"A Black and White Violet Summer Sky..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Reproduced from my FaceBook, but:

......I am doing research for a paper on chivalric codes and courtly love right now, and I just read this line: "Chapter 1, a prelude of sorts, traces the brief history of Parzifal's penis, from its debut in Wolfram's Parzival, through its return engagement in Albrecht's Jungerer Titurel, to its surprising failure to make an appearance in the Rappoltsteiner Parzifal". WHAT. WHAT. I don't even--WHAT.

I mean, admittedly it is a book about eroticism in chivalric literature, but-- OH MY HEAD.

Source.

Edit: SAME SOURCE contains a reference to Gawain dying of laughter at finding out about Some Guy's castration. Oh, Gawain. <3 Stay classy.

Edit 2: Son of Edit: EVEN BETTER. a different source, on the subject of chivalry towards women: "Examples of knightly police action on behalf of women include killing a serial rapist (Book VI, chapter 5. Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur(London: Penguin, 1969))". YESSS. Knightly police action.

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[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

i LOVE my fandom.

Really? I think it makes perfect sense in the scheme of chivalric literature. People get put to death for much smaller things (in Erec and Enide, a knight nearly gets killed because his dwarf whips Guenever's maid).