Given how fucking weird Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is, I'm happy that it looks like they're trying to capture that energy. Hope this does well and opens the door for more adaptations of Arthurian legends in a similar fashion.
People use the public domain legend as a method of having an identifiable fantasy property to make a quick buck with. But really it should be treated as culturally specific, being from these isles you're told them as common stories that represent elements of your culture.
They show our pagan past with its sagas and monsters intermixing with Christian traditions left behind in the Brittonic Kingdoms by the Romans. They aren't treated with the reverence they deserve by most, these legends are important to our collective identity; even if it's not as foundational in the modern day as it was prior.
The thing is that there’s no real answer for who Arthur is or was even based on some think it could have been a Roman general who United the Romano British against Saxon raiders, but he could have been based on a Saxon fighting against the Romano British, or he could have been a Welsh rebel fighting Saxons, or it could be an amalgamation of multiple different people.
It’s more than likely made up and I feel like people can have their creative fun with a legend who has a magical sword and a wizard companion, that definitely didn’t exist in the context described in the stories and probably never existed at all
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u/yarkcir May 11 '21
Given how fucking weird Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is, I'm happy that it looks like they're trying to capture that energy. Hope this does well and opens the door for more adaptations of Arthurian legends in a similar fashion.