Год назад +33

      @@wren_. that how i thought it worked as a kid

    • @marcinswiecicki6713
      @marcinswiecicki6713 Год назад +43

      This must be some kind of logic made by a man that thought that breed dogs and thought that human skin must work like fur paterns on dogs. Becouse this is the only way it could mąkę sence.

  • @nikitakrim02
    @nikitakrim02 4 года назад +5428

    *Red* : Sir Gawain is probably the most boring of the Arthurs well-known knights/
    *also Red* : gives Gawain a third of video's time

    • @arianewinter4266
      @arianewinter4266 3 года назад +334

      He is just so adorable

    • @gawain_goat1409
      @gawain_goat1409 3 года назад +29

      :3

    • @ahorribleterribleperson
      @ahorribleterribleperson 3 года назад +601

      There was a legend of Gawain that I love and it basically was like:
      Some knight was claiming to kill Arthur (or was he going to kill gawain?) And he gives Arthur a riddle to solve, and Gawain was looking for the answer for the riddle, and he meets a very, VERY, *VERY* ugly (not being rude, its a plot point to the story) woman who has no luck getting married, but she knows the answer to the riddle but she would only give it to Gawain if he marries her (he necessarily want to because y'know, ugly), he did and he tells the riddle to Arthur who then tells it to the knight and the doesn't kill Arthur (it turns out that he and the woman might be siblings). Gawain got married (and was teased by his fellow knights) and he and his wife went to bed and then, *THE WOMAN TURNS BEAUTIFUL, DROP DEAD GORGEOUS,* the woman told him that she was cursed (I think she was ugly at day and beautiful at night?) And something about the curse has something to do with marriage (I don't know the specifics), Gawain now has the choices of his wife being ugly at morning and beautiful at knight, or beautiful at day and ugly at night. I don't remember what Gawain said, but I think he wanted to love her for her and not her appearance and BOOM she is permanently beautiful, because the true condition to her curse is to have a knight for a husband who truly loves her.
      (P.s I haven't read this story in years so I might be wrong about a lot of things, and I don't know if it's even part of the Original legends.)

    • @wannabehistorian371
      @wannabehistorian371 3 года назад +270

      @@ahorribleterribleperson “The Marriage of Gawain”. That story is really sweet.

    • @birb125
      @birb125 3 года назад +80

      @@ahorribleterribleperson thats really cute...

  • @BlueberryRockShooter
    @BlueberryRockShooter 5 лет назад +4535

    “Lancelot get out of the castle”
    “You’re not my king”
    “Lancelot I am your king now get out this instance”
    “I am in a castle and you are not”
    “Lancelot get down here”
    “Shan’t”

  • @peppyboi9710
    @peppyboi9710 4 года назад +6653

    Headcanon: gawain's superpower is that he's really good at kissing, the green knight was gonna kill him but after six of those bad boys how could he kill him.

    • @imtootiredforthis9776
      @imtootiredforthis9776 4 года назад +475

      I appreciate this headcanon

    • @raymondhamill8421
      @raymondhamill8421 4 года назад +360

      Gawain must be one hell of a kisser

    • @dylanchouinard6141
      @dylanchouinard6141 4 года назад +203

      Gawain was getting his kisses in

    • @emperior5710
      @emperior5710 4 года назад +184

      I guess you can say Bertilak had
      Sun kissed skin!

    • @kl7451
      @kl7451 4 года назад +148

      Or he’s a giant green gay dude. Or both

  • @FirstLast-cg2nk
    @FirstLast-cg2nk 3 года назад +1392

    "Your romance *WILL* be the stuff of fairy tales."
    "Is that a promise or an ultimatum?"
    *"YES."*

  • @BigBossTussBall
    @BigBossTussBall 4 года назад +2582

    Green Knight: heh, I bet this guy will sleep with my wife and lie about it.
    Gawain: *only barely kisses his wife in order to be polite but also maintain honor*
    Green Knight: huh. Maybe I won't decapitate him?

    • @aliasofgray2854
      @aliasofgray2854 4 года назад +264

      I saw it as the couple being polyamorus or swingers. Which I found cute.

    • @lkcdarzadix6216
      @lkcdarzadix6216 4 года назад +220

      @@aliasofgray2854 the green knight is both husband and wife

    • @masenyaolivia9705
      @masenyaolivia9705 3 года назад +87

      @@lkcdarzadix6216 kinky😏

    • @arianewinter4266
      @arianewinter4266 3 года назад +45

      Also, je die not lie about it and he gave "back" to the husband ^^

    • @scottgrey3337
      @scottgrey3337 3 года назад +183

      Gawain: *Kisses the Green Knight too*
      Green Knight: Definitely NOT decapitating him

  • @PainCausingSamurai
    @PainCausingSamurai 4 года назад +2415

    I always felt that Gawain marked the transition from "idealized self-insert male fantasy knights" to "flawed everyman with relatable human drama.

    • @FortunateSon-mo9zi
      @FortunateSon-mo9zi 3 года назад +183

      Ah yes, the few times Arthurian characters WEREN'T just power fantasy.

    • @alexanderwalls5267
      @alexanderwalls5267 2 года назад +16

      @Domagoj Čović Jesus calm down😂

    • @pedroportela6476
      @pedroportela6476 2 года назад +7

      @Domagoj Čović you know, insulting other people by calling them braindead is only really an effective insult when your own comment isn't the most braindead shit in the whole comment section.

    • @jamescook5783
      @jamescook5783 10 месяцев назад +17

      Gwain is the Spider-Man of Knights.

  • @janerecluse4344
    @janerecluse4344 5 лет назад +4518

    I just love the idea of a big, strapping knight being swept off his feet by a massive half-giant who thinks of him as a precious and dainty little creature.

    • @emapocubayova4763
      @emapocubayova4763 5 лет назад +238

      So cute, right? XD
      Just precious

    • @Canido19
      @Canido19 4 года назад +190

      I ship it!

    • @victormunhozzz
      @victormunhozzz 4 года назад +79

      Sounds hot

    • @Crows4Hoes
      @Crows4Hoes 4 года назад +44

      Taso Canido lets ship it like fedex together XD

    • @williamwhitehouse8741
      @williamwhitehouse8741 4 года назад +27

      So basically Vulcan from if the emperor had a text to speech device

  • @ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel
    @ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel Год назад +522

    3:31
    Got to say, I love how this writer person who doesn't even know what a bi-racial person looks like, still wrote this foreign knight to be one and also to be super cool, strong and adored by the entire court. That is so unexpected for someone from so far back.

    • @Attaxalotl
      @Attaxalotl 7 месяцев назад +83

      I don’t remember where I heard this, so absolutely take it with a grain of salt; but at the time racism was more of a local thing (see: the millennia long rivalry between the Brits and French) and full on “your skin is this color so you’re inherently beneath me” racism didn’t really start until the African slave trade got big.

    • @ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel
      @ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@Attaxalotl Seems unlikely, to be honest, given that colonialism was around much longer than that.

    • @Attaxalotl
      @Attaxalotl 7 месяцев назад +16

      @@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel I mean "got big" as in early-mid 1500s. 300 years between then and the civil war is a really long time; and racism is still an issue today

    • @miguelvelez7221
      @miguelvelez7221 6 месяцев назад +23

      ​@@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegelSure enough colonialism has an ancient pedigree but there's a big difference in how racism played into the truly ancient past and post "Enlightenment" era of European exploration and colonization. As stated a lot of animosity between groups that used anything close to what we would recognize as racist bigotry as justification was aimed at people close by geographically speaking. You also have to take account of how diverse the populations of many of the ancient Empires and Kingdoms could be. The precursors to and the heirs of the Roman Empire alone over the course of thousands of years expanded and contracted over vast swaths of land across Europe and North Africa and most locations that touched the Mediterranean Sea. That's a grab bag of Ethnicities, Religions and social structures. Add in trade beyond borders and there's way more reason to keep ethnic based rivalry at bay for these large political powers. Even taking slavery into account it usually was not race based. It also could be a more complex situation than what Americans think with our ideas of slavery as an institution in a society usually based on our experience of it in our history. Back then while slavery could indeed encompass people taken against their will from either raids in the hinterlands or from conquest of new territory there's also evidence of people willingly entering into slavery for periods, getting essentially room and board in exchange for specialized labor of some kind, ranging from skilled construction to education of a household's children.
      Slavery was "multiethnic" which... It's still slavery but, it was "colorblind" so... Yay, I guess? It was a situation where many of these Empires just had a huge mix of people to administer and "slaves" came from all over. Was there chauvinistic aspects to these societies? Yeah, but it was not based on some assumptions about skin tone equating to superiority.

    • @raph3699
      @raph3699 4 месяца назад +4

      @@Attaxalotlback then it was mostly discrimination based on religion, not so much ethnicity

  • @Woodcocce
    @Woodcocce 2 года назад +1526

    The real "Best Knight" in Arthurian Legend is Galehaut's father, bedding a Giantess. Absolute champion, truly an inspiration for all.

    • @solarflare4047
      @solarflare4047 Год назад +139

      not to mention in some sources he actually killed the giantess's previous husband and conquered THE ENTIRE ISLAND OF GIANTS. (shame he fell to Tristan though)

    • @samuelwithers2221
      @samuelwithers2221 Год назад +58

      @@solarflare4047 Now THAT'S what I need a Netflix original series about

    • @joshholland8564
      @joshholland8564 Год назад +17

      Must be related to thor

    • @Nzosaba_Matenge
      @Nzosaba_Matenge Год назад +13

      @@joshholland8564 wouldn't we have to give credit to Odin's father for sleeping with a giant

    • @joshholland8564
      @joshholland8564 Год назад +3

      @@Nzosaba_Matenge oh yeah right haha

  • @alexemy2463
    @alexemy2463 5 лет назад +2407

    Impulsive Lancelot, his big gay crush Galehaut, his biracial pagan half-brother Feirefiz, and his crossdressing trickster friend Dinadan really sounds like something Rick Riordan would write, and it’s glorious

    • @adellefletcher
      @adellefletcher Год назад +178

      If Uncle Rick actually writes that, I would... honestly I don't know what i'd do

    • @plantmage9850
      @plantmage9850 Год назад +118

      I'd read the hell out of it

    • @joshuabrough2409
      @joshuabrough2409 Год назад +140

      Feirefiz is Percival's half-brother, he's not related to Lancelot whatsoever.

