#sir Perceval

[queer-ragnelle]

Beginner’s Guide to Medieval Arthuriana

Just starting out at a loss for where to begin?

Here’s a guide for introductory Medieval texts and informational resources ordered from most newbie friendly to complex. Guidebooks and encyclopedias are listed last.

All PDFs link to Google drive and can be found at @arthurianpreservationproject. This post will be updated as needed.

Pre-Existing Resources

Hi-Lo Arthuriana

Medieval Literature by Language

Retellings by Date

Films by Date

TV Shows by Date

Documentaries by Date

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Medieval Literature

Page (No Knowledge Required)

The Vulgate Cycle | Navigation Guide | Vulgate Reader (French)

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (Middle English)

The Marriage of Sir Gawain (Middle English)

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Middle English)

Sir Lanval (French) | Sir Launfal (Middle English)

The Welsh Triads (Welsh)

Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory (Middle English)

Squire (Base Knowledge Recommended)

Owain (Welsh) | Yvain (French) | Iwein (German) | Ywain (Middle English) | Íven (Norse)

Geraint (Welsh) | Erec (French)| Erec (German) | Erex (Norse)

King Artus (Hebrew)

Morien (Dutch)

Knight (Extensive Knowledge Recommended)

The History of The King's of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin)

Alliterative Morte Arthure (Middle English)

The Marvels of Rigomer (French)

Jaufre (Occitan/Tagalog)

Le Bel Inconnu (French) | Gliglois (French) | Wigalois (German) | Vidvilt (Yiddish) | Sir Libeaus Desconus (Middle English) | Carduino (Italian)

Here Be Dragons (Weird or Arthurian Adjacent)

The Crop-Eared Dog (Irish)

Perceforest | A Perceforest Reader (French)

Le Roman de Silence (French)

Grail Quest

Peredur (Welsh) | Perceval + Continuations (French) | Parzival (German) | Parceval (Norse)

The Crown by Heinrich von dem Türlin (Diu Crône) (German)

The High Book of The Grail (Perlesvaus) (French)

The History of The Holy Grail (Vulgate) (French)

The Quest for the Holy Grail (Vulgate) (French)

The Quest for The Holy Grail (Post-Vulgate) (French)

Merlin and The Grail by Robert de Boron (French)

The Legend of The Grail (French)

Lancelot Texts

Knight of The Cart by Chrétien de Troyes (French)

Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven (German)

Spanish Lancelot Ballads (Spanish)

The Lancelot Compilation (Dutch)

Gawain Texts

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Middle English)

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (Middle English)

Sir Gawain Eleven Romances and Tales (Middle English)

Sir Gawain and The Lady of Lys (French)

The Knight of The Two Swords (French)

The Turk and Sir Gawain (Middle English)

Perilous Graveyard (French)

Roman van Walewein (Dutch)

De Ortu Waluuanii (Latin)

Valvens Þáttr (Norse)

Tristan/Isolde Texts

Béroul & Les Folies (French)

The Romance of Tristan (Prose Tristan) (French)

Tristan and The Round Table (La Tavola Ritonda) | Italian Name Guide (Italian)

Tristano Panciatichiano (Italian)

Tristano Riccardiano (Italian)

Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg (German)

Byelorussian Tristan (Russian)

The Tristan Legend (Norse)

Educational/Informational Resources

Encyclopedias & Handbooks

The Arthurian Companion by Phyllis Ann Karr

The New Arthurian Encyclopedia by Norris J. Lacy

The Arthurian Handbook by Norris J. Lacy & Geoffrey Ashe

The Arthurian Name Dictionary by Christopher W. Bruce

The King Who Was and Will Be by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Warriors of Arthur by John Matthews, Bob Stewart, & Richard Hook

Essays & Guides

A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes edited by Joan Tasker & Norris J. Lacy

A Companion to Malory edited by Elizabeth Archibald

A Companion to The Lancelot-Grail Cycle edited by Carol Dover

A Companion to the Gawain-Poet edited by Derek Brewer

Arthur in Welsh Medieval Literature by O. J. Padel

Diu Crône and The Medieval Arthurian Cycle by Neil Thomas

Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois: Intertextuality & Interpretation by Neil Thomas

The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac by Jessie Weston

The Legend of Sir Gawain by Jessie Weston

[katabay]

SUBTEXT

so I've focused in on Perceval and Bors before, and I've done Perceval and Gender (for more on this specifically, see: Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey) and did a whole comic that leaned into some subtext™ on temptation, but actually let's throw out the subtext! let's bring Augustine into this!!

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

introduction to Confessions, Augustine (trans. Sarah Ruden)

so for perceval a knight is both the gender he wants to perform but also something that is expressly compared to god, and if god is a lover that seduces. well. does this not also apply to knights as well?

Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, Identity, and Artistic Expression, James M. Saslow

and while galahad might be the obvious choice, I think perceval's relationship with bors during the grail quest narrative is more interesting. it's not god that transforms perceval, it's the sight of knights for the first time. something in here specifically is incredibly intriguing to me, but there's a different text I need to finish reading to fully form some thoughts on it.

le Morte d’Arthur

and finally! tentatively. I think I might slowly start turning this idea I had a couple years back into a fully formed comic. we'll see! I had most of it blocked out, but halfway through reading augustine's confessions, I think was when perceval finally clicked for me as a character in a later narrative cycle setting. I think I might have to spend a lot of time doing some visual research first because my god I cannot consistently draw armor to save my life......back when I lived in new england, there was a museum with a wonderful medieval armor collection I could visit.....alas.........I will have to hit the books (literally, I have a collection of books on medieval armor but this is apparently the one thing I can't visualize properly in my imagination. save me, museum collections, you're my only hope)

⭐️ credits for the collage panels! (all open access or public domain, etc.)

-Saint George and the Dragon -Saint George and the Dragon (different one lmao) -Pages and Knights, Frontispiece for "The Man at Arms" -Cloisters

⭐ if you like my comics and have a couple bucks, I have a tip jar (ko-fi)!

⭐ and other places I'm at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

[lancelots-squire]

writing some good old porn btw........ sir perceval who views knighthood as godly....... who views his love of knights as noble........ who cannot comprehend how the beauty of two men tangling together can be considered sin........

[mordred-galahad]

This is how Tall. To me.

[pedroam-bang]

The Order: 1886 (2015)

[bigbysinterposinghand]

I made a reference for the colour palettes of the Astro-Knights, including the outfits you can get.

Merlin is also here.

Under the cut, I'm also going to include the colour palettes for my personal fanon/headcanon Astro-Knights.

Heart Astro-Knight: Sir Bedwyn

Black Dark Astro-Knight: Sir Perceval

Purple Dark Astro-Knight: Ser Bors

Earth Astro-Knight: Princess Elyana

The Chosen One (the Player) isn't included here, because in the future, I plan to try to design what a special Chosen Astro Knight armour would look like.

[queer-ragnelle]

Great news! They do this in most versions of the grail story!!!!! It's so sweet. Love them. :^)

Perceval: The Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes || Perceval (1978)

I am thrilled to announce that Perceval/Peredur and Gawain/Gwalchmai holding hands is canon in both The Mabinogion and The High History of the Holy Graal.

I think this is sometimes interpreted as romantic but to me it feels more like a kid moment.

(This is my new best friend who I met at the playground magic forest, he's really good at fighting!! Come on you have to meet my other friends King Arthur and Joseus the Hermit who are also good at fighting! Maybe we can all sever some heads together before I have to go home for supper!)

[queer-ragnelle]

consistently overestimating the general public’s level of arthurian understanding.

[lancelots-squire]

Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Arthurian Mythology, Arthurian Mythology & Related Fandoms Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Sir Percival/Sir Gawain, Sir Gawain/Sir Percival, Gawain/Percival (Arthurian Myth) Characters: Percival (Arthurian Myth), Gawain (Arthurian Myth) Additional Tags: Masturbation, guided masturbation, Power Imbalance, Trans Male Character, trans percival, FTM, Knight kink, t4t, Mutual Masturbation, Vaginal Fingering, Oral Sex, gawain fucks percival let's gooo, Bottom Percival, Gawain is a top, Trans Gawain Summary:

Perceval is new to knighthood, but he delights in watching the other men practise their battling; the silver glints of armour, the grunts and moans... it all consumes him. When Gawain stumbles upon a flushed Perceval, he invites the younger knight back to his room, and thus begins a teaching session. Perceval later comes back for more, and is even more surprised by what happens next.

[katabay]

a little one shot scene that I did back when I was sick uhhhhh last year. since it's now 2025. jesus christ, the passage of time sure is a concept.

anyway, I think this is as done as this page is ever going to get, partially because I decided to go in a different direction with fashion decisions, and I like how kay's hair turned out, so I'm freeing it from my WIP folder :)

[queer-ragnelle]

You’ll have to fight Gingalain for him, he’s giving Perceval to his dad for Christmas.

merry christmas everyone

[achillesuwu]

You see how people have many look-alike in this world ? well what if Merlin find a Ygraine looks alike and think surely, surely, to means Arthur will be back so he starts to follow her life closely and hope but it’s all in vain because she is not Ygraine. She is just a look alike, the first of many, they don’t always have the same skin color, the same eyes, the same hair, the same voice, the same height but they have their face and their smile.

[rainbluealoekitten]

i cannot stop thinking about perceval in the forest seeing knights for the first time and believing they are angels..... there is no one like him and i'm sick

[queer-ragnelle]

I cannot even fathom how it got this info. I can count the number of books the two characters cohabitate on one hand. Sometimes random names are thrown around or characters are combined but????

Hello??? New Arthurian lore just dropped I guess

[mordredpendragon]

Perceval 4th Continuation / via Arthurian Preservation Project

Mordred and Percival's duel in the Perceval Continuations. It seems like they were evenly matched! But in the end, Percival won and Mordred begs him for mercy, to which Percival then sends him off to Arthur's court as his prisoner.

bonus:

[gawrkin]

(Source: Perceval, Story of the Grail - Second Continuation)

60 years old is considered young, huh?

Lord knows how many demon/fairy hybrid bastard children Merlin had sired over the years.