Wanna play the beheading game?

Gawain and the Green Knight sure passed the time in interesting ways....

Hosted by Dr. Moiya McTier & Dr. Emily Zarka, FATE & FABLED explores the stories and characters of mythologies from all around the world - why they came to be and how they impact us still today.

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[NewMessage]

Don't lose your head over this, folks... but there's a new Storied short.

[theothersparrow]

I guess the game was a dilemma Gawain just couldn't wrap his head around.

[pumirya]

You could say this video rose to The… head… of the class on my watch list. 🙂👍

[genghisgalahad]

I never noticed the singular intensity of the now blood curdling monstrous scream of the infamous CSI Miami meme 🕶 😎 moment until now 😂 🦩

[misterandylink]

That's not even how the legend goes. You get to hit the knight for free and then he hits you the exact same way a year later. Gawain chops his head off and the green knight puts his head back on and Gawain has to fulfill his promise of allowing the Green Knight to do the same blow to him.

[TheInfintyithGoofball]

the old english of Sir Gawain and the green knight was incredibly frustrating to read for school,
and to add salt to the wound...
u know how they say a picture is worth a thousand words?
well in this story when needing to showcase the green knight's appearance and the setting of the dinner table they opted for the thousand words AND IT IS AGONIZING!

[BeatrixTomomizu]

I was just remembered why I love monstrum and fate&fabled. Of course for the stories. But you both just throwing really painful puns is something I just love~

[GregoryTheGrster]

Does anyone remember the Ultima computer games from the 80s? One of the monsters that the player might encounter was the "headless". They indeed had no head, and oh boy were they aggressive.

[lenninmontiel]

Anne boleyn prov: oh yeah I've lost to that game, Nice neck by the way.

[jarektempleton]

So the “ambiguous” ending to the movie (based on the legend) is meant to make you think; however, that doesn’t change the fact that he was absolutely beheaded in the end.

[avarisclari]

Glad to see you didn't lose your heads over this one.

[PHKUCREW]

Heads up, this is way a head of its time. This had me laughing my head off 🤣💀

[stevehollahan]

It is a metaphor for barleycorn/wheat!

[mascadadelpantion]

Really like most of the arthurian legends

[evelynlamoy]

The beheading game didn't start with Arthurian myth. The earliest surviving version is traced to the irish hero Cú Chulainn.

There has been some speculation that the story and characters go back farther, since some interpretations of the Parisi pillar of the boatmen, shows friezes that may be interpreted as related. And earlier, in an area where celts and ligurnians lived, dating to about 600 BC there were a series of seated statues that may have been related at Roquepertuse. Technically only one statue dates back to the 600 mark, the other two being added later. However these headless statues may have originally had heads and been defaced in an act of iconoclasm, but I haven't looked into it enough to be sure one way or the other.

Interestingly these extended interpretations sometimes link continental celtic figures with little surviving story like Cernonos, with irish figures who are much better documented, like Conall Cernach. This is because there are primitive irish (the precursor to old irish) inscriptions in Ogham that preserve elements of older suffixes closer to the proto-celtic origin, that were better preserved by the gauls. The extended form being Cunavalas(or Cunwalas) Cearnach. Cearnach has traditionally been translated as something relating to angles, but it seems more likely as meaning "triumphant", with this being a shift in lexicon, as the Cernonos's name comes from the horn, both his antlers and the instrument the Carnyx, a type of trumpet played on the battlefield. Having a seperate word for horns, both the antler and the instrument, the Irish translation was left a little lacking for parallels in speech, hense the mistranslation centuries later. Cunavalas has been translated as "prince of hounds" but I think it's a little closer to houndmaster.

[сесилияалександрова]

Looks like somebody in the game had... a head start.

[UnConstant]

I guess its in.. the header of the newspaper.




Yes i searched for a pun but couldn’t find a good one

[raymondwilliams]

I'd be fine - I've always been a loser anyway ! 😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[catatonicbug]

Great... Now you've started a new TikTok challenge...

[Homer-OJ-Simpson]

Everyone and their head puns. lol. I don’t mind it though