(You don't need to know what I'm talking about on this first page to follow this piece. If you want to know exactly what I'm talking about, the research isn't difficult. There are plenty of Wikipedia articles and YouTube videos available. I feel like I don't really have to go into the specifics because I'm not talking about specifics. Not really. Also, Tristan cum King Arthur is the foundation of Western storytelling. Not just Western Romantic storytelling. I feel like you probably should know this, whether you do or don't. So do yourself a favor.) I've been reading the corpus of King Arthur fiction. The Mabinogion , Chretien de Troyes... As many commentaries as I can find which are relevant to my questions about the texts.... The reading is never done. There's a lot of scholarship on this topic I disagree with. It seems to me that Historians ignore Folklore and Folklore-ologists (Narratologists? Anthropologists?) ignore History. What is eviden...
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