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When we left king Arthur, the monstrous Questing Beast was lumbering toward him. We'll learn all about that beast and the line of kings cursed to hunt it. Then, Merlin shows up with a chilling plan to solve the problem of the child that is destined to grow up to destroy Arthur. We'll also meet Balin, a disgraced knight who just got out of jail and meets with an unexpected quest for redemption...that might just curse all of England.
This one was the episode I was looking forward to when I started this run of King Arthur stories. The odd and unsavory origins of the Questing Beast as well as the massacre of infants to try to stop the rise of Mordred in the future were both insane twists in the Arthurian legend that I was surprised existed. Like I said in the podcast, I remembered reading this when I was twelve. I learned that not only was Merlin half demon, but King Arthur had engineered the deaths of so many innocents. It was astounding, and I was so surprised by it that I figured it couldn't be right and put down Le Morte d' Arthur.
But it was right, and the May Day Massacre is one of the lowest points in the King Arthur stories. I tried to set it up in the narrative so that it would be believable and, while not justifiable by any means, at least that it fit with the story.
The justification I gave for it was based on a few later academic readings of the event. No one in the early stories seems to make a judgement on it. It is simply presented that the honorable and wise King Arthur murdered several infants, and then the story moves on. It is oddly atypical and nowhere in any of the other stories we've told has the killing of children been treated so matter-of-factly. This isn't an exhaustive list, but even Cu Chulainn and Sigmund, who had no problem with killing, took issue with the excessive and unnecessary deaths of children (Cu Chulainn with the boy troops and Sigmund with Signy asking him to kill MORE of her children).
I was also pleasantly surprised by the story of Balin, which will be told in its entirety next week. He's a knight I only knew a little about, but when we get into his story, we are in true medieval fantasy. Gone are the psuedo-historical days of Vortigern and Uther. We are in the world of magic swords and mysterious knights, like back with Yvain in 1A. His story is much better than Yvain's though, and though his lack of foresight, he curses England to decades of violence and misfortune.
Rome (mostly) fell in 476 AD, though that isn't a hard date. It's an easy one, because that's when Odoacer deposed the child emperor Romulus Augustulus. The Western Empire didn't immediately cease to exist, but there definitely weren't legions going to the provinces demanding tribute to Rome. The Western Empire was done.
The Eastern Empire, though, which was called the Byzantine Empire, was very much still in existence, and would be until the Turks started blowing through the Theodosian Walls in the 1400s. It ruled from Constantinople, and remains in power throughout the Arthurian legends. The Prose Merlin mentions that it was warriors from Byzantium that came to Arthur, but in other places Arthur is known for defeating the troop of the (remember, non-existent) Western Empire and effectively becoming the Emperor of Rome.
Regardless of which version didn't actually happen, the position of Roman emperor didn't exist at this time, and there was never any Lucius among the Byzantine emperors. Now I can pat myself on the back for thoroughly picking apart a story that wasn't ever meant to be historical.
First, the title ("Mayday") is an international distress signal and doesn't have anything to do with May Day, the spring-time holiday. It's from the French "m'aider", a shortened version of "venez m'aider" (meaning "come and help me")
Interestingly, the Vulgate Cycle has a different, not-tragic ending to the story. Mordred somehow gets separated from the boat and the rest of the infants sail safely to France, where they are taken in and cared for. At least some writers could see the problematic optics of having your famous legendary king sending infants to their deaths.
I'm forming an LLC, and I almost named it "Questing Beast Media" not really understanding the background behind the thing. Even the most cursory looks at Wikipedia can tell you that the beast is an enduring symbol "of the incest, violence, and chaos that eventually destroys Arthur's kingdom." Eek.
Don't hate me, but I actually haven't read The Once and Future King. I plan on it, but I went years without reading it, and at this point I don't want it to color how I tell the Arthurian legends. It's played an enormous role in our modern-day understanding of the legends, and Pellinore and the Questing Beast have a much warmer, much more humorous relationship in that novel than they do in the legends.
Le Morte d'Arthur is still a big one right now, as well as the Vulgate-Cycle and the Post-Vulgate cycle. Those three are the big ones, but like last week, I'm still using the Prose Merlin, the Roman du Brut. I looked into other versions of the Questing Beast, like that in the one of Perlesvaus, but it was so radically different than our accepted notions I opted not the mention of that. In that one, the Questing beast is a small, holy creature who is constantly being chased by wild dogs.
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In Welsh sources, Arthur is portrayed as a leader of the post-Roman Britons in battles against the Anglo-Saxons in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. He first appears in two early medieval historical sources, the Annales Cambriae and the Historia Brittonum, but these date to 300 years after he is supposed to have lived, and most historians who study the period do not consider him a historical figure.[2][3] His name also occurs in early Welsh poetic sources such as Y Gododdin.[4] The character developed through Welsh mythology, appearing either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh otherworld Annwn.[5]
The legendary Arthur developed as a figure of international interest largely through the popularity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful and imaginative 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain).[6] Geoffrey depicted Arthur as a king of Britain who defeated the Saxons and established a vast empire. Many elements and incidents that are now an integral part of the Arthurian story appear in Geoffrey's Historia, including Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, the magician Merlin, Arthur's wife Guinevere, the sword Excalibur, Arthur's conception at Tintagel, his final battle against Mordred at Camlann, and final rest in Avalon. The 12th-century French writer Chrtien de Troyes, who added Lancelot and the Holy Grail to the story, began the genre of Arthurian romance that became a significant strand of medieval literature. In these French stories, the narrative focus often shifts from King Arthur himself to other characters, such as various Knights of the Round Table. The themes, events and characters of the Arthurian legend vary widely from text to text, and there is no one canonical version. Arthurian literature thrived during the Middle Ages but waned in the centuries that followed, until it experienced a major resurgence in the 19th century. In the 21st century, the legend continues to have prominence, not only in literature but also in adaptations for theatre, film, television, comics and other media.
The Historia Brittonum, a 9th-century Latin historical compilation attributed in some late manuscripts to a Welsh cleric called Nennius, contains the first datable mention of King Arthur, listing twelve battles that Arthur fought. These culminate in the Battle of Badon, where he is said to have single-handedly killed 960 men. Recent studies question the reliability of the Historia Brittonum.[7]
Archaeological evidence in the Low Countries and what was to become England shows early Anglo-Saxon migration to Great Britain reversed between 500 and 550, which concurs with Frankish chronicles.[8] John Davies notes this as consistent with the British victory at Badon Hill, attributed to Arthur by Nennius.[8] The monks of Glastonbury are also said to have discovered the grave of Arthur in 1180.[9]
Problems have been identified, however, with using this source to support the Historia Brittonum's account. The latest research shows that the Annales Cambriae was based on a chronicle begun in the late 8th century in Wales. Additionally, the complex textual history of the Annales Cambriae precludes any certainty that the Arthurian annals were added to it even that early. They were more likely added at some point in the 10th century and may never have existed in any earlier set of annals. The Badon entry probably derived from the Historia Brittonum.[10]
This lack of convincing early evidence is the reason many recent historians exclude Arthur from their accounts of sub-Roman Britain. In the view of historian Thomas Charles-Edwards, "at this stage of the enquiry, one can only say that there may well have been an historical Arthur [but ...] the historian can as yet say nothing of value about him".[11] These modern admissions of ignorance are a relatively recent trend; earlier generations of historians were less sceptical. The historian John Morris made the putative reign of Arthur the organising principle of his history of sub-Roman Britain and Ireland, The Age of Arthur (1973). Even so, he found little to say about a historical Arthur.[12]
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