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haptalaonA wintery Christmas-tide watch - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1990). Written by Dave Rudkin, well-known master of british TV christo-pagan pastoral weird, and using what to my ear is a lot of the original language, it has a deep ancient strangeness.
Cosy up warm with this one, and put a stew on the hob and some mead out to warm, and you will feel footsteps in your heart and the warmth of the fire.
Fencraft-specific spiritual notes below the cut
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I'm tentatively classing this one as Official Lore, relating to the Winter King, however the next step is to read the book and watch some lectures on youtube. Nevertheless, a different sense from the book would not necessarily un-place the television broadcast from the List, because we're not snobby about our sources here.
Some particular Winter King notes:
Most importantly, something to focus on at this time of year, which feels "ours". I definitely plan to give this another watch later in December.
Cosy up warm with this one, and put a stew on the hob and some mead out to warm, and you will feel footsteps in your heart and the warmth of the fire.
Fencraft-specific spiritual notes below the cut
Enter your cut contents here.
I'm tentatively classing this one as Official Lore, relating to the Winter King, however the next step is to read the book and watch some lectures on youtube. Nevertheless, a different sense from the book would not necessarily un-place the television broadcast from the List, because we're not snobby about our sources here.
Some particular Winter King notes:
- Brotherhood of men, in a castle (Arthur's knights; Gawain and Bertilak)
- Christmas-tide
- Lady Bertilak as Witch Queen - cold, pale like snow, manipulative, has magical powers
- Green Knight as both ruddy-autumn and summer's green
- a story of a failure, and about what it is to be dutiful, and all in all, a meditation on the qualities of a good knight - an interior-facing tale, not an exterior-facing one
- depicts the sort of Medieval Christianity which we're quite interested in - Christianity being, of course, part of the lore of the land, unavoidably so, so we cannot avoid it (as some similar traditions do) but rather incorporate it.
- finding a castle in the wilderness which is warm, safe, filled with food and joy; as we seek to do in the depths of winter.
- plus, more queer fiction for the list - a general rarity, to find non-mainstream voices and images in the kinds of furrows I'm ploughing.
Most importantly, something to focus on at this time of year, which feels "ours". I definitely plan to give this another watch later in December.
