King Arthur

So Marilyn writes in, well, first off, paladins are legendary knights, supposedly of Charlemagne's court.

And they were considered in many ways to be similar to King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.

This would put them in around circa 800 CE, but we don't get any writings about this romantic vision until the 12th century.

They represent chivalry and a noble fight against the Saracens, probably inspired by the Umayyad invasions of Gaul, and get their best coverage in the Chanson de Roland, the Song of Roland.

The Romano-British, as they were referred to, or as they're now referred to, this group of people who were ethnically primarily Bartholic Celts but were culturally Roman, they maintained Christianity and they continued to practice Christianity.

King Arthur is an extremely Christian figure.

He's kind of this paragon of Christian virtue in the early medieval period.

Extremely

And it kills all the noble Welsh people of the generation, tons of them.

So later on, King Arthur's looking for, like, oh, I

need

to build a

memorial to all

these people because King Arthur was Welsh originally.

I need a memorial, so what should we do? Oh, we should go to Ireland and steal Stonehenge, essentially is what they do.

And Stonehenge actually came from Africa.

I got it.

We read all three of the Warlord Chronicles, which features a story about King Arthur, not from King Arthur's perspective, from Derval Caderns, one of Arthur's loyal followers.

And if you want to read the series, we'll give a brief spoiler-free on this, then we'll warn you all, but this is really going to be us talking about the trilogy.

So if you have read it, look forward to that very shortly.

Yep.

The second

big reason is the King Arthur of the Arthurian legend.

This takes King Arthur and makes it feel far more authentic to the time.

Yeah, I think, I mean, if you think of the phrase fairy tale, just immediately, I think of knight fighting a dragon, you know.

And if there's a knight, then he's serving some kind of royal society, right? And you think of King Arthur is just...

quintessential magical stories, right? And I've wondered about this too, where if we have this idea of a monarch, especially thinking about it in the ideal sense, is this person ordained by God, desired by God to be king, to rule over people.

I think that connection with the divine is just a great icon of transcendence that you can find in fairy tales but yeah it is it is funny because I'd be writing a story and I think there was one moment during the copy editing phase where I said something I can't remember what it was your highness or your majesty is only allowed to be used for a king or queen and I said it for the wrong person and the copy editor caught that and I said I'm sorry my American is showing it so glad we had some really good copy editors on our side.

All right, we've got five categories tonight.

Our categories are Jackson Jill's, Children's Books, Dream a Little Dream, King Arthur and His Knight's, Each peach, pear, plum.

What's it going to be?

Oh, this feels like a fairytale categories, but I have to go with obviously Jack and Jill's.

Question number two.

We're in Jackson Jill's, but you can move anywhere else you like.

Children's books, Dream a Little Dream, Each Peach, Pear, Plum, or King Arthur and His Knights?

Oh,

Like, so Luke Skywalker being the chosen one as a 10 year old or 11 year old finding Buffy, the chosen one, Harry Potter as like an 11 year old chosen one.

King Arthur is a one that is one of the oldest ones that like keeps through everything.

And I remember a bunch of King Arthur cartoons and then, um, Disney versions of that as a kid, that's a sword from the stone chosen one.

Um, yeah, I don't know.

And I think that's had negative impacts for sure on, on Gen X millennials and for sure, maybe not Gen Z as much, but like they don't really watch TV or anything, but like the idea that you're chosen and you're special, um, I think is good.

We have got all sorts going on.

We've got evil King Arthur-inspired knights from another realm.

what's not to love? Bambera is absolutely great.

It's good to see sort of a slightly close in the future unit.