Hrefna (DHC) on Nostr: While researching fairy stories I stumbled into the story of Childe Rowland—which ...

While researching fairy stories I stumbled into the story of Childe Rowland—which involved a child of Guinevere, Merlin showing up, etc in this story of the fairylands—and was chatting with my partner about it and how Arthurian characters are basically "stock characters" of a certain era: they have certain traits and show up together in certain ways to tell whatever story.

My partner then sent me this from an intro to Perlesvaus.

#ArthurianLiterature is really just fanfic all the way down.