#14

Prince Valiant really did it for me as a kid. So did Arthur’s quest at lands end. Need to read more cause I’ve got a few King Arthur books lying about.

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#15

Backdoor Slutz 7

#16

I much prefer Cumalot

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#17

Big fan of the 90s BBC miniseries with ray winstone and keith chegwin

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#18

desperate to say Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, but it wouldn’t be true
(it’s probably the TH White one)

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#19

The one called Merlin where Jurassic Park was Merlin

#20

Going to one-up @mrmrongov and say mine actually is Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur. Did it at uni and was shocked by how modern it feels and well it reads. It basically has every element of the Matter of Britain in it so every other version is in debt to it. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a version that really does justice to the one that was in my head when I read it.

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#21

^This
My 4th Year Eng Lit teacher loved Le Morte d’Arthur and his enthusiasm about it was contagious

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#22

cool - I have to admit, I suspected it would be tedious, but I’ll add it to my list of things to read!

#23

Prince Valiant had the best theme tune of any cartoon at the time. Proper lighters-in-the-air soft rock anthem:

#24

It’s quite easy to get into because it’s basically a collection of hundreds of really short stories about all the knights, tied together into these larger themes. It all rollocks along very matter of factly but every so often you get this great image or metaphor. I wouldn’t try and read it start to finish but it’s great for dipping in and out of.

#25

serious answer, it’s this:

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arthurian legend via french existentialism :smiley:

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#26

That looks like my kind of shit.

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#27

I liked David Gemmell’s Sipstrassi novels as a kid, and their take on the Arthurian legend is a good one. I don’t know if they’d stand up now.

#28

i think it was a big influence on monty python’s holy grail and is slightly reminiscent of it at times unfortunately but still very good!

#29

Enjoyed this a teenager. Gorgeous Brian Bolland art.

#30

Sword in the Stone was alright. and Monty Python. The rest is for St George Cross Brexit Tories innit?

#31

When was King Arthur supposed to have happened? Pre-Roman?

#32

Late/post roman

#33

Yeah, the fuzzy bit of history between the Romans leaving and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon control. But when medieval writers wrote about it, they just transposed all the elements of their own time (fancy castles, armoured knights on horseback, tournaments and fair maidens etc) into the “historical” tales, so the setting of the stories is totally ahistorical and anachronistic.

It would be like us writing stories about Elizabethan England where everyone has guns and rides motorbikes i.e. fucking wicked.