#Lady ragnelle

[queer-ragnelle]

Gawain by Gwen Rowley | More quotes at Arthuriana Daily

[kulttuurinkurittama]

lifeline

Arthuriana August of @caer-gai, getting heated!!

I was gonna draw Kei sitting in a campfire, how the fuck did we end up here? Actually no I'm not defending this one.

[theartofmadeline]

thus goes the story of the loathly lady

[cesarescabinet]

For @caer-gai's Arthuriana August! Prompt 5: Lady of the Hour

Used this prompt to jot down some character designs and to experiment in style a bit, so you get the Orkney Wives this time around! Between their husbands and their in-laws, I imagine them being quite the support group for each other.

(L-R: Ragnelle, Lynette, Lyonesse, Laurel, and Cwyllog)

[gawrkin]

GUINEVERE

IS

SO

Fae-coded

You can almost feel like the Christian writers know that Gwen can't and can never be an ordinary lady, especially within THIS kind of setting - the Arthurian Setting, the pinnacle of the Chivalric Romance genre.

A setting where nothing ordinary or mundane is at the forefront. A setting where men like Arthur and Lancelot exist - Men who are objectively superhuman - both in character and in physicality.

This is a world where Arthur, Lancelot and every other male character has curb-stomped entire armies by their lonesome, go toe-to-toe with fearsome monsters, and endure punishing physical challenges that would kill lesser men.

Where Arthur can be the most charismatic and most virtuous king in the world, ruling over a kingdom with strange habits and customs. Where Lancelot can harbor love so strong, that it can both empower him as much as it kills him.

And these men are in love with Guinevere.

Guinevere, as character in this genre, HAS to be an exemplar female in order to fit in and complement the men in her life. The problem is that the exemplar women of this genre are on the cusp, if not outright, of unchristian status.

Other Arthurian women who are Fae-coded include:

Isolde (who is a "doctor", whose uncle is the giant Morholt)

Enide (who has several cousins with strange-looking horses and another cousin who trapped her lover in an enchanted garden; Chretien de Troyes saw fit to assure the readers that Enide didn't use spells or charms to arm Erec)

Laudine (who owns a magical storm-making fountain and a magic ring)

Lynette & Lyonesse (One is capable of reviving a knight that has been cut to pieces. The other also owns a magic ring. Both are sisters of the Lord of Avalon)

Ragnelle (who has a brother by the name of Gromer Somer Jeure, which means "Man of Summer Day", and is made the mother of Gawain's son Gingalain, who is normally half-fae)

...and all of them are described as unbelievable beauties comparable to Guinevere. Right.

[fadedfrost]

@theladyragnell … I have more? I just never thought anyone else would care, until I made an offhand comment about having these to another author and they did.

[lupines-slash-recs]

Rec: Something In The Air (Is Giving Me Bad Ideas) by lady_ragnell

Title: Something In The Air (Is Giving Me Bad Ideas) Author: lady_ragnell Canon: Supergirl | DCCW Pairing: James Olsen/Winn Schott Jr. Rating: Teen [PG] Word Count: 2,048 Summary: In which everyone thinks Winn and James are dating and it is extremely embarrassing.

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[joemerl]

I finally got around to reading "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." One detail that I hadn't heard about before was the ugly old woman. She's deliberately contrasted with Lady Bertilak, and while we never hear her speak, Gawain apparently spends the days talking to both of them and finds them both to be enjoyable company.

I knew it wasn't going to be right, but a weird idea I had was that it was Ragnelle. And you know, I feel like combining these stories wouldn't be too hard. There's Gawain, having his virtue tested by a beautiful but supposedly wanton woman, but instead winds up with her supposedly ugly but virtuous companion. Both stories even use the setup of "knight has to come back and die because HONOR," and "The Marriage of Sir Gawain" even keeps the Christmas setting. If nothing else this could be a prequel, where Ragnelle decides "yeah, that's the knight I want" and arranges to marry him later.

Instead the old lady was apparently Morgan le Fay. Which doesn't make a ton of sense, but honestly, nothing about her in this story does.

[arthurianashipbracket]

gawain and ragnelle by william henry margetson, the lady of malehaut from the lancelot du lac (paris, bnf, ms fr118) and guinevere by john collier

[ID 1: a greyscale artwork of gawain kneeling and clutching ragnelle's hand. ragnelle is under her curse and is an old woman with a plain dress. they are in a forest clearing and other people are watching on in the background. /end ID 1 ID 2: a medieval style painting of a woman wearing a long red dress. next to it is a painting of a woman with blond plaits wearing white riding a horse and holding flowers. /end ID 2]

gawain is known as the maiden's knight, the defender of women, and so perhaps it makes sense that his most heroic move in this text is giving a woman autonomy and choice. gawain marries ragnelle, cursed to look hideous, to save his uncle, but he treats her with respect throughout. when she reveals that now they are married the curse will be lifted when they are either in private or in public, gawain leaves the choice to ragnelle, and this breaks it for good. ragnelle's smarts and cunning make her a good match for gawain and suited to any new roles she may have to take as the wife of arthur's heir. best sister in law possible.

the lady of malehaut is guinevere's special companion who is the one privy to her and lancelot's affair (aka treason), which is always a solid ship basis. this also works to parallel them with lancelot and galehaut, especially as guinevere sets up galehaut and the lady of malehaut (which, as the submitter pointed out, feels very lavender marriage)

[argeriant18]

I know absolutely nothing about The School of Good and Evil other than that I've seen it lurking around my local bookstore and that I've always wanted to read it and that they the have amazing cover art that is burned to my mind to this day

But I watched the movie and I made myself a little OC who's the daughter of Sir Gawain, making her Tedros' second cousin, who desperately wants to be a knight but keeps getting dragged into the classes with the other girls

[queer-ragnelle]

Gawain by Gwen Rowley | More quotes at Arthuriana Daily

[kulttuurinkurittama]

More doodles of the round table, this time with the added challenge of my pens wanting to die and or explode on the page!

[merilles]

Gareth and Lynette

(For @queer-ragnelle’s May Day Parade!)

Beaumains and the Damosel Savage! Though he wed her sister Lady Lyonors and she his brother Sir Gaheris, they swore to forever remain friends until death do them part.

[cesarescabinet]

Wives of the Orkney Brothers: Old Hollywood Edition

Dame Ragnelle: Lauren Bacall

Lady Laurel: Merle Oberon

Lady Lyonesse: Olivia De Haviland

Lady Lynette: Myrna Loy

St. Cwyllog: Audrey Hepburn

[sickfreaksirkay]

Sir Kay, Seneschal of King Arthur's Court, Harold J. Herman / Illustration from the Mabinogion / The Quest for Olwen, trans. Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley-Holland / The Story of Merlin, trans. Rupert T. Pickens / Illustration from The Quest for Olwen, Margaret Jones / Wace's Roman de Brut, trans. Eugene Mason / The Mabinogion, trans. Lady Charlotte Guest

a collection of sir kay and sir bedivere: companions/lovers/worse, for @queer-ragnelle's may day parade