Grisly Blakke Rocks......

'GRISLY  ROCKS BLAKE ', IS,A LINE, FROM,THE, 'FULLER'S, TALE', IN, THE,LARGER, BOOK,THE,'CANTERBURY TALES',BY,GEOFFREY CHAUCER

[I,REMEMBERED, IT, THANKS, TO,'LACROSSE GIRL', LINDA D...AN, OLD, AND, HAPPY, MEMORY..FOR, ME]

IT, CONCERNS, LOVE AND MARRIAGE...BUT, CHAUCER, IN, 'OLDE' ENGLISH, IS, DIFFICULT, TO READ,LET,ALONE UNDERSTAND....
JUST, LIKE, MARRIAGE, ITSELF?..
CHAUCER,IN, MODERN ENGLISH, IS, HILARIOUS...BUT,SOMETIMES,THE 'MILLER'S TALE'..IS,MIS-INTERPRETED..


from; http://www.hortulus.net/~hortulus/index.php/%22%27The_king_o_fairy_with_his_rout%27:_Fairy_Magic_in_the_Literature_of_Late_Medieval_Britain%22_by_Hannah_Priest

Are Fairies Human?

As the references to Marie’s lais suggest, the distinction between the human and the fairy is difficult to categorize. Knights and ladies need not be fairies to travel long distances for love; “bel e genz” could easily refer to a human knight. Fairies are often represented as magical beings, but the figure of the witch or the sorcerer demonstrates that human beings are just as capable as fairies of using magical means to achieve their ends. Fairies are ‘supernatural’ beings; yet, as Marie de France demonstrates in Yonec, they are just as vulnerable to the pleasure of sex or the threat of death as humans. In medieval literature, fairies and humans mate and produce children, suggesting that the species distinction between the two is not insurmountable. Indeed, within the world of these texts, trying to draw a categorical definition of the ‘fairy’ is doomed to failure.

Romance fairy lovers demonstrate a capacity for varied emotion comparable to that of human characters. Not only do these creatures demonstrate the ability to feel deep and enduring love, they also feel hurt and betrayal when these feelings are slighted. In Sir Launfal, the hero breaks his vow to Dame Tryamour, his fairy lover, and speaks of her to the other knights at court. She is angered by this, and withdraws the support she has offered him. She has previously warned the knight that, if he tells anyone of their relationship, he will lose her “love” (l. 365). Although the knight realizes that, in betraying his mistress, he has lost the material benefits she has offered, he also recognizes that the biggest punishment is her withdrawal of her affections:

‘All my joye I have forelore,

And the – that me ys worst fore –

Thou blysfull berde yn bour!’ (ll. 748-50)

The broken-hearted fairy lover shows an emotional existence that seems quite human. One can compare Tryamour’s behaviour with that of Alundyne in Ywain and Gawain. In this romance, there is no suggestion that the woman is anything other than human – though she is in possession of a magic fountain and a magic ring. However, when Ywain breaks his promise to return to her, she withdraws her material and emotional favours. Her maid explains:

‘My lady wend he had hir hert

Ay for-to kepe and hald in quert,

Bot now with grefe he has hir gret

And broken the term that sho him set[.]’

She then takes back her lady’s ring and denounces Ywain as a traitor. The angry grievance of the woman who has been lied to bears a strong resemblance to the emotions displayed by Tryamour in Sir Launfal. The main difference, of course, is that, while Tryamour may be able to give back her gifts to Launfal through magical means, Alundyne must send a messenger to do this physically. Jeremy Harte has argued that the “risks involved” in loving a fairy are “those to be expected from any broken relationships”. Certainly the betrayed fairy Tryamour does little to differentiate herself from her human counterpart save some distant prestidigitation.

SEEMS,THAT, THE FEMALE,OF,THE SPECIES,IS, ONE,SELFISH,...ELFISH...!..

THE MALES, IN, THE TALES, ARE,FORGIVEN, FOR,BEING, A, LITTLE,'CONFUSED'..?

 In Neil Gaiman's "Stardust", protagonist Tristan (the name of one of the Knights of the Round Table) goes on a quest over the Wall into the Otherworld to retrieve a fallen star for the shallow girl he's smitten with. (The star is named Yvaine, possibly after one of the knights in Arthur's Round Table, and therefore representing a Grail Quest. - My note) In the magical country the star becomes a woman who turns out to be his true love. (This "fallen" star is noted in the movie to be the "Evening Star," which would make it the planet Venus/Lucifer. - My note) Naturally, as she's a fallen star, [Tristan] finds her in a Crater. At [Star Wars'] outset Luke Skywalker, the son of the fallen messiah Anakin Skywalker, lives in a hole in the ground. Not a Hobbity hole, but an open Crater. I think this is a pretty neat item of synchronicity if a Crater is a Grail and the Grail is the Holy Blood.
[from; http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/2009/06/bee-seeing-you-through-veil.html] ]