#vulgate

OK, so in my series of posts and lectures about my work on Neil Gaiman's Chivalry, I pointed out that Sir Galahad's first appearance in Arthurian fiction was in the Vulgate, and that his name was originally spelled Galaad. Therefore the spelling in Neil Gaiman's Chivalry is correct, and Galahad is a later variant spelling.

Someone recently took me to task for saying this meant that I claimed Sir Galahad was in the Bible, and yet Sir Galahad appears nowhere in the Bible.

I never said Sir Galahad was in the Bible.

I said he was in the Vulgate.

Vulgate means "common version" in Latin.

The confusion here stems from the word "vulgate" which often refers to the 4th century Latin translation of the Bible commonly known as the Vulgate Bible.

But "vulgate" is also a term used to refer to The Lancelot-Grail Cycle, a 13th century French Arthurian cycle which is also known as the Vulgate or Vulgate Cycle -i.e. common version. Later translations of this work are known as Post-Vulgate.

Specifically, Galahad or Galaad appears in the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal.

Happy to help.

Chivalry is available wherever fine books are sold, and you can come see me at the San Diego Comic Con Museum on October 4 where I will be signing and lecturing and showing art. Thanks.

March to Camelot #2: Heir

Galihodin - godson, nephew and heir to High Prince Galehaut

Galihodin inheriting all roughly 30 kingdoms Galehaut conquered when he's only like 16 years old... he becomes one of the most powerful people in Britain (and beyond) from one day to the next, but he can't even be remotely happy about that because his uncle and godfather who basically raised him is dead...

vulgate: lancelot part VI

losing my mind rn chat. how do we feel about this

he would have gladly turned mordred away from such destruction if that were possible

so so so much to talk abt this. first of all this is right after lancelot goes on adventuring with mordred. it's genuinely one of my favorite arcs in vulgate i think mordred and lancelot is an underrated dynamic, lancelot looks after him imo in a similar way that he does in gareth in later literature. there's also a cute tidbit where he praises him and mordred doesn't respond (which you could interpert however, but i think mordred was just being shy)