Reading Notes: Faerie Queene, Part B
For this week, I chose to read stories about the Fairy Queen, as found in Stories from the Faerie Queene by Mary Macleod. My favorite story in Part B is Two Knights, as I personally find it a bit humorous.
Two Knights:
The knights Artegall and Scudamour come across each other and Artegall prepares to attack Scudamour but stops upon realizing who he is. Artegall refuses to tell Scudamour his name but the two men find out that they are both looking for revenge against Britomart, thinking she is a man. Scudamour thinks Britomart stole his lover while Artegall is upset that he lost to Britomart shamefully. Both manage to hunt Britomart down and attack her, knocking off the visor of her helmet, revealing that she is a girl. Artegall falls in love with her and Scudamour laughs at the thing, teasing Artegall for losing to a girl while rejoicing that he need not be jealous of Britomart, that he can still have Amoret, the girl he loves whom he believed Britomart had stolen from him. Glauce, who I believe is Britomart's servant/maid/assistant then breaks up the fight and calms everyone down.
If I retell this story, I will have it be like the Robin Hood scene in the Prince of Thieves, where Robin Hood comes across Maid Marian in disguise and they both fight each other, only for her identity to be revealed when he holds her hand over a flame, causing her to scream out in a suspiciously high-pitched voice. In my story, Marian will come across Robin Hood and some other guy, both looking for a man they think took Marian and the other man's girl, and they will fight the disguised Marian until her identity is revealed, at which point Robin Hood falls in love with her and her with him and the other guy goes off to find his girl. I am basically going to be mixing two folktales, which is a first for me.
Two Knights:
The knights Artegall and Scudamour come across each other and Artegall prepares to attack Scudamour but stops upon realizing who he is. Artegall refuses to tell Scudamour his name but the two men find out that they are both looking for revenge against Britomart, thinking she is a man. Scudamour thinks Britomart stole his lover while Artegall is upset that he lost to Britomart shamefully. Both manage to hunt Britomart down and attack her, knocking off the visor of her helmet, revealing that she is a girl. Artegall falls in love with her and Scudamour laughs at the thing, teasing Artegall for losing to a girl while rejoicing that he need not be jealous of Britomart, that he can still have Amoret, the girl he loves whom he believed Britomart had stolen from him. Glauce, who I believe is Britomart's servant/maid/assistant then breaks up the fight and calms everyone down.
If I retell this story, I will have it be like the Robin Hood scene in the Prince of Thieves, where Robin Hood comes across Maid Marian in disguise and they both fight each other, only for her identity to be revealed when he holds her hand over a flame, causing her to scream out in a suspiciously high-pitched voice. In my story, Marian will come across Robin Hood and some other guy, both looking for a man they think took Marian and the other man's girl, and they will fight the disguised Marian until her identity is revealed, at which point Robin Hood falls in love with her and her with him and the other guy goes off to find his girl. I am basically going to be mixing two folktales, which is a first for me.
Title page of Edmund Spenser's book The Faerie Queene (1596). Source: Wiki Commons
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