    • @maceyhenry2755
      @maceyhenry2755 Год назад +15

      I NEED THIS SERIES

    • @b3rz3rk3r9
      @b3rz3rk3r9 Год назад +29

      Had an idea for a Manga epic based in Arthurian myth but I shot it down. It'd mainly focus on Gawain, Ferefeiz, Galehaut, Dinadan and Gareth going about doing knightly stuff near the beginning of Launcelot and Geinevere's little escapade. Hell, I even had the udea to change the story and have Arthur morbidly and Depressingly follow through with the law after Galahad is revealed and bears shame from his parent's betrayal (yeah, it' be a whole thing of him being raised by a benevolent group of Fae but that was another thing.) Even have it to where Arthur could barely rule the kingdom after executing his wife and best friend; barely able to move from the throne.

  • @victoriatran2262
    @victoriatran2262 6 лет назад +2862

    “Lancelot get down here!”
    *”S H A N T”*

    • @fallenqrow528
      @fallenqrow528 5 лет назад +123

      "Don't force my Hand"
      "Neigh!"

    • @bigpigeon2384
      @bigpigeon2384 5 лет назад +87

      „Don’t make me come up there“
      „Shwill“

    • @hoodie6663
      @hoodie6663 5 лет назад +48

      Now leave or I will be forced to taunt you a second time

    • @nixtheclause9984
      @nixtheclause9984 4 года назад +61

      *YOUR MOTHER WAS A HAMSTER AN YOUR FATHER SMELT OF ELDERBERRIES*

    • @QueerAndHunger
      @QueerAndHunger 4 года назад +29

      @@nixtheclause9984 *_HOW DARE YOU?!_*

  • @EvilTurtleSlash
    @EvilTurtleSlash 4 года назад +1416

    After hearing the Dinadan-Lancelot story, I can only imagine Lancelot is either kind of androgynous in appearance or we can add surprisingly good at makeup to his list of things he's great at.

    • @foldabotZ
      @foldabotZ 3 года назад +135

      I would not be surprised if there was some modern interpretation that makes him a tomboy in disguise or just straight-up is one without a disguise. Is there one?

    • @cordyceps182
      @cordyceps182 3 года назад +74

      @@foldabotZ There might be, but Lancelot is probably the knight depicted as masculine the most.

    • @janmelantu7490
      @janmelantu7490 3 года назад +49

      @@cordyceps182 Who say Tomboys aren't masculine?

    • @professorbutters
      @professorbutters 2 года назад +154

      Nah, he’s just French.

    • @falconstudios146
      @falconstudios146 2 года назад +22

      @@janmelantu7490 yeah, that's the whole point of Tomboy.

  • @juanrojas1935
    @juanrojas1935 2 года назад +592

    So, according to Wikipedia, Galehaut died in solitude, longing for Lancelot. Eventually, when Lancelot died, he was buried next to Galehaut. I don't know how to handle this.

    • @rommdan2716
      @rommdan2716 Год назад +43

      Crying helps

    • @sladewilson2753
      @sladewilson2753 10 месяцев назад +32

      They're very good friends

    • @viniciusvyller9458
      @viniciusvyller9458 9 месяцев назад +46

      Mix their ashes in the same urn already

    • @RainbowGod666
      @RainbowGod666 9 месяцев назад +16

      To all historians/mytho-historians reading this
      YOU CAN SAY THAT TWO PEOPLE WEW GAY THEY WERENT CLOSE FRENS THEY WERE IN LOVE (nightmare-inducing tumblr-esque wail)

    • @Nana-ng1kz
      @Nana-ng1kz 9 месяцев назад +17

      Make me wonder
      Lancelot must be inspired by Achilles
      and Galehaut is inspired by Patroclus (somehow)

  • @changyang1498
    @changyang1498 5 лет назад +4721

    Wait a minute...Arthur’s knights are just slice of life anime characters!!!

    • @Aldona_koi
      @Aldona_koi 4 года назад +235

      they are in an anime, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut not so slice of lifey

    • @unkindled6410
      @unkindled6410 4 года назад +234

      @@Aldona_koi well, shirou got a cooking slice of life spin off. who knows if they decide to make one with arthuria and her dumbshit knights and bedi.

    • @OTheDetective
      @OTheDetective 4 года назад +94

      @@unkindled6410 thank you for not including Bedi and that dumb shit Knights thing, something tells me the dumbest one of them all is Gawain

    • @Suesserto
      @Suesserto 4 года назад +16

      Cursed Royal Studios and he’s fucjpking annoying in the game

    • @anadaere6861
      @anadaere6861 4 года назад +12

      @@Suesserto chad knight

  • @Scientin
    @Scientin 4 года назад +4164

    Honestly I love Gawain's story because he serves as an excellent foil to the other knights. In a group filled with such (apparent) paragons as Lancelot, Percival, and Gallahad, and with other knights with things like great humor and special powers and romantic feeling, Gawain is refreshingly grounded and relatable to the audience. Even though he is deeply flawed, he always tries his best to do what is right and live up to the ideals of Camelot. Frankly I'm surprised more Arthur-inspire series haven't had Gawain as the main character, or at least the audience point-of-reference character.

    • @fredfry5100
      @fredfry5100 4 года назад +251

      Think of it this way. Many cartoons/anime have a 5 man band or larger group of protagonists. In any such group, you need and everyman. The everyman is that character who has no societal rejections or benefits, prophesies super skills or paragonyness. They are just the everyday joe shmo hero of their respective absurd setting (as opposed to the actual everyman that makes your general crowd of screaming civilians)..

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy 4 года назад +81

      He does have sun powers.

    • @ddcs0s
      @ddcs0s 3 года назад +55

      Well if you think about it he the basis of a heros journey he from the very beginning isn't perfect but thru good moral and pure bravery overcomes incredible odds that anyone else would have failed to do
      Heros journey is the basis of almost all modern literature and film

    • @adamlis9321
      @adamlis9321 3 года назад +48

      I have seen a trailer for Gawain and the Green Knight, with Dev Patel as the titular knight. It looks interesting and I hope it displays the humanity he has, when compared to the other more superhuman knights of the round table.

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 3 года назад +69

      He is not deeply flawed. His only stumble in the basically impossible task was hiding the girdle. The poem makes sure to describe his virtues as impeccable. But even someone like him isn't perfect, and it's fine. Gawain is a foil to other knights specifically for not having their major flaws - and that kind of makes him boring. Still not as vanilla as Gary Stu Galahad. Also Gawain is described as the youngest knight of the round table AND second-strongest after Arthur, and has the OTHER sword from the Lady of the Lake, Galatine, which holds the power of the sun (Excalibur has the power of the Earth and moon for some reason). He also is the worst damn boss in the Camelot singularity! xD

  • @beoweasel
    @beoweasel 4 года назад +268

    I find it amusing that Lancelot doesn't get to be buried next to Guinevere, because he must be interred at Joyous Guard, but he IS buried next to Galehaut.

    • @lostaccount8222
      @lostaccount8222 2 года назад +45

      Bromance before romance as they say you know

    • @RainbowGod666
      @RainbowGod666 9 месяцев назад

      _😏i have seen enough LGBTQ shit on the internet to know where this is goiiing~😏_

    • @GaiusIntrepidus
      @GaiusIntrepidus 3 месяца назад +7

      ​@@lostaccount8222that B is real silent as the rainbow flash

  • @NeinKyori
    @NeinKyori 3 года назад +423

    Gawain aka the "All my knight friends are so wacky and weird that I'm the only normal person beside Bedivere, who may or may not practice dark arts"

    • @joshuabrough2409
      @joshuabrough2409 Год назад +10

      Why do you not like Sir Lucan? He seems pretty normal to me.

    • @TaliesintheBard-wd2sz
      @TaliesintheBard-wd2sz 3 месяца назад +7

      After Bedivere demonstrates his superstrength, Gawain feels out of place, so he uses a chessboard as a shield, channels the power of the sun, dates a sorceress who turns into a mermaid, marries a stranger, and writes a deathbed letter in blood to prove he isn’t normal.
      Meanwhile, sitting alone in a corner somewhere, there’s Lucan, normal Lucan, who will one day die via overzealous hug because there’s no place for normal in Camelot.
      (For the record, I’m very fond of Lucan. He just does his best and it’s usually enough.)

    • @mikecohen7716
      @mikecohen7716 2 месяца назад +2

      @@joshuabrough2409 Wasn't he a werewolf? Or there another werewolf Knight. Because there was at least one werewolf at the Round Table.

    • @claran3616
      @claran3616 29 дней назад +1

      I thought the werewolves name started with an m?

    • @TaliesintheBard-wd2sz
      @TaliesintheBard-wd2sz 25 дней назад +1

      @@claran3616 You’re probably thinking of Marrok or Melion, both Arthurian werewolves with similar (probably related) stories.

  • @maskedmaniac315
    @maskedmaniac315 5 лет назад +2664

    Galehaut refused a crown until he could conquer Arthur's kingdom. Galehaut is also the one who help set up Lancelot and Guenevere.
    Playing the long game I see, you clever half giant.

