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Preliminary Call For Beta Readers: The Mighty Knights!3 comments

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: OK, guys, this is it! The Mighty Knights is currently crowned, and will be a fully-birthed draft 0 t … more →

Tags: writing/blogging, king arthur, Fiction, High School, Virginia, Arthur, WIP, morgan, Camelot County

Doing What I Do And Loving It!

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: In my head: Don’t forget to type up the minutes from the last Little theatre meeting, and also … more →

Tags: Books 2, writing/blogging, Teaching, writing, Teaching, king arthur, Research, Pagan, Bible

December 31, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: Arthur’s heraldry, as one might well imagine, shifts and changes as his legend does to compris … more →

Tags: Arthuriana, king arthur, Heraldry, norris j. lacy, british heraldry, Heraldic devices

December 30, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a good one: 12th century writer Robert Biket penned a 580-line poem called the Lai du C … more →

Tags: king arthur, lai, Literature, Guinevere, folklore, Caradoc, Arthurian legend, medieval literary forms

On a Cold Day in December, On the Seventh Floor of a Library, She Reads...

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: In my head: Yay! My article is fact-checked, indexed, and off to the editor! Celebration time! In th … more →

Tags: Books 2, Teaching, Graduate School/Scholarly Activity, Teaching, Arthuriana, king arthur, Celtic, Reading, Literature

December 28, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: There are only five scenes in the 4,346 line, late-14th or 15th century alliterative Morte Arthure i … more →

Tags: king arthur, Literature, Guinevere, alliterative morte arthure

December 27, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day1 comment

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: Greetings, Arthur fanatics! I was paging around in an old book, and stumbled across THIS: Of Merlin … more →

Tags: king arthur, Literature, merlin, united states, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Transcendentalism, American Culture

December 24, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day1 comment

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: For today’s Arthurian fact, in honor of the season, let’s have the introductory stanzas … more →

Tags: king arthur, sir gawain and the green knight, Christmas, Online-Text, beheading game

December 21, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: Here’s an obscure fact I just stumbled across while organizing my newly-painted study (AKA … more →

Tags: king arthur, Literature, folklore, Matter of Britain, Arthur, Legends

December 19, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day2 comments

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: I am rapidly arriving at a point at which I can’t really remember whether or not I have posted … more →

Tags: Middle Ages, king arthur, Matter of Britain, medieval Spanish literature, Iberian Literature, Ibero-Romance literature

December 18, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: We have grown accustomed to teaching that the legend of Arthur flourished in England from the 12th t … more →

Tags: king arthur, Guinevere, Drama, Lady of the Lake, University of Rochester, Vortigern, John Thelwall, the Camelot project, Gothic revival

December 16, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: This is the LAST ONE where I cheat out of actually giving you something shiny and new and truly Arth … more →

Tags: baking, king arthur, Recipes, Food, Holiday Baking, King Arthur Flour Company, harvest pumpkin scones

December 15, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day2 comments

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a recipe from the King Arthur Flour Company, just in time for Christmas and because I … more →

Tags: king arthur, Nantucket cranberry cake, King Arthur Flour Company

December 14, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: Wordless Wednesday(It’s Finals Week…): The Adventures of Lancelot: 1956, 30 episodes. Wh … more →

December 13, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: John Heath-Stubbs wrote a version of the Arthurian tales in 1973 that I am astonished not to have he … more →

Tags: king arthur, Faerie Queene, Spenser, Virgil, Edmund Spenser, norris j. lacy, John Heath Stubbs, Zodiac, Artorius

December 12, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day3 comments

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: With what I laughingly refer to as a “Break Week” coming up (laughing because -what brea … more →

Tags: king arthur, Edward Cullen, Perceval le Gallois, Team Edward, Team Jacob, Eric Rohmer, Fabrice Luchini

December 9, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: You’ve probably noticed, if you have scrolled through Cerridwen’s Calendar up at the top … more →

Tags: king arthur, YouTube, Holy Grail, Mardi Gras, King Arthur Krewe, New Orleans

December 8, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day1 comment

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: Continuing on our world tour of Arthurian texts, since we did a bit o’ Spanish yesterday, how … more →

Tags: king arthur, french language, Holy Grail, Spanish language, Graal, Portuguese, Quest for the Saint Grail

December 7, 2011 Arthurian Fact of the Day

Cerridwen wrote 1 year ago: We’ve been doing the Arthurian fact of the day thing for a while now. We’ve covered Engl … more →

Tags: king arthur, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, spanish, Spanish Literature, Jofre


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