A route · 5 stops
The Welsh Arthur
Before France got hold of him: a war-band chieftain surrounded by men who can drink a sea dry, and the rawest version of the Grail failure.
Read this and the difference between traditions stops being an abstraction.
- 1StoryCulhwch and Olwen
The oldest Arthurian story: forty impossible tasks, a giant who must die at his daughter's wedding, and a boar hunted across two countries.
- 2Mabinogion KILHWCH AND OLWEN · 1KILHWCH AND OLWEN, part 1 of 12
The claim at the gate, and the roll of Arthur's men.
- 3StoryThe bleeding spear, unasked
A boy watches a bleeding spear carried through a hall and says nothing, because he was told a knight does not ask.
- 4Mabinogion PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC · 3PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC, part 3 of 13
The bleeding spear, the severed head, and the silence.
- 5StoryYvain and the lion
A knight wins a wife by killing her husband, loses her by forgetting a date, goes mad, and is rebuilt by a lion.