A little request for people who know

[Yanko Markovic]

For people who know about literature. I'm making a story but I have to re-tell the Legend of King Arthur, but due to the lack of information and the many versions of this story, I'm getting confused. Does anyone know about the order of events taking place in arthurian legend? Can anyone please make some sort of "timeline" listing the order of events? Stuff like, when did the Grail Quest start and what for? When did Arthur give birth to Mordred? When and how did Guinevere and Lancelot's affair come to light?

To be more exact, I'm set in the middle of the Grail Quest. Is Mordred there at all? Is Merlin there at all? What is the state of the Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot love triangle? Those three things specifically.  to anyone who helps me.

[jdizzy001]

If you're retelling the story, can't you determine what state all of these things are at, or do you have to pick up as if you wrote everything up to that point and must now finish?

[Yanko Markovic]

No, I shouldn't have said "retelling". I'm actually setting the main story at the time the Grail Quest is in progress, and then I have to develop the rest of the story from there, as an addition to the main story. The thing is that I don't know the order or "synchronization" of events here. Where was Lancelot at the time of the Quest? Where was Guinevere, Mordred and Arthur? Is Galahad there? Stuff like that.

[Yanko Markovic]

"talk talk talk, it's only talk

back talk"

Help please?

[jdizzy001]

here is something that might help

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=450#LESSON5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceval,_le_Conte_du_Graal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthurian_romance#Arthurian_romance

This was the most helpful info i found.  Good luck

[Gate Troll]

A lot of the legends differed. Are you writing a novel, or attempting to summarize the Arthur legend?

[Yanko Markovic]

Writing a semi-fantasy, semi-historical novel (yeah, that SOUNDS weird), involving Arthurian Legend as a secondary plot.

Actually the links worked a lot for me, and then I looked for a Le Morte D'arthur article with a plot summary that helped with my problem.

[jdizzy001]

WHERE IS MY COOKIE!?  I'm only kidding, I had a lot of fun looking for that information and felt inspired while doing so.  By inspired I mean role-playing ideas came flooding to my mind.  From the arthurian legends come great campaigns for the table gamer.

[Yanko Markovic]

Yeah, that's true, it's a wonderful story. Oh, and I had already given you gold

[jdizzy001]

boy do i feel sheepish