Gawain Project: Brothers & Sisters, p. 135

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"We Made It" illustration: check.

Bookmark for Bookdepository: check.

Page 135: check - but only just. I apologise for the late posting hour and the hasty and less-than-stellar art (but would you believe I have recently had some equally hasty published work in my hands? That's no excuse for my own hasty stuff, but really...! *shakes head*). As it is, I'm happy I got to post at all...

I still need sleep. Which you can tell by the totally unintended innuendo in some of the stuff below :P.


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A runaway slave boy begs Arthur to save his family from their Saxon masters. Cei doesn't trust the boy, but Arthur feels inspired. He decides to ride for Venta. And there he is going to do something everybody could have predicted. Some other people are going to try first though.




Concrit is still and always welcome :).

THE STORY SO FAR:

Part I: The Darkest Hour
1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-15, 16-18, 19-21, 22-24, 25-27, 28-31, 32-35, 36-40, 41-44, 45-47, 48-50, 51-53, 54-57, 58-60, 61-64, 65-66, 67-69, 70-73, 74-75, 76-81, 82-84, 85-87, 88-90, 91-92, 93-97, 98-101, 102-103, 104-108, 109-111, 112-114, 115-119

Interlude: The Sword of Kings
1-4, 5-11


Part II: Sunrise
Brothers and Sisters
1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-15, 16-18, 19-21, 22-24, 25-27, 28-30,31-33, 34-36, 37-39, 40-42, 43-45, 46-48, 49-51, 52-54, 55-57, 58-60, 61-63, 64-66, 67-69, 70-72, 73-75, 76-78, 79-81, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134.

Comments

[ms-geekette.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that sword is pretty wild. And now I want to know why it was bent like that, too! :-D

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Archeologists surmise that swords were bent like that (this one is in a circle, which is kind of special, but most are just plied in two or three) to 'kill' the sword and thus make it pass into the Otherworld, where it could be used normally. So this sword accompanied its master into death. Often the weapons that are made unusable like this are really fine items and seemingly too fancy for use in real life. Many of them were brandnew too!

[ctd. in my reply to Cecilia below :)]

[ms-geekette.livejournal.com]

I really haven't delved in Celtic burial traditions (only am familiar with some ritual killings, like bog bodies), but that's neat that it could be a basis for King Arthur.