Thanks all! The last line of this formerly lost work has Launcelot riding as fast as a horse could go, trying to catch King Arthur who was on his way to a distant battle, shouting, "King Arthur! You gave me the wrong key!"
Posted on 03/31/2025 6:39:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In 2019, scholars at Cambridge University Library discovered an extremely rare 750-year-old text on the legends of King Arthur hiding in plain sight. A fragment of the fragile manuscript had been repurposed in the binding of a 16th-century property record, making it almost impossible to study the medieval text without dismantling and certainly damaging the record’s cover. Almost impossible—but not completely.
An interdisciplinary team of scholars from the University of Cambridge used various advanced imaging techniques to create a virtual copy of the binding, allowing them to digitally unfold the rare text without having to damage it or the property record. This ground-breaking approach also preserves the artifact as an example of 16th-century archival binding practice, which is “a piece of history in its own right,” Irène Fabry-Tehranchi, a French Specialist in Collections and Academic Liaison at Cambridge University Library who was involved in the project, explained in a university statement.
Written in the first half of the 13th century, it recounts the Arthurian legends in a monumental five-part epic prose. The fragment found at Cambridge University Library is from the Suite Vulgate du Merlin, a part of the Vulgate Cycle that recounts events that take place after King Arthur’s coronation. One passage from the fragment tells of the Christian victory over the Saxons at the Battle of Cambénic involving the knight Gauvin (also Gawain) with his Excalibur sword. Another recounts when a disguised Merlin appears at King Arthur’s court during the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
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Always the bureaucrats, turning gold into sh!t.
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This is a BIG DEAL.It has a direct impact on history because of where it was written.
If you are serious about Arthur and his court, read the books of Norma Lorre Goodrich, who accomplished research in 4 different languages, and used the incidence of folk tales in certain locations to map the actual areas where King Arthur exercised his reign.She exposes a Celtic Church with both men and women in the priesthood. A fascinating reveal of the Grail Church later banned by Rome.
I found the Isle of Avalon in the Torah.
No wonder it’s a mystery. Nobody’s apparently reading that part, or surely it would have been located by now.
I always find the best stuff!
Reading it now! :-)
GMTA.🤣
I thought you would be interested. 😉
Part of Arthurian legend is that he will return and save England when it is at its lowest ebb. Personally I believe that may be as early as next week.
Thanks all! The last line of this formerly lost work has Launcelot riding as fast as a horse could go, trying to catch King Arthur who was on his way to a distant battle, shouting, "King Arthur! You gave me the wrong key!"
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(Guinevere is a corruption of Welsh, "white shadow")
Many thanks for the link!
“...that may be as early as next week...”
Not a millisecond too soon....
We’re ALL just SO very well read! hehehehehe
I just picked up a copy of “the Once and Future King”.
(Coincidence?)
Ahhh back when Anglos were happily and reliably Catholic...
There was a young knight, sir Lancelot.
He much liked to sing and dance a lot.
When he befell to stench (?)
a presentable wench,
the front of pants would advance a lot.
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