Status Updates From Arthurian Romances

[x] Erec and Enide
[x] Cliges
[ ] The Knight of the Cart
[ ] The Knight of the Lion
[ ] The Story of the Grail

Chretien, explaining the premise of "Cliges" to Marie de Champagne: "Tristan and Isolde are ADULTERERS and TERRIBLE, but my OCs are PURE and BASED because they're CHRISTIANS and NOT ADULTERERS"

Marie: "...Okay, fine, whatever, but after this you need to write Lancelot x Guinevere"

[x] Erec and Enide
[ ] Cliges
[ ] The Knight of the Cart
[ ] The Knight of the Lion
[ ] The Story of the Grail

Not only are Erec and Enide endearingly comic, the narrative voice is pretty sassy: “I could tell you about xyz, but I have other things I’d rather do.” (a paraphrase, but not by much)

I laughed when a count tries to woo Enide with a dramatic speech, and she replies, “Okay, but I don’t care.”

still not over lancelot almost jumping out of the window because he lost sight of guinevere, and gawain mistaking it for him attempting suicide and stopping him, followed by a random maid telling lancelot to actually kill himself… 10/10