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The Knights of the Round Table Are Ridiculous

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Stories of "King Arthur" span about 1,200 years and have been told by a variety of different people in different batches, and those "batches" were popular with different audiences at different times, leading to a lot of variability in the different versions. I finally got around to reading some Arthurian Legends and they were not at all what I was expecting. The common image of the Knights of the Round Table is usually that of powerful and virtuous knights who earned their place through great deeds, but the reality is that they are more like an eccentric group of morally questionable weirdos with super powers. The number of knights varies from 12 to 150+. These are just the ones that I came across in my reading. The Strange Ones Sir Gawain (Gwalchmei, Knight of Maidens) is an elite and integral member of the Round Table known for having many children with different women and the "beheading game" he played with a fae type entity known as the