To Everything, Turn Turn Turn

Roman iron pugio with bronze scabbard and hilt, uncovered in the Netherlands, 1st century AD

This ending of Sir Degrevant is so just so... 🥹 Ugh, my heart! Because... here you have Sir Agravaine (aka Degrevant in the text) having his happy ending. He gets to live 30 plus years of marriage with his wife and seven children, and then Melidor dies of old age.

And then, Agravaine hands over his state to his eldest son and travels to the Holy Land to fight, where he proceeds to die in a blaze of glory. For all we know, he probably couldn't live without his wife and wanted to meet with her in the afterlife. 😭

References

Egyptian cosmetic spoon in the shape of a swimming woman holding an antelope-shaped container in front of her

New Kingdom, 18th century, ca. 1390–1352 BCE

i ended up coloring it lol

I am a stranger in this life, haunted by yesterday's desires (Mordred)

before and afters below the cut (16+hrs)