In “The Bright Sword,” by Lev Grossman, Camelot has fallen on hard times.
The Matter of Britain has haunted multitudes since the first oral storytellers spoke of a 6th-century warrior doomed to die in battle against Saxon invaders. By the time Sir Thomas Malory wove the Arthurian legends into one vast narrative tapestry during the 15th century, a great web of themes and figures had developed: warring kingdoms, transgressive sex, