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Arthur, King of Time and Space

6/5/07

The Lancelot-Grail Reader leaves out any bits about where the Lady of Malehaut comes from and what she's doing at Guenevere's side by the time of the Battle of Saxon Rock. I had to websearch even to find out her name. She's also the mother of the Round Table knight Sir Dodinel, who was a fantastic hunter, mostly because he refused to come home from the forest to eat and sleep and stuff.

You will have noticed that I've taken advantage of Galehaut's heritage to not have to invent a face for him. I thought of making Eglante a dwarf to the same end, but not for long. It wasn't that I was afraid to leave another character's face to the audience's imagination. It was the logistics of their becoming lovers later that I didn't want distracting the audience. Plus I have half-formed plans of keeping Eglante around as Guenevere's sidekick even after the end of Galehaut's story (Guenevere made the complaint of which Merlin speaks here), as today's cartoon goes a ways to set up. Un-gender-bent female Arthurian characters who aren't evil or mere extensions of their mens' stories are rare enough without being saddled with invented one-note sight gags, which both can get old quickly and can become obstacles to using the character.

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Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian Legend
Arthuriana - the Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Early British Kingdoms - Arthurian Bios
. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 and Volume 2.

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