67A-Gawain: To the Dogs

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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You probably had to read the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in high school. I know I did, and it's a great story. There are beheadings, green guys, confusing interactions with ladies. It might be one of the most violent non-Die Hard Christmas stories. Anyway, everyone knows that. You probably don't know the story I'll tell today. It's of how Gawain grew into the paragon of virtue he's known as in the legends. It involves, of course, dog parties, inept knights, and the most grotesque piece of neckwear we will ever talk about on this podcast. The creature is a bunch of tiny guys who want to hang out in your room and dance, as long as you're cool with it. Just kidding - they don't care if you're cool with it. Music: "Quiet Still" "Plaque" "Pick up the Tempo" "Marble Transit" "Chapel Bottom" "Drifting Spade" by Blue Dot Sessions "Flapjacks" "Bumble" "Mutinee" "Springtime" by Podington Bear

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0:00.0	This week, on the Myths and Legends podcast, it's the start of the story of Gawain,
0:04.7	one of the most famous nights of the roundtable. And you'll see that if at first you don't succeed,
0:09.6	you might be a medieval British knight, and that if a hairy green stranger asks you to play a game,
0:15.1	just walk away. The creature this week isn't that annoying, as long as you don't line a bunch of
0:20.9	tiny samurai having a dance party in your bedroom at 3 in the morning. This is the Myths and Legends
0:31.4	podcast, episode 67A, to the dogs. This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore.
0:44.0	Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins.
0:48.5	Although it's our stories you might not have heard, but really should. You don't technically have
0:53.6	to have heard any of the previous King Arthur episodes to jump in for this one, but if you haven't
0:58.1	heard episodes 27A or C, it would probably be a good idea to go back and listen to those. I'm about
1:03.9	to get a little spoilery with those episodes, so if you haven't heard them, but want to follow the
1:08.6	role the coaster of tragedy and ridiculousness that is the Arthurian legends, you might want to
1:13.0	go download those first. Previously on the King Arthur story, Arthur became King of the Britons,
1:17.8	with an O. And his rule was contested by a lot of people, a lot of the kings underneath him.
1:22.8	For some reason they weren't cool with the reasonings of because of Wizard said so.
1:27.6	Anyway, he put down the rebellions, mainly led by King Lot, and a couple years later,
1:33.2	proceeded to sleep with Lot's wife, when they were both visiting the same castle. She was also
1:38.0	Arthur's half sister, though he didn't know about it. They conceived a child that was prophesied
1:42.5	to destroy Arthur's kingdom. Merlin, with his magic, saw that, but he didn't know who exactly
1:49.2	the baby was. In an unforgivable move, Arthur arranged to have all the babies of that particular
1:54.7	age bracket offered a life at Camelot, but the ship there never made it. It was purposefully abandoned,
2:01.7	and it wrecked. Only one of the infants survived, mortared, the child of Arthur and Lot's wife.
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