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 4 года назад +90

      Putting bets he's the son of Diane and king
      In seven deadly sins
      So that makes
      Tristan( half-demon( meliodas) and half- angel( Elizabeth))
      Lancelot( half fairy( Elaine) and half immortal( ban the undead)
      Galehaut ( half fairy half Giant)
      It also makes Galahaut and Lancelot cousins

    • @pedrorosa3300
      @pedrorosa3300 3 года назад +17

      Joseph Misinec it kinda reveal that the son of Diana and King is a girl. Art by the autor.

    • @silentspirit8923
      @silentspirit8923 2 года назад +10

      @@anarchomando7707 I did not expect to find this comment.

    • @d.n5287
      @d.n5287 2 года назад +15

      Lanister level political mind games occuring here.

    • @Death089100
      @Death089100 Год назад +5

      @@anarchomando7707 Seven deadly sins is unbearably mid

  • @entr3_nou5
    @entr3_nou5 5 лет назад +1300

    6:58
    Green Knight: ‘tis but a scratch!
    Gawain: A scratch?! Your head’s off!
    Green Knight: No it isn’t.
    Gawain: Well what’s that, then?! * points to head *
    Green Knight: I’ve had worse.

    • @GhostBear3067
      @GhostBear3067 3 года назад +54

      *points to body while arguing with a severed head.
      Green Knight: "I have had worse."
      Gawain: "YOU LIE!"

    • @walterlyzohub8112
      @walterlyzohub8112 3 года назад +20

      A fellow person who also likes Monty Python. 😊

    • @wannabehistorian371
      @wannabehistorian371 3 года назад +5

      My thoughts exactly lol.

    • @ArkaSaurusRex218
      @ArkaSaurusRex218 3 года назад +18

      I still have my hands you know? I can still continue to duel! Where are you going? Come back here!

    • @cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967
      @cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967 3 года назад +2

      713th like!

  • @davidmckay6453
    @davidmckay6453 3 года назад +1012

    "What is there to say about Gawain?"
    1. He took part in the Quest of the White Hart, the first of the Round Table quests along with Sir Tor, a cow farmer's son who became a knight when he killed a monstrous lion before the whole court with only a sword and no armor, and Sir Pellinor, who was the first of Arthur's enemies to become his friend.
    2. His title was "The Knight Who Served All Women".
    3. He was the first of his five brothers to swear allegiance to King Arthur, the last being Sir Gaheris.
    4. He fought against eight robber knights and struck all of them dead except one who pleaded for mercy.
    5. He married one of the Nine Ladies of Avalon (Ragnall).

    • @SomeCrusader
      @SomeCrusader 3 года назад +149

      Just like France's military history, Gawain's accomplishments have been ignored. I know those feels, bro. *Embraces fellow knight out of solidarity*

    • @hetalianotaku7103
      @hetalianotaku7103 2 года назад +234

      Also he marries Ragnelle even though she's an ugly old hag to save Arthur's life. And when it turns out she's actually quite beautiful, and she asks him whether he'd have her be ugly at night or day, he instead asks her what SHE wants (in accordance to the answer to the riddle of what do women want the most: self-determination) and Ragnelle's curse is lifted permanently.

    • @designateddm8021
      @designateddm8021 2 года назад +60

      Also one thing I like is that in the original Mordred is one of his brothers and when he then takes over Camelot he kills the other three brothers leaving Gawain left to watch as his evil brother as he does this but then betrays their uncle and forced to watch as the two fight and after Arthur is took to Avalon with both of his aunts, Gwen and Morgan, is left to pick up the pieces as best as he could.

    • @KurtAngle89
      @KurtAngle89 2 года назад +28

      @@designateddm8021 oh, i didn't know it, but it makes sense, both he and Mordred were Arthur's nephews

    • @maucazalv903
      @maucazalv903 2 года назад +1

      I'm not sure which of these points: 1, 4, 5, ais my favorite(?

  • @thornless_flora
    @thornless_flora 4 года назад +631

    It kind of scares me that Lancelot is so good at taking full on KNIGHTS off of horses while wearing a dress. How often does he do this? When did he learn how to do that? WHY

    • @mide2476
      @mide2476 3 года назад +51

      Their is a reasonable why he's called Mr. Prefect/ a Gary Sue.

    • @wannabehistorian371
      @wannabehistorian371 3 года назад +26

      @@mide2476 That’s Galahad.

    • @mide2476
      @mide2476 3 года назад +35

      @@wannabehistorian371
      Your right, I guess it would be better to Lancelot, Gary Sue Lite.

    • @wannabehistorian371
      @wannabehistorian371 3 года назад +52

      @@mide2476 I mean Lancelot at least has the whole cheating thing. Also he tends to have bouts of berserker rage which cause him way more trouble than anything. And he’s generally a bit nuts.

    • @Amy_the_Lizard
      @Amy_the_Lizard Год назад +33

      ...Why wouldn't you learn how to yank knights off horses while wearing a dress if given the opportunity to do so? It's a bit niche, but still a cool party trick

  • @elijahg.1891
    @elijahg.1891 5 лет назад +1326

    “He accidentally stumbles into a d&d module”
    I think that describes about half of the fantasy stories about knights in shining armor.

    • @camdenthompson4307
      @camdenthompson4307 3 года назад +15

      ever heard of The Black Cauldron, things the perfect D&D module

    • @alexdiaz155
      @alexdiaz155 3 года назад +19

      Have you ever read Don Quijote? Every chapter is it’s own one shot.

    • @KurtAngle89
      @KurtAngle89 2 года назад +8

      Or vice versa, obviously. Most games have took inspirations from legends (yeah, you don't say😉)

    • @vibechecker3168
      @vibechecker3168 Год назад +3

      It'd be funny if in a setting there's a knight who's sick and tired of every single location he goes needing to be saved. "Sir knight please save us from the vile badger of bunberry" "Goddammit I just wanted a drink!"

    • @aaronharkins4331
      @aaronharkins4331 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@vibechecker3168just MOVE.

  • @edslushie570
    @edslushie570 4 года назад +3810

    The real tragedy is that if Galehaut had just confessed his feelings for Lancelot, perhaps none of the bad stuff would have even happened.

    • @MimikyuCookie
      @MimikyuCookie 4 года назад +350

      Now I want to see THAT interpretation of the story!

    • @moxiehokutika911
      @moxiehokutika911 3 года назад +51

      Cool, yes, but also explain: What does one healthy relationship in this entire mythos have to do with avoiding the strife of camlin?

    • @moxiehokutika911
      @moxiehokutika911 3 года назад +26

      Oh wait nevermind I get it now.

    • @ForeverFallingCrescent
      @ForeverFallingCrescent 3 года назад +20

      @@MimikyuCookie you know what? I'm on it!

    • @redarcher3599
      @redarcher3599 3 года назад +61

      after Red shed light on the fact that Lancelot is just a freaking french nerd's self insert oc. I can never see him the same way and knowing the dumb shit he does, kinda dislike him.

  • @lemmetalkaboutthis
    @lemmetalkaboutthis 4 года назад +623

    their dad: a wandering knight
    their dad: having children with multiple people
    me, a dnd nerd: so, a bard

    • @FortunateSon-mo9zi
      @FortunateSon-mo9zi 3 года назад +43

      He must've shredded What is Love on that lute because damn...

    • @bubbykins4864
      @bubbykins4864 2 года назад

      You're actually an Assholes and Stereotype Enforcers (A&SE) nerd. Nothing about Dungeons and Dragons says that your rogue has to be a no-gooder bandit, or that your warrior has to make a down-to-earth warrior look like Superman in terms of power diversity, or that your barbarian has to be as dumb as a rock, or that your bard has to be Zeus. Zeus would be a sorcerer (is a god because of the Titans) or warlock (got his thunderbolts from the Cyclopes), for the sake of Kronos!

  • @almond_orchid8185
    @almond_orchid8185 4 года назад +498

    “BUT WHAT IF IT WAS AN AFRICAN SWALLOW?”
    *coconut sounds*

    • @moxiehokutika911
      @moxiehokutika911 4 года назад +16

      Monty Python, nice!

    • @sirenalexander3877
      @sirenalexander3877 4 года назад +13

      Kat Reeves Kroff We are No Longer The knights who say KNEE

    • @bees4106
      @bees4106 4 года назад +17

      "African swallows are non-migratory!"

    • @hisnotsolonely2961
      @hisnotsolonely2961 3 года назад +5

      @@sirenalexander3877 *Panic Noise*

    • @Dovey12
      @Dovey12 2 года назад +1

      @@sirenalexander3877 NI! NI?? NIIIII!!!! NI! NI!

  • @jorgeamadosoriaramirez8953
    @jorgeamadosoriaramirez8953 6 лет назад +2105

    "unlock with premium christianity" lol

  • @hannahrohlfing7898
    @hannahrohlfing7898 6 лет назад +2338

    Dinadan is probably my favorite knight because he’s just like “why am I here?” “Should I really be a knight?” “Eh whatevs, I’ll just prank everybody.”

    • @benjaminklaassen4722
      @benjaminklaassen4722 5 лет назад +110

      Yeah, he strikes me more as the Camelot court jester sort-of guy than an actual knight.

    • @miamafalda1118
      @miamafalda1118 5 лет назад +51

      The OG Mercutio tbh

    • @sflaningam7680
      @sflaningam7680 5 лет назад +87

      @@benjaminklaassen4722 Yeah, I think he would have been if not for the whole born to nobility thing. Dinadan: I just want to be a comedian dad! father: you're going to be knight and that's final. Now go kill something!

    • @VictoriaMeira7
      @VictoriaMeira7 5 лет назад +26

      He'd probably get along well with Hermes tbh

    • @SobiTheRobot
      @SobiTheRobot 5 лет назад +47

      @@benjaminklaassen4722 Arthur had a court jester, Dagonet. He was the butt of everyone's jokes. They also knighted him as a joke.

  • @oddish3152
    @oddish3152 Год назад +151

    I love how all the knights seem like such a big chaotic friend group whose idea of hanging out is going on quests and have fun

    • @rommdan2716
      @rommdan2716 Год назад +7

      Literally me and the boys

    • @anewchallenger2825
      @anewchallenger2825 10 месяцев назад +5

      Like playing DnD with 8 Knights in the party 😂

    • @justinokraski3796
      @justinokraski3796 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@anewchallenger2825oops all fighters

  • @jenniferschillig3768
    @jenniferschillig3768 4 года назад +217

    My favorite Gawain story, more so than the Green Knight, is Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (or Dame Ragnelle, depending on the retelling). It's actually an Arthur-ized retelling of an old folktale, that showed up as the Wife of Bath's Tale in Canterbury Tales. A Black Knight blocks Arthur's path in the forest (sound familiar?) and tells him his life is forfeit unless he can answer, in (a day/a month/a year) the riddle: what does every woman want? Arthur asks every woman he knows, from his queen to his serving maids, but gets different answers. But just as he's about to admit defeat, he meets an ugly hag in the forest, who tells him she'll give him the answer if he promises her that one of his knights will marry her of his own free will. So, when the Black Knight confronts Arthur again, Arthur has the answer ready: every woman wants the right to make her own decisions! The Black Knight disappears in a puff of smoke, and Arthur is relieved...except for that little matter that one of his knights will have to marry this horrible-looking woman. But when he breaks the news to his knights, Sir Gawain volunteers, and the wedding proceeds. Gawain steels himself for the wedding night...but when he enters the bedchamber, waiting for him is the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. She explains that when she refused the Black Knight's hand in marriage, he cursed her to remain an ugly hag until an honest knight agreed to marry her. Now she will only be ugly for half the day, so which would he prefer--at night, when they are alone together, or during the day, when she will be seen by others? Gawain finally tells her it's up to her, unknowingly applying the truth of the riddle: the right to make her own decisions. With that, the spell is broken completely and permanently, and they live happily ever after.

    • @sarascarpati887
      @sarascarpati887 Год назад +19

      that's nice!

    • @ivyinkwell1754
      @ivyinkwell1754 10 месяцев назад +25

      This is three years old but I just want to say that this story warmed my heart and restored my faith in humanity, and I'm so glad you shared this.

    • @chillobsidian9592
      @chillobsidian9592 8 месяцев назад +12

      This is actually really, really good. My respect to Gawain went up so much now.

    • @dorcasmutton6335
      @dorcasmutton6335 6 месяцев назад +7

      Any story can be improved with the power of Gawain

    • @rikupaivinen655
      @rikupaivinen655 21 день назад +2

      I bet The other knights never believed arthur about a women's looks after this and other started asking HIM to arrange them to marry.

  • @ericemanwu
    @ericemanwu 5 лет назад +943

    My favorite one of Arthur's knights is Sir Gareth. Who rose to knighthood by defeating 4 knights of 4 different colors and was nicknamed "knight of the kitchen" because he asked for food for a year when he arrived at Camelot rather than armor.

    • @vipertooth123
      @vipertooth123 4 года назад +206

      It has been pointed out a lot in the coments, but, man, does Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table sound like a fucking anime or what?

    • @b3rz3rk3r9
      @b3rz3rk3r9 4 года назад +50

      Crap. I could not remember the guy's name, but I liked him almost as much as Tristram, given how he went from chef to knight in 4 Fights.

    • @AhavaMath
      @AhavaMath 4 года назад +35

      @@vipertooth123 I demand that this be made immediately

    • @crawlingboy
      @crawlingboy 4 года назад +11

      @@vipertooth123 yes yes they do

    • @faerie5926
      @faerie5926 4 года назад +7

      @@vipertooth123 I'd watch that for sure XD

  • @user-og9dw8nv8g
    @user-og9dw8nv8g 5 лет назад +438

    How does Arthur even control his Knights in one round table holy shit

    • @arianewinter4266
      @arianewinter4266 3 года назад +110

      He does not, obviously

    • @ethanmacleod1721
      @ethanmacleod1721 3 года назад +60

      Like when he doesn’t want to quest for the holy grail but all of his knight’s accidentally starts a crusade anyways

    • @whytho1534
      @whytho1534 3 года назад +22

      Plus,why does he even need that many Knights like is he paranoid or something

    • @Your_Native_Mothman
      @Your_Native_Mothman 3 года назад +30

      @@whytho1534 maybe he just likes having friends?? Idk

    • @seanjohnson5706
      @seanjohnson5706 3 года назад +12

      @@whytho1534 they are essentially less generals and more like officers of an army

  • @renatocorvaro6924
    @renatocorvaro6924 3 года назад +294

    It always bugs me how modern retellings frame Arthurian Legend as some kind of low magic/non-magical setting, when Arthur's Knights did all sorts of crazy magical crap and there was more than one straight up wizard involved.

    • @Pandie2828
      @Pandie2828 2 года назад +21

      Maybe you should try Merlin that show definitely incorporated a lot of magic

    • @quillaja
      @quillaja Год назад +18

      At least one modern retelling framed it as a battle between the US Air Force against the jerky faction of an ancient race that ascended to become energy beings and their zealous christian-analog army.

    • @SalreixVonOtsuu
      @SalreixVonOtsuu Год назад +4

      @@quillaja what.

    • @zomegaexalpha4708
      @zomegaexalpha4708 Год назад +4

      ​@@quillaja where is this from

    • @Destrark151
      @Destrark151 9 месяцев назад

      Stargate later seasons.@@zomegaexalpha4708

  • @reasonpeason847
    @reasonpeason847 4 года назад +504

    Galehaut is courtly loving on Lancelot. Like if you move the "courtly love" peg over a space, that's what you get.

    • @gemavaliente7675
      @gemavaliente7675 3 года назад +58

      New headcanon: a bunch of knights and court people are in a big poly courtly romance

    • @francescapatti2934
      @francescapatti2934 3 года назад +104

      Actually Galehaut is also pursuing the "exaltation of the beloved lady" thing wherein Lancelot is basically the only thing he cares about so much so that he is willing to STOP HIS CONQUEST and to see him happy SETS HIM UP WITH GUENEVIER! Like damn

    • @raixira27
      @raixira27 2 года назад +8

      Maybe also why Dinadan teases him with a fish.

    • @wren_.
      @wren_. Год назад +5

      so does that mean Lancelot is courtly loving Galehaut AND Guinevere?

    • @fictional-girl_05
      @fictional-girl_05 Год назад +3

      Courtly love but make it gay

  • @willmcclory1962
    @willmcclory1962 4 года назад +2503

    Not gonna lie, "The Uncrowned King" would make a fantastic Dark Souls boss name.
    Also, love your videos, even though I just found 'em.

    • @dairoleon2682
      @dairoleon2682 4 года назад +77

      Or really, any boss monster.

    • @icetiger-4760
      @icetiger-4760 4 года назад +52

      i wonder what that boss would look like. Maybe something like nameless? or maybe it would be something like Allant. with the king of (place) and then in a dark area like the flameless shrine we find the True "Uncrowned King"

    • @shinypikagaming
      @shinypikagaming 3 года назад +27

      Ooh, that sounds cool! Maybe in a sequel or bonus fight you’d get The Crowned King, significantly stronger and with an army of goons to shake up the fight!

    • @vonschlesien
      @vonschlesien 3 года назад +17

      Could also be a great epithet for a god or ruler.
      ee e.g. Pillars of Eternity's goddess of justice, oaths, rulership, and revenge: Woedica, the Exiled Queen.

    • @beepboprobotsnot3748
      @beepboprobotsnot3748 3 года назад +11

      Could be one of the kings Wolnir overthrew, given that all their crowns were ground into dust.

  • @TalkingVidya
    @TalkingVidya 6 лет назад +3599

    Galahaut sounds like a Dark Souls final boss, even his name.
    "The Uncrowned King"

    • @gastonoviedo8179
      @gastonoviedo8179 6 лет назад +108

      You can't like ALL the same things I do Danny

    • @ScorpioTheScorpion1503
      @ScorpioTheScorpion1503 6 лет назад +56

      A.K.A. The Bearer of the Curse from DS2.

    • @judeskater93
      @judeskater93 6 лет назад +14

      Talking Vidya I know right?!?!

    • @justcallmefoxy1393
      @justcallmefoxy1393 6 лет назад +82

      Just Imagine a Half-Giant wondering in the woods, a boss you can fight at any time/meet at any time.
      That would be stuff for a "Dark Souls 4" (Ik they won't make another one, but still)

    • @tomdemongod
      @tomdemongod 6 лет назад +21

      Its galehaut, galahaut is lancerlots illigiment son. Just a little information you might like to know

  • @mateobotello7753
    @mateobotello7753 4 года назад +202

    Gawain is one of my favorite Knights, and I did not know J.R.R. Tolkien actually translated the poem of the Green Knight, which just makes him much more of a badass than he already was

  • @michelhv
    @michelhv 3 года назад +255

    I have to disagree on Gawain being a minor character. He’s part of the oldest versions in the Welsh corpus and there’s a significant number of Middle English romances where he’s the main character; the Green Knight one is only the best remembered one nowadays. He’s super important in the Perceval continuations, and it’s only starting with the Vulgate cycle that his star begins to wane because of Lancelot.

    • @albinocyclopse9952
      @albinocyclopse9952 2 года назад +4

      To be fair, who did Lancelot not outshine?

    • @wiesscaballo4211
      @wiesscaballo4211 2 года назад +22

      THANK YOU! Finally someone said it. Gawain is super important to the mythos and for the life of me I don't understand why he always gets forgotten

    • @michelhv
      @michelhv 2 года назад +5

      @@wiesscaballo4211 I suspect the importance of Malory, which for modern anglophone audiences is the most widespread text. Other possibility is the romances of Chrétien de Troyes where he isn’t as important.

    • @tompatterson1548
      @tompatterson1548 Год назад +2

      I mean, Llacheu got outshined before the stories even got written down, so there's a trend here.

    • @ikmwrime29sorryaira60
      @ikmwrime29sorryaira60 8 месяцев назад +1

      Also heard he did the grail quest first.

  • @hfar_in_the_sky
    @hfar_in_the_sky 5 лет назад +1525

    Bit more about Dinadan: in some stories he was violently stabbed and killed by Mordred during the Grail Quest pretty much because he just didn't like Dinadan and slew Dinadan on pretext that he'd made a joke Mordred found offensive. Mind you apparently it was a insensitive joke about one of the other knights who had recently died, but honestly if someone violently murders the comic relief character that's usually a sign you've found your villain.

    • @callianr6980
      @callianr6980 5 лет назад +79

      The Orkneys were a petty Lot.

    • @17-MASY
      @17-MASY 5 лет назад +3

      @@callianr6980 ?

    • @matthewmuir8884
      @matthewmuir8884 5 лет назад +101

      Mordred was the son of King Lot of Orkney and Lady Morgause. that meant he was the brother of Gawain, Gaheris, Gareth and Agravaine. Of those five brothers, guess which two were evil traitors.

    • @TheBeastr
      @TheBeastr 5 лет назад +48

      Honestly in a time of honor and being knights who were bound by the kingdom's laws and social regulations/customs (that if not followed was treated as if they were a criminal for breaking their vows & oaths) so going and talking shit about one of the comrades searching for the sacred object [that TOUCHED Jesus/ [God in one of many forms w/e] !aka the holy grail. So this quest woulda been obviously revered & that includes all of the knights who died attempting this for the glory of Camelot.
      Mordred yes typically isn't a good character any way but come on. He could've shamed or chastised him, no need for all the stabby stab stuff.
      And on the other side, don't ho joking about people who died recently. Never goes well

    • @moredetonation3755
      @moredetonation3755 4 года назад +7

      Literally Ferrus Manus

  • @Cobalt360Degrees
    @Cobalt360Degrees 5 лет назад +492

    4:31 OOOOH.
    Is *THAT* the reason why Lancelot gets all the gay jokes in Monty Python???

    • @arianewinter4266
      @arianewinter4266 3 года назад +78

      It is also not uncommen, that he and Arthur have. . .subtext

    • @Lemuel928
      @Lemuel928 3 года назад +8

      What!?!

    • @kimballbelliston5925
      @kimballbelliston5925 3 года назад +18

      Wait, there were gay jokes?! They frankly went over my head

    • @ItsHimBro
      @ItsHimBro 3 года назад +34

      He was a..
      fr*nchman.

    • @KRDecade2009
      @KRDecade2009 3 года назад +15

      @@ItsHimBro that’s pretty gay tbh

  • @praveenvijeyakumar741
    @praveenvijeyakumar741 3 года назад +157

    8:44 - What the heck, that's such an awesome moral for the story! "You don't have to be perfect. As long as you try your best, that's what counts." Gawain is easily the most respectable and lovable character here (unless you count Galahad). I hope he gets a happy ending or something.
    8:50 - Oh... nevermind

    • @Gabe600
      @Gabe600 2 года назад +24

      hey the guy's brothers just died give him a discount

    • @Amy_the_Lizard
      @Amy_the_Lizard Год назад +1

      It's Arthurian legend, basically no one gets a happy ending, just anarchy

  • @lydiaknotts320
    @lydiaknotts320 4 года назад +80

    Now I REALLY want an 'Aurthur's Knights' cartoon featuring jump-cuts to Dinadan pranking people (whoopee cushions, anyone?) and Galahaut's very obvious crush on Lancelot. I can't draw, but I want it

  • @kagasound3544
    @kagasound3544 6 лет назад +1494

    Galahaut be like: Bros before Thrones

    • @pastelhotmess9299
      @pastelhotmess9299 6 лет назад +57

      Kaga Sound that needs to be on a t-shirt!

    • @orcatwar9810
      @orcatwar9810 5 лет назад +16

      @@pastelhotmess9299 Good idea...i'll buy that

    • @leis7454
      @leis7454 4 года назад

      @@sureikashore1626 you don't know that

    • @margaretwalters6757
      @margaretwalters6757 4 года назад +2

      Ya know.... that sounds like a Game of Thrones meme.

    • @audreykat1753
      @audreykat1753 4 года назад

      "bros"

  • @inufan330
    @inufan330 5 лет назад +913

    "Sir Gawaine was probably the most *boring* of Arthur's known knights"
    Careful Red! You'll resurrect the Merlin fans with that kind of talk!

    • @thatonegirlwithamustache2758
      @thatonegirlwithamustache2758 4 года назад +92

      Gwain was really cool and funny in Merlin tho

    • @jessiepayne2390
      @jessiepayne2390 4 года назад +31

      Wasn't he like the seven deadly sins escanor in terms of his Connection to the ☀

    • @zusfrankenstein8561
      @zusfrankenstein8561 4 года назад +43

      @@jessiepayne2390 Escanor is his own character in the Arthurian mythos, they just happen to have the same power. I think Escanor's "The One" transformation is based on Gawain, tho.

    • @lorendaemon7945
      @lorendaemon7945 4 года назад +54

      Well, he was! Gwaine in Merlin was much more interesting. Although I wish they'd adapted the Green Knight story for him.

    • @arianewinter4266
      @arianewinter4266 3 года назад +23

      He was just the most adorable puppy ever and even more underapriciated as Merlin himself

  • @intergalactic92
    @intergalactic92 3 года назад +95

    The version of the story I heard about the green knight stated that the Green Knight chose Arthur for the test, but Gawain took his place because Arthur was still a boy at this point, and could barely lift the axe, whereas Gawain was a grown man so he reasoned that it would be a fairer contest. This is why I’ve always like Gawain the most, because he is the ordinary knight amongst the perfect paragons.

  • @iceblazer8256
    @iceblazer8256 4 года назад +364

    His knights contains :
    Purple Guy
    Honor Student
    Tomboy
    Eggplant
    Gorilla

  • @neighslayer768
    @neighslayer768 6 лет назад +1184

    Arthur's Bizarre Adventure.

    • @moonyasnow36
      @moonyasnow36 5 лет назад +46

      iS tHis a jOJo's rEFferEncE

    • @faxmachine1162
      @faxmachine1162 5 лет назад +7

      @@moonyasnow36 yes.

    • @rahmanmoncatar9675
      @rahmanmoncatar9675 5 лет назад +47

      I REJECTED MY HUMAINTY ARTHUR

    • @xirensixseo
      @xirensixseo 5 лет назад +58

      YOU THOUGHT IT WAS THE GREEN KNIGHT BUT IT WAS ME, DIO

    • @bbdc1252
      @bbdc1252 4 года назад +32

      Lancer really commits adultery, no dignity.

  • @SuperSongbird21
    @SuperSongbird21 5 лет назад +542

    I think another side of Morgan Le Fay's Green Knight plot was that she expected nobody who accepted the challenge would go through with it and she'd then be able to destroy Arthur's rep by claiming the Knights of the Round Table were all oath-breaking cowards. Since having a good PR was really important to anyone with social status when the poem was written, this makes a lot of sense.

    • @Cheeseanonioncrisps
      @Cheeseanonioncrisps 4 года назад +49

      Honestly, the original poem kind of makes it sound like Morgan might not have even been involved with the whole 'cheating wife, magic girdle, test of honour' nonsense that takes up half the poem. Like, Bertilak was just hired for the head chopping game and then decided that while Gawain was here, he might as well manufacture a complicated test for him.

    • @SolarBlyze
      @SolarBlyze 4 года назад +34

      @@Cheeseanonioncrisps That's basically what he did xD Bertilak just wanted to mess with Gawain because ... quite frankly the boy was easy to mess with. But it also came with the lesson of "you tried, and that's okay" ... course then he goes and fucks up royally >>;

    • @tompatterson1548
      @tompatterson1548 Год назад

      @@SolarBlyze Or because he was a fairy and thats what fairies do.

  • @lemmetalkaboutthis
    @lemmetalkaboutthis 3 года назад +46

    Responses to being told you'll be killed with the same energy:
    "I'd prefer if you didn't"
    "you seem a decent fellow, I'd hate to die"

  • @wallacecrowmanproject9235
    @wallacecrowmanproject9235 3 года назад +53

    Honestly gawain is kinda interesting if you look at him from the angle of someone with anger issues, or not knowing when to quit. His first major story had him accidently Killing a woman because he was going to kill a knight who had yielded. This knight was one gawain had been hunting for months and he wasn't going to let him go. This left gawain in shock after he killed her. There is also his hatred for lancelot after lance killed some of his brothers saving guinevere. He tried and tried to defeat him till he eventually dies.

    • @TS2dethmonkey
      @TS2dethmonkey 3 года назад +13

      Both Gawain and Lancelot both seem to share the same flaw of have short tempers and entering berserker rages while fighting. Though when it comes to the latter flaw, Lancelot certainly has the worse since I think there are many battles where it mentions he accidently kills innocents in the middle of a fury, while Gawain, especially after the incident of killing the women, seems have learned to focus his battle rage against his foes (at least from what I remember since I don't recall any other big incident where he killed another innocent). Come to think of it, this makes it all the weirder that most modern Arthurian works seem to forget or just ignore this when it comes to Lancelot (Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the only work that I can think of from the top of my head that remembers his bloodthirsty berserker tendency, with the whole rushing and slaughtering a lot of people at a wedding). Though I suppose in the "sanitized" retelling of the stories you can't show off your heroic knights in shining armor as being crazed battlers.

