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The Knight with the Sword
The Knight of the Sword or Le Chevalier à l'Épée , is a rather short Old French romance about Sir Gawain. It was written perhaps in the mid-13th ce...
By Jimmy Joe
Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnell
The Wedding of Gawain and Dame Ragnell or Sir Gawain and the Lady Ragnell was a late 15th century Middle English tale of how Gawain won the love of...
By Jimmy Joe
Rise of Sir Gawain
The Rise of Sir Gawain was an anonymous Latin romance written in the mid-13th century. The full Latin title is De ortu Waluuanii, nepotis Arturi – ...
By Jimmy Joe
Three Damsels of the Fountain
This is a continuation of the Legend of Excalibur , after Morgan le Fay's failed attempt to murder her half-brother, King Arthur. In the texts, it ...
By Jimmy Joe
Sir Gawain
Gawain was one of the great heroes in the Arthurian legends. No other knights appeared in more tales, yet he is not often the chief hero in most of...
By Jimmy Joe
About Norse Mythology
Who were the Norse and Germanic people? Was there any historical connection to Norse myths? Sources for Norse myths Who were the Norse and Germanic...
By Jimmy Joe
Zibelthiurdos
The Thracian god of storms. Like the Greek god Zeus , he was the wielder of lightning and thunderbolts. Not much is known about Zibelthiurdos.
By Jimmy Joe
Zalmoxis
Zalmoxis was a ruler and god of the underworld. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Zalmoxis was also called Gebeleizis, and the Thracian t...
By Jimmy Joe
Heros
A chthonic god of the underworld. Heros was frequently depicted on funerary stelae as a horseman.
By Jimmy Joe
Kotys
A Thracian goddess. The cult of Kotys was worshipped by the Edonians, a tribe that lived around Mount Pangaeus. The geographer Strabo described the...
By Jimmy Joe
Bendis
A Thracian mother goddess. Bendis was often identified with the huntress goddess Artemis and the moon goddess Hecate . She was also the goddess of ...
By Jimmy Joe
Thracian Deities
The Thracians were a people who lived north and east of Thessaly and Macedon. The land of Thrace reached the Black Sea in the north-east, and north...