#erec

[gawrkin]

The people who are with Arthur in Avalon or are in a Cave alongside him:

(Disclaimer: Not including Morgan, the other fairies and/or Merlin)

La Bataille Loquifer: Gawain, Ywain, Percival and Guinevere (Guest Star: Roland from the Charlemagne series)

Lanzelet: Lout (Loholt)

Craig-y-Ddinas: Ywain, Kay, Bedivere, Gawain, Percival, Geraint/Erec, Tristan, Culhwch, Yder and Calogrenant (Source: The Welsh Fairy Book, by Willaim Jenkyn Thomas)

Sewingshields Folklore: Guinevere

Tally:

Queen Guinevere: 2

Sir Gawain: 2

Sir Ywain: 2

Sir Percival: 2

Sir Loholt: 1

Sir Kay: 1

Sir Bedivere: 1

Sir Geraint/Erec: 1

Sir Yder/Edern ap Nudd: 1

Sir Tristan: 1

Sir Culhwch: 1

Sir Calogrenant: 1

In the end, Arthur won't be alone...

Of course, none of the later French characters - Lancelot, Bors, Galahad, Palamedes, Dinadan, etc. - made it to Avalon or the Enchanted Cave. It's the older tradition characters who have a chance.

[grail-lifesupport]

Lmao get monked punk

[pgwodewose]

Today I read Erex Saga, the Norse version of Erec and Enid, which gives us a version of Erec/Geraint who, as I said before on Discord, I didn't want to reach through the page and throttle. I recommend it. It's a good short read, only 30 pages long.

With them in mind, I drew them thus.

[queer-chnospinci]

Erec and Enite retelling but they are both butches/ trans masc and share the societal role of "the knight Erec and gis wife"

[hovelicher-unsin]

Ich liebe liebe liebe, wenn jemand von mir weiß, dass ich mittelhochdeutsche Literatur liebe und dann erfährt, dass meine Katze Enite heißt. Der Blick ist jedes Mal so großartig.

[talesfromtheenchantedforest]

Knights Irrevocably On My Shit List

Erec

[aestheticmoody]

Arthurian Legend : Erec

[distantpagesandpapercuts]

"Where did that come from?" - erec

Blood blood blood blood

Kira notices the other's shirt has a blood stain starting to pool, and when she points it out, he doesn't seem all that concerned about it. Perhaps he was just used to injury in his work.

"Dunnow," Kira sighs before zipping open her bag and digging around.

"Better take care of it fast, even the most insignificant of injuries can be a problem left untreated. Here- lift up your shirt. We'll see how bad it is. I've got some supplies you can use." She pulls out a bottle of rubbing alcohol and some wound dressings for now.

[vooruitmariek]

March to Camelot #1: hunt

Sir Erec and Queen Guinevere in the woods

[chiropteracupola]

What a hard-hearted young man, hard-hearted you must be / You must have had a heart of any stone / For to say that you would murder that fair and pretty maid / When she doted the ground that you walked on.

[geraint and enid for @mortiscausa’s ’march to camelot,’ for the prompt ‘power’]

[queer-ragnelle]

When my time comes around Lay me gently in the cold dark earth No grave can hold my body down I'll crawl home to her — Work Song by Hozier

Shadow of the Raven (1988) | The Chessboard Queen by Sharan Newman | Erex Saga

[grail-lifesupport]

Erec has finally been locked up in jail! Unfortunatly they also took gawain now everyone has to rescue them. 😞

(lanzelet)

[zeizeizeizei]

POV: You're learning smithing from Celebrimbor

The heat of the forge seems almost distant compared to the warmth radiating from Celebrimbor as he steps behind you.

His presence is steady, commanding but not overpowering, as his hands gently guide yours over the hammer and tongs. His voice, low and smooth, brushes against your ear as he speaks, “The strike is not about force—it’s about precision. Feel the metal’s resistance, and work with it, not against it.”

His black hair falls forward, brushing against your shoulder and mixing with your own brunette strands, a fleeting touch that sends a shiver up your spine. You’re acutely aware of the closeness, the faint scent of steel and something uniquely him, a mix of ancient woods and embers.

"Here," he murmurs, his breath warm against your temple as he adjusts your grip, his long fingers wrapping around yours with practiced ease.

Together, your hands bring the hammer down in a perfect strike, the sound resonating like music. "Do you feel that?" he asks softly, his tone carrying both approval and an almost imperceptible intimacy.

You nod, your voice caught somewhere between the rhythm of the forge and the way his body aligns with yours. "Yes," you manage, the word barely audible over the hum of the fire.

His lips curve in a subtle smile you can’t see but can feel in the shift of his posture. "Good," he says, his voice dropping to a near-whisper. "You’re learning. And you have far more potential than you realize."

For a moment, time seems to stand still—the steady rhythm of the forge, the glow of the molten metal, and the closeness of the elf behind you, his guidance steady, his touch light yet grounding.

In that moment, you feel the weight of creation, and perhaps something deeper, lingering in the space between the two of you.

[evedaser]

alright finished erec and enide. it may be harder for me to consolidate my thoughts as i’ve been reading it in much less of an obsessive haze than i did the others thus far. i also simply liked it less, but i’ll get to that. this is going to be much more pessimistic than all the others as well because im sitting in a government service office rn so im not exactly filled with excitement or anything

- i know this is the earliest of chrétien’s romances, so rather than being repetitive it’s actually establishing his patterns, but god this man. this man. every time anyone writes of a knight, they are always THE best and THE noblest. there can only be so many best and noblest knights my guy 😭 at least he does kind of acknowledge the others whom he favours and to an extent how they compare, mentioning them as equal or second to each other, or within the same class and quality.

- i opened this thinking erec was going to be such a wifeguy. the introduction to the edition im reading did rightly state the central problem of the story — that erec loves enide so greatly his knightly duties and glory begin to suffer — but he spends the entire second part of the story treating her like shit. having read how devoted he is to her from the first part, it’s hard to believe, it feels like you’re always waiting for him to drop the act and explain whatever kind of test he’s putting her through, but that part is all from enide’s perspective and no explanation ever comes, it’s so perplexing and frankly a bit disturbing.

- speaking of which i think i need to find a modern retelling of this i couldn’t stand the treatment of enide throughout this goddamn story. i love her, she’s a wonderful character and the most central a woman has been so far in the small selection of stories i have read. she’s never idle in her interactions, she’s quite strong willed and is deeply devoted, loyal, and caring for erec, for her family, and for all who rightly endear themselves to her. it’s just nice to have a character who is a normal and good person

- on a better note, the sparrow hawk competition was fucking fantastic. it was fun, interesting, and with quite a compelling antagonist as far as these things go. he was fun to hate, like a disney villain or a high school movie bully, and the length of the fight strang along the tension quite well instead of erec just instantly winning.

ok onto the bullshit

- love a man who has a good relationship with his father 🔥

- knights really do follow fucking pokémon logic. if you make eye contact you MUST do battle. what happened to “hello, how are you”. poor enide being subjected to this ridiculous culture 💀💀 some of those knights he fought were such assholes though lmao

- the thing with the giants was crrraaazyyyy someone teach these people some fucking first aid. enide didn’t even check his pulse or his breathing she just gave up!!

- FORCED MARRIAGE PLOT?????

- PERCEIVED ZOMBIE PLOT??????????

- not even gonna comment on the last part (with the joy of the court) tbh it was fun and erec was actually nice to his wife and that’s all i got for you

- on a whump note, i did appreciate that this one actually let erec be tangibly damaged by his wounds and gave him time to recover, i liked the inclusion of how weak he was. apart from erec, h o l y s h i t some of the injuries in that book. oh my god some of the injuries and deaths had me genuinely staring slack jawed at the page wdym he cut people in half or speared through their eye until their brain fell out the back what?? huh??? excuse me????

[hovelicher-unsin]

my friend said yesterday that i'm like this about "eric"

by which she meant "erec" and i love my friends for trying. she was also correct, i can definitely turn into a biting, violent guy thinking about him and how he came back from death to save his wife from a weird guy trying to flirt with her

[joemerl]

Weird amount of anti-dwarfism(?) in this story.

Move over, Mordred, we've found the true Big Bad of Arthuriana.