  • @sflaningam7680
    @sflaningam7680 5 лет назад +682

    You found yourself in the villainous castle of Dolorous Guard.
    Lancelot: I roll to talk to the nice damsel lady about it's history
    Rolls a 20: Lady is actually daughter of Lady of the Lake, she grants you super shield. You gain increased strength and initiative.

    • @thornless_flora
      @thornless_flora 4 года назад +24

      Yep. This is the sort of things we need.

    • @thomasthecoolkid7228
      @thomasthecoolkid7228 4 года назад +51

      Lancelot's whole life is just someone rolling constant nat-20's until the end, where his luck goes out the window.

    • @mide2476
      @mide2476 3 года назад +19

      @@thomasthecoolkid7228 @ThomasTheCoolKid _
      In the Fate/Stay Night Franchise. Lancelot possess a personal skill called: Protection of Fairies. It increases his luck in critical situation s.
      So your description of lucky rolls is something that other people have also made allegories to as well.

    • @thomasthecoolkid7228
      @thomasthecoolkid7228 3 года назад +6

      @@mide2476 Oh yeah, I know about that. I just completely forgot about it at the time of writing that response.

    • @ThomasJefferson-xc8wg
      @ThomasJefferson-xc8wg 3 года назад +1

      Y e s.

  • @Babalabasqueak
    @Babalabasqueak 4 года назад +495

    Great video, except for the comments on Gawain. There are three reasons why he’s special: one, he’s related to Arthur, giving him an important lineage. When he volunteers to fight the Green Knight, he actually quotes this as a reason why he wants to fight, he wants more of a claim to fame than being related to Arthur. Second, he was exceptionally chivalrous, which is why the tale is about him failing in his chivalry, Gawain was the representation of nobility. Third, Gawain was a Knight for the people. While most knights used swords to fight, an expensive and difficult weapon to master, Gawain used an axe, a common item for the peasant class in the Middle Ages.

    • @catherinecao4810
      @catherinecao4810 2 года назад +43

      Gawain was my favorite knight as a kid. He was the first knight I ever read about.

  • @conorharrington9246
    @conorharrington9246 4 года назад +69

    We all make fun of Gawain, but he is getting his own movie.

  • @ryuuronin9852
    @ryuuronin9852 3 года назад +182

    Red: Gawain is so boring, what has he ever accomplished?
    The Fate/ fandom: (PTSD flashbacks to the Camelot level of Grand Order)

    • @mvalthegamer2450
      @mvalthegamer2450 3 года назад +25

      Also squire tales and EXTRA flashbacks

    • @lemurpie9381
      @lemurpie9381 3 года назад +17

      I still have nightmares about it sometimes

    • @creamywhitestuff7732
      @creamywhitestuff7732 2 года назад +7

      I know my reply is late but fuck his entire existence though I just charm locked her

    • @AmenoHoshizora
      @AmenoHoshizora 2 года назад +11

      Euryale is a fucking godsend

    • @maxmillianwiegel1643
      @maxmillianwiegel1643 2 года назад +5

      He’s pretty interesting in the new David Lowrey film.

  • @Blockio1999
    @Blockio1999 5 лет назад +466

    I know one thing about Arthur's knights for sure: They are great to steal names from for literally any vehicle or piece of equipment in a scifi setting

    • @rogerogue7226
      @rogerogue7226 4 года назад +41

      Hey, Cardfight Vanguard named just about an entire clan's worth of units after them, even the more obscure ones, like Sagremore, and sort of kept to their themes. Which i think is neat.

    • @okami_eddy
      @okami_eddy 4 года назад +26

      Frigate-Class Starship: ELM-37 "Galehaut"
      ...sorry, I got bored.

    • @Sigismund697
      @Sigismund697 4 года назад +27

      I mean if I am to name my cool spaceship and "Invincible Reason", "Tormentum Malorum", "Murder", "Sword of Eternity", "Eternal Crusader", "Becephelus", "Eisenstein" and "Imperator Somnium" are taken Arthurian knights are a great repository for cool names

    • @8-bitsarda747
      @8-bitsarda747 4 года назад +6

      I know right, my personal favorite name to yoink is by far Gawain

    • @magoswes3588
      @magoswes3588 4 года назад +4

      Sigismund, The Emperor's Champion What about “Terminus Est” and “Conqueror” loyalist?

  • @fidelyn1
    @fidelyn1 5 лет назад +220

    *"When you live long enough to see yourself as a villain"*
    Seems legit.

    • @ratom_
      @ratom_ 4 года назад +2

      That's from The Dark Knight

  • @Peracelsius
    @Peracelsius 2 года назад +74

    Guide:
    0:27 Lancelot and Dolorous Gard
    2:07 Parcival and Fierefis
    3:42 Galehaut the uncrowned king
    4:52 Dinadan and Lancelot in a dress
    5:59 Gawain and the green knight
    9:11 song/Roll Credits

  • @Laura-lv1ke
    @Laura-lv1ke 3 года назад +79

    Galehaut giving up infinite power bc Lancelot is just Too Damn Pretty is honestly such a mood

    • @jaydee4697
      @jaydee4697 7 месяцев назад +3

      And Dinadan being cheerfully baffled by all the romance stuff going on around him is such an acearo mood.

  • @acesockvims1671
    @acesockvims1671 6 лет назад +487

    Fun fact about the Lancelot and Galehaut (b)romance. Lancelot, at the end of his own life, will be buried next to Galehaut in the magnificent tomb. And thus they would forever be... HETERO DEATH BUDDIES. :')

    • @tuskinekinase
      @tuskinekinase 6 лет назад +11

      #hoyay

    • @kyriss12
      @kyriss12 6 лет назад +55

      yeah I really don't see that romance working out at all.
      Galehaut would absolutely destroy Lancelot if they ever tried to have sex.

    • @kaelynrork9080
      @kaelynrork9080 6 лет назад +131

      Two bros, chilling in a tomb, five feet apart cause they’re not gay
      my apologies it had to be done

    • @xRaiofSunshine
      @xRaiofSunshine 6 лет назад +7

      Chikorita Motors It had to be done 😆

    • @gabriellarena2256
      @gabriellarena2256 6 лет назад +64

      Y'all ever sucked your best bud's dong, not gay tho, just for fun
      real hetero bro stuff, you would never understand
      Have you even looked him in the eyes, hold him tight in your arms, under the moon light, put your lips in his ear and whisper softly "no homo", then you know what's real love, real hetero non-gay love, that is
      nothing more manly than two manly men being manly together forever, that's all I'm saying

  • @cecasander
    @cecasander 5 лет назад +120

    "On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It's a silly place."

  • @danmurray1996
    @danmurray1996 3 года назад +25

    Gawain is the best. In most of the mythos he is Arthur's heir prior to Mordred's arrival along with Arthur's best knight. He acts as a foil to both Mordred and Lancelot, an exemplar of their failings: Mordred's lack of virtue and Lancelot's lack of Loyalty are even more apparent in comparison.

  • @asaltyem0826
    @asaltyem0826 4 года назад +42

    Few thoughts. I love the first knight and how the writer didn’t understand what being biracial was. He seems super cool and I appreciate that. Galahant (Sorry if I spelled it wrong) is awesome. I like that he’s very well liked and then just straight up gives up because “damn what a cute boy”

  • @Lazyguy22
    @Lazyguy22 6 лет назад +371

    More points on Sir Dinadan - Lancelot put the dress on *on top* of his armour, and apparently is still seen as attractive by the rest of the knights. Combine that with the fact that Dinadan is the only knight capable of recognising the other knights - *and even King Arthur himself* - by their faces rather than their heraldry, and I get the impression that Camelot, truly, was a very silly place.

    • @Hyperversum3
      @Hyperversum3 5 лет назад +41

      Probably, in Camelot you had a huge fucking problem with people hair-cuts and beards being all the same.
      OR it was referring to knights with the helmets on. That would make a bit more sense.

    • @EclipseDoesArt
      @EclipseDoesArt 5 лет назад +8

      Hyperversum *plays the Monty Python song*

    • @cmsully1
      @cmsully1 5 лет назад +7

      I heard it was only a model...

    • @EllaAngeli
      @EllaAngeli 5 лет назад +1

      I understand that reference

    • @HailNeatoBurrito
      @HailNeatoBurrito 3 года назад

      Well its only a model

  • @shrimpbisque
    @shrimpbisque 5 лет назад +185

    ... And the aptly named, "Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film."

  • @RegstarRogstar
    @RegstarRogstar 3 года назад +47

    Gawain really hits that spot i got for unimportant-ish characters and boy the kisses were really adorable and really helped him to wedge through the crevices of my heart

    • @TaliesintheBard-wd2sz
      @TaliesintheBard-wd2sz 3 месяца назад

      Gawain is probably the most ubiquitous Arthurian knight; he just gets the short end of the stick in adaptations. It’s the way of heroes: for Lancelot’s star to rise, Gawain’s had to set a bit, just as Kay’s did when Gawain was becoming important. I mean, Kay went from being able to breathe underwater for 9 days and nights, sleep for nine days and nights, grow to treetop height, radiate enough heat from his hands to keep his friends from freezing, etc. to not even being in this video.

  • @henrywall2338
    @henrywall2338 2 года назад +28

    Of all the knights that could have gotten a movie deal, Sir Gawain is the last one I expected. And I am so happy!

  • @BEEEELEEEE
    @BEEEELEEEE 4 года назад +138

    The knowledge that Galehaut's mother was a giantess gives me wonderful visions of his parents generally being cute together. I'm a sucker for the large woman/small man pairing.

  • @firetarrasque4667
    @firetarrasque4667 6 лет назад +211

    Should have mention Yvain.Yvain. He killed a guy, married his wife, got medieval divorced, went crazy, went un-crazy, found a lion, killed a giant and some demons, fought Gawain, saved a woman's life, and then extorted his ex wife into remarrying him.

    • @TheBeastr
      @TheBeastr 5 лет назад +3

      Isn't he based off of Owain (or Owein) mab Urien?

  • @calebkopp7636
    @calebkopp7636 3 года назад +16

    My favorite Gwain story was a short one where he basically got in a duel with another knight, to the death. When the other knight went to strike, Gwain stopped him and took off the sash/girder so that he wasn't "cheating" despite no rules against magical items having been placed forth. The other knight forfeits the duel on the grounds of what basically amounts to; you're a good person, and I like you more than half the knights here so I'm not hurting you. As thanks Gwain's demand for winning the dual is to have a meal with the nameless knight, and they become bros.

  • @LordDeathwing17
    @LordDeathwing17 2 года назад +8

    On the subject of Knights you didn’t get to, I saw a Tumblr post about how people were complaining about how anime the knights get in modern stories. The poster pointed out than in the original stories, just to give a few examples;
    Bedivere openly practiced magic and Arthurs intervention was the only thing that stopped him from being hanged for witchcraft (TWICE, I might add!).
    Kay could hold his breath for 10 days, emit supernatural heat from his hands, and grow to the size of a giant.
    Merroc was a werewolf! (You actually briefly mentioned that in your werewolf video last year, Red).
    The post ended with the conclusion that modern versions of the knights aren’t anime ENOUGH.

  • @cornygrunt9617
    @cornygrunt9617 6 лет назад +646

    The more I hear of King Arthur's Knights and the more I think they were all the most anime sounding characters and story's I've heard. Trust me, there are some not covered that were just as crazy and weird.

    • @Neo232100
      @Neo232100 5 лет назад +113

      One of the Knights I really like is Sir Ywain who, in one of his adventures found a lion being attacked by a Dragon so Ywain, apparently being a dude who loves cats charged in to protect the lion. Ywain’s courage and nobility inspires the lion to join him in slaying the dragon and then the Lion becomes Ywain’s companion and best friend. Serving both as a symbol of his nobility and as his tag team partner. One adventure saw Ywain and his lion killing giants.

    • @benjaminklaassen4722
      @benjaminklaassen4722 5 лет назад +73

      Now there's an idea. Aside from TYPE-MOON, we should get an anime about Arthur that is precisely centered around him and his order while still staying as true to the mythos as possible. All in favor?

    • @helenanilsson5666
      @helenanilsson5666 5 лет назад +70

      "while still staying as true to the mythos as possible."
      I mean, depends on which generation of the mythos we're talking about. This is a fanfic of a fanfic of a fanfic of a faux historical account based on a footnote in a slightly more accurate history book. I mean, where do we draw the line? Which interpretations are too modern to be considered part of the mythos?

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 5 лет назад +34

      Is there anything that _doesn't_ sound like some kind of anime? It's almost like anime is a medium, not a genre...

    • @GeneGear
      @GeneGear 5 лет назад +25

      @@helenanilsson5666 The glory of anime is that you can pick and choose from across ALL the fanfics and no one is going to bat an eye when continuity goes to hell.

  • @jacks.6243
    @jacks.6243 5 лет назад +208

    Red: Gawain is kinda boring.
    Me: YOU WOT MATE

    • @Andi-yv3vz
      @Andi-yv3vz 4 года назад +9

      Exactly my thoughts when I heard this line. He's one of my favorite knights (just after Parcival, of course).

  • @gamingdemigodxiii5630
    @gamingdemigodxiii5630 4 года назад +127

    5:20 Well, if Galehaut ate the fish it would indeed prove that he wasn't a wolf.
    Because only a bear will eat a fish.

    • @arianewinter4266
      @arianewinter4266 3 года назад +29

      Thats way funnier than it should be with him beeing half a giant and totaly in love with Lancelot

    • @ahorribleterribleperson
      @ahorribleterribleperson 3 года назад +25

      Well, now we finally understand the inside joke.

    • @chillobsidian9592
      @chillobsidian9592 8 месяцев назад +2

      Ladies and gents, I found the Medieval time-traveller!!!

  • @ravendan968
    @ravendan968 3 года назад +23

    My favorite knight is Sir Palemedes who has to my knowledge never been portrayed on screen but he has been in a lot of the books post vulgate. Hes a Saracen pagan who is evenly matched with Tristan and is obsessed with Lady Isolde. He also goes on a lifelong hunt for the questing beast. Basically he's an expansion pack on the Tristan and Isolde story and him and his two brothers become knights of the round table. I portrayed him a few times at my local medieval faire

  • @666melodeath666
    @666melodeath666 6 лет назад +1055

    What No Mention of Brave Sir Robin and his Merry Bard Troupe?
    Brave Sir Robin ran away.
    ("No!")
    Bravely ran away away.
    ("I didn't!")
    When danger reared it's ugly head,
    He bravely turned his tail and fled.
    ("I never!")
    Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
    And gallantly he chickened out.
    ("You're lying!")
    Swiftly taking to his feet,
    He beat a very brave retreat.
    Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!

    • @prehistoricpawprint9452
      @prehistoricpawprint9452 6 лет назад +86

      Nee.

    • @johanngambolputty4117
      @johanngambolputty4117 6 лет назад +46

      Prehistoricpawprint To which I say IT!

    • @TomSistermans
      @TomSistermans 6 лет назад +102

      You mean Sir Robin, the -not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Lancelot, who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor, who nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill?

    • @haeilsey
      @haeilsey 6 лет назад +61

      We need the aptly named sir not appearing in this film

    • @jjs7650
      @jjs7650 6 лет назад +24

      GET ON WITH IT!

  • @darklazer3769
    @darklazer3769 6 лет назад +96

    „LANCELOT GET DOWN HERE“
    „SHANT“

  • @late_prince8945
    @late_prince8945 3 года назад +16

    I have no idea that Arthurian legends are so wholesome and fanfic-like/DnD-like. I think I like them more than the greek myths.

  • @A_Classy_Phoenix
    @A_Classy_Phoenix 4 года назад +122

    Okay but, imagine a courtly Love story between Lancelot and Galehaut.
    G: Lancelot, every moment we spend together gives me untold joy, and I cannot hide my feelings anymore! I... I love you madly Lancelot!
    L: Galehaut...I adore our time together as well. I laugh harder and smile wider with you than any other, but you know my heart will forever belong to Guinevere.
    Just, imagine a full book of this.

    • @trollkienofficial1225
      @trollkienofficial1225 3 года назад +6

      Buuuut historians would declare it a "bRoMaNcE" anyways... -.-.

    • @ahorribleterribleperson
      @ahorribleterribleperson 3 года назад +24

      If Galahaut love lancelot and gets his heart broken by him, since he canonicaly helps lancelot run away with Guinavere, it shows that Galahaut TRULY loves Lancelot 'cause not only he wasnt bitter with having his heart broken, he's so selfless that he'd actually help lancelot be happy with the woman he loves... imagine:
      Lancelot: "I'm gonna runaway with Guinavere, my true love and the only one who loves me"
      Galahaut: *has several days of depression and heartbreaks*
      Lancelot: "you look downtrodden"
      Galahaut: "I'll see to it that you have the happiest life you'll ever have, you'll be so happy YOU'LL DROWN IN IT!!! *DROWN IN IT!!!*

  • @thishandleisntavailable42069
    @thishandleisntavailable42069 6 лет назад +151

    "We're Knights of the Round Table.
    We dance whene'er we're able.
    We do routines and chorus scenes
    With footwork impeccable.
    We dine well here in Camelot.
    We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
    We're Knights of the Round Table.
    Our shows are formidable,
    But many times we're given rhymes
    That are quite unsingable.
    We're opera mad in Camelot.
    We sing from the diaphragm a lot.
    In war we're tough and able,
    Quite indefatigable.
    Between our quests we sequin vests and impersonate Clark Gable.
    It's a busy life in Camelot.
    I have to push the pram a lot."

    • @madskristiansen
      @madskristiansen 6 лет назад +34

      Bloody Heretic "You know on second thought let's not go to Camelot. Tis a silly place."

    • @sophiatalksmusic3588
      @sophiatalksmusic3588 6 лет назад +8

      Yes, but do they eat coconuts as well?

    • @HailNeatoBurrito
      @HailNeatoBurrito 3 года назад

      A coconut? This is a temperate zone!

  • @wh3nderson95
    @wh3nderson95 6 лет назад +358

    I have to admit that Gawain happens to be one of my preferred knights since he was one of the few that was meant to being the most "human" in a sense. Sure people cannot live up to the what their role is supposed to be and let their emotions get the better of them. I know its strange since I am defending a loose cannon, but that is how I feel about the guy. Plus, he knew that he wasn't as important as King Arthur and that general sense of bravery to face a danger that would rather go to someone above Gawain in rank.
    I used to think that Courage and Stupidity are different concepts since self-preservation is something I never blame a living being. So to willingly offer one's life in the place of another, its something that sticks out for me. For Middle English literature, nothe modern interpretation for self sacrifice.

    • @gnarthdarkanen7464
      @gnarthdarkanen7464 6 лет назад +33

      Recognizing that most of this literature is centuries old, and thus somewhat prone to being a primitive base work, I believe that's exactly how you're SUPPOSED to feel about Gawain.
      In essence, he's part of the origins of the "everyman" hero, so his story is intended to inspire the rest of us to rise to our own greatness, whatever that might be, in spite of our own inequities and short-comings. The green knight has some Loric background, probably Celtic, but represents "the thing that most terrifies". Summoning up his courage, not just to take the initial risk in Arthur's place, but again to seek out the Green Knight for the honorable conclusion, Gawain demonstrates the highest value of nobility... NOT that he's so pure of heart, or fearless, or valiant by rote, but that he's an honest man who tries, and faces what most terrifies him... The minor cut, as confusing or confounding as it might seem, is to say, that once you step up to face it, fear tends to turn out far less than you'd expect.
      I've long enjoyed the Gawain story, particularly for the multiple layers and facets of its moral premise and foundation. For an earlier English work, it's profoundly well done, all things considered. ;o)

  • @annawesometheflameingpikac3688
    @annawesometheflameingpikac3688 4 года назад +30

    8:53 well if someone killed either of MY brothers they'd be dead where they stands

  • @jacksparda997
    @jacksparda997 3 года назад +24

    Props to Gawain, that is a man I aspire to be. A true gentleman, resisting temptation and accepting his average-ness.

  • @TomSistermans
    @TomSistermans 6 лет назад +69

    You forgot Sir Robin, the -not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Lancelot, who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor, who nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill.

  • @frankytheimmortal8527
    @frankytheimmortal8527 6 лет назад +276

    Because of this video my sister and I have been discussing at length that you could very easily write a T.V. series about King Arthur and his knights’ adventures through the perspective of Gawain.
    The basic framework is:
    Gawain is not nearly as good or knightly as the other members of the round table, but he did some heroic act to save his town or something while Arthur and some knights were passing through so they allowed him into the round table. The show follows the knights and Arthur going on their many quests, while Gawain attempts to become a better knight and more respected member of the round table.
    (We drew up and entire storyboard and plot afterwords that mostly follows the established myths with various twists to fit the narrative, but eventually diverges into our own story. Major plot points include the death of Dinadan, a cursed Excalibur, and an explanation for the lady of the lake, who may or may not be the grandiose puppet master villain who orchestrated Lancelot’s “betrayal” of Arthur and the ultimate civil war with Mordred)

    • @richardgibson8403
      @richardgibson8403 4 года назад +12

      FrankyTheImmortal That’s Great!

    • @roosh5149
      @roosh5149 4 года назад +19

      I'd watch/ read that!

    • @morningglorymoth
      @morningglorymoth 4 года назад +12

      Make this a thing please

    • @redzoro92
      @redzoro92 4 года назад +19

      You know, I've always theorized that the Lady of the Lake might be the true villain of the the Arthurian Legends. So it's nice to see someone think that might be possible. Like Excalibur is actually a "key" of sorts that she needs a mortal to wield to escape the lake or something. And maybe Avalon is a lock that seals her. I don't know, but yeah a series with Gawain as the lead is a nice change of pace.

    • @rdh288
      @rdh288 4 года назад +12

      I'd highly recommend reading The Squire's Tale. It's an excellent series that is a fun retelling mostly from the perspective of Gawain's squire. Although it makes Gawain a lot cooler than he appears to be in this video, so it might not line up with your idea much.

  • @lemmetalkaboutthis
    @lemmetalkaboutthis 4 года назад +30

    video: "when he stumbles into a dnd module"
    me, a dm: you know what-
    me, a dm that is also very tired: y-yeah that's fair actually

  • @winterivy9381
    @winterivy9381 4 года назад +82

    I _adore_ the vague homoerotic undertones in so many of these stories

    • @francescapatti2934
      @francescapatti2934 3 года назад +15

      VAGUE?!?!

    • @winterivy9381
      @winterivy9381 3 года назад +3

      @@francescapatti2934 touché

    • @SomeCrusader
      @SomeCrusader 3 года назад +1

      I've just dismissed the homoeroticism because, come on, this was written in Medieval Europe. You could get burnt as a heretic for not following the Catholic Church's teachings down to the letter.

  • @lauv3871
    @lauv3871 5 лет назад +523

    Me: *reading the end highlights*
    Also me: *gasps ridiculously loudly and much too absurdly for the situation* Dinadan DIES?!?!

    • @seannolan9857
      @seannolan9857 5 лет назад +51

      Aside from Bedivere and Lancelot, pretty much everyone dies.

    • @euansmith3699
      @euansmith3699 4 года назад +8

      I'm sure that he leaves them all laughing.

    • @mediadetective6104
      @mediadetective6104 4 года назад +17

      Bet that if the Arthurian Legends were adapted into some form fiction today (cartoon, live action, anime, etc) they’d portray Dinadan’s death like a mystery and it’s be as tragic as Hughes’ death in FMA

    • @breadslice9779
      @breadslice9779 4 года назад +9

      Media Detective HUGHES DIES?!

    • @thisguynamedmatt12
      @thisguynamedmatt12 4 года назад +4

      All of them die except bedivere, my boy Ywain the Lion knight was the last to fall though.

  • @Volvith
    @Volvith 6 лет назад +56

    Galahaut "The Uncrowned King"...
    Now, it's not like i'm saying he's a Dark Souls boss, but...
    _What is this, a crossover episode?_

  • @fevierenie671
    @fevierenie671 3 года назад +11

    Nothing is more sad than the story of Bedwyr/Bedivere, who got replaced by OCdunotstil Lancelot.
    Rest well, one-armed knight, we will remember you anyway.

  • @shadowstriker6506
    @shadowstriker6506 4 года назад +11

    3:22 honestly having black AND white skin sounds pretty dope.

  • @rothern3761
    @rothern3761 6 лет назад +439

    Camelot is such a silly place

  • @Afreon
    @Afreon 6 лет назад +824

    "Sir Gawain is probably the most boring of Arthur's well known knights..."
    You know, I've just discovered your videos, and I've been really enjoying them (just subscribed). It'd be a shame if we fell out over something silly like you provoking my ALL CONSUMING ARTHURIAN NERD RAGE!!!!

    • @elazarsinger4187
      @elazarsinger4187 5 лет назад +96

      Yeah, for the most this is very enjoyable, but NOBODY calls gawain boring!

    • @Ray-hk1zm
      @Ray-hk1zm 5 лет назад +93

      He did a few stupid things, though. I like him still, but WHY.
      Case in point: Why don't you just... I dunno... lightly tap the green knight with the axe? You get a sweet axe, and you get to live, and everything's okey dokey!
      So w h y.
      Why chop his HEAD OFF.

    • @elazarsinger4187
      @elazarsinger4187 5 лет назад +82

      @@Ray-hk1zm I don't think they realized he would not die from getting his head cut off. Plus he just threatened the king and insulted their honor. People were super defensive of their honor back then

    • @Ray-hk1zm
      @Ray-hk1zm 5 лет назад +17

      @@elazarsinger4187 Yeah, that's fair. Still, I'm shocked that Red didn't say anything about it haha.

    • @marcellplaceres8724
      @marcellplaceres8724 5 лет назад +54

      @@Ray-hk1zm I mean i dont think its ever stated that he was to attack them with the axe using the same force or aggression, just that he *would* strike them back in a year, so it kind of makes sense youd want to kill someone who otherwise would more than likely kill you

  • @scottgrey3337
    @scottgrey3337 3 года назад +8

    Feirefiz seems like a pretty cool guy. A biracial dude leading African/Middle Eastern forces (so "Saracens") who's a competent fighter and noble person, is related to another character, and ends up being a pretty good addition to Authur's court. It's all a little too chill for Medieval Europe that I'm kind of worried there's a story out there that ruins his character.

  • @nevermore7285
    @nevermore7285 3 года назад +40

    7:38 You know, considering the wager, there’s a lot more reasons for him to do as little as possible with her beyond chivalry.

    • @WhiteScorpio2
      @WhiteScorpio2 Год назад +5

      I mean, if you are a COWARD.

    • @madelinedarby6492
      @madelinedarby6492 Год назад +5

      @@WhiteScorpio2 Or a decent human being

    • @tompatterson1548
      @tompatterson1548 Год назад

      Could be specified in the source red's pulling from.

    • @ethancoltrane5754
      @ethancoltrane5754 Год назад +7

      I mean, if he gives the Green Knight what she gives to him and she gives him... snu-snu, then he would also have to...😏
      (Seriously, someone on AO3 needs to roll with this idea.)

    • @alexjewett7455
      @alexjewett7455 25 дней назад

      ​@@ethancoltrane5754I'm sure there's something there already. Most likely multiple seconds.

  • @Roadk1ll21
    @Roadk1ll21 6 лет назад +387

    Note to self:
    Stop watching these at work. I keep getting in trouble for laughing too loudly.

    • @paulollarsabaiii9824
      @paulollarsabaiii9824 6 лет назад +8

      Jesse Miller Good luck with that.

    • @Roadk1ll21
      @Roadk1ll21 6 лет назад +10

      Plucifer The Invincible 4hr later and still can't help myself 🤣

    • @virgil_boo5692
      @virgil_boo5692 6 лет назад +5

      I have the same problem but I watch this video at school

  • @christasmith7339
    @christasmith7339 6 лет назад +189

    Feirefiz is now the patron knight of vitiligo and no one can tell me otherwise.

  • @mythosandlogos
    @mythosandlogos 4 года назад +23

    I just finished an in-depth episode on symbolism in the Holy Grail story, and your videos were a fantastic help!
    You’re absolutely right that Arthurian legend is very intimidating at first because of how varied it is. This show helped me realize that, for my purposes, Mallory was the best resource for me. Thank you for that!

  • @ASquared544
    @ASquared544 5 лет назад +193

    I love Red's design. I don't know what it is about it, despite the fact it's pretty simple and is devoid of almost all color, but it just looks really nice

    • @Acidfrog475
      @Acidfrog475 4 года назад +10

      Yea. Especially their rendition of Journey to the West. Honestly, I'd personally make that an official fandom if I'd know how XD.

    • @icetiger-4760
      @icetiger-4760 4 года назад +12

      i know right? Not to mention Red's absolutely stellar comedy. like the "Lancelot get down here!" " S H A N T" thing. Those are always funny!~