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Revisiting Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur (1470) makes me appreciate Tennyson’s correction of Malory in Idylls of the King (1885).
A mini🧵 on Lancelot and Arthur--
Some people, redpill bros in particular, suggest that chivalry and simping are synonymous, or that the one leads to the other.
I aim to clarify in this 🧵 that such accusations are false.
Chivalry: Simping:
This is the Chivalry Guild's response to slander: https://t.co/NDi533nCGO
Not only was Richard the Lionheart "first in every attack," in the words of his fellow crusader Geoffry de Vinsauf, but he also made a point, mid-battle, of relocating himself “wherever the attacks of the Turks raged the hottest.”
King!
Gotta love reading about Richard or Roland or El Cid bringing their swords down so hard that they slice their opponents in half. Truly incredible one-rep max strength.
A man like George hunts the dragon in its lair.
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