Gawain Project: Brothers & Sisters, p. 135

[sigune]

"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

[cabepfir.livejournal.com]

Oh, why is the sword twirled around? That's really surprising for me.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

[See above for the first part :)]

So: this sword was ritually 'killed' so that its ghost might be used by its master in the Otherworld - but many more have been found in pools, lakes and rivers, in which they seem to have been thrown by way of offering or sacrifice. (There are MASSES of them in La Tène, but they are found all over the Celtic territory.)

And the good bit: it is believed that the idea of Excalibur as the sword that has to be returned to a lake has its origins in this practice :).