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| Knights of the round table by Evrard d'Espinques |
The Drawing of the Sword
- I knew Arthur was the son of Uther, and I knew he pulled the sword out of the stone. I guess I never realized that the stone could only be pulled out by one with the right blood instead of by someone who would make a good king.
- This section talks about how Merlin would have failed if not his obedience to Merlin's orders. Obedience in an interesting choice of work to use here.
- This story has the first mention of Morgan Le Fay “your sister shall have a child who shall destroy you and all your knights.”
- Lots of foreshadowing at the end of this story. Merlin has many prophecies.
- Somebody asking for a favor at an unknown time is always an ominous things, many characters in stories blindly agree to a future favor.
- This is an interesting story. Not a whole lot happens but it ties many pieces of the large story together. It talks about how Arthur got the round table and how he came to marry Guenevere.
- Sections like these, which fill in the gaps, are important to a story.
- Merline falls in love with a women, nobody is safe from their own heart.
- Even when people know prophesies, know bad tings that will happen to them, they are unable to change the course of events. Sometimes by trying to change things, they actually trigger the events themselves. I've always found it interesting when a prophesy only comes to pass because people knew about the prophesy.
- Vivian in the name of the women who tricks Merlin.
- Morgan hates Arthur because he killed a knight who she loved.
- Morgan Le Fay steels only the scabbard of Excalibur, which is what Merlin told Arthur was the valuable part.
- Morgan is a very powerful magician if she can turn herself and all her men into blocks of marble.
- Morgan tried to kill Arthur by giving him an enchanted mantle covered in jewels.
- The knights of the round table neglected many of their other duties to pursue to holy grail.
- There are conflicting stories about what the grail is.
- It is interesting that half of the time Arther is refereed to as the king. To me this is a little confusing, because there have been other kings, and there are other kings in other lands.
- This story is interesting, because it is unclear is part of this story is a dream.
- An image of the holy grail presents itself to king Arthur and the knights of the round table.
- All 150 knights of the round table decide to quest for the holy grail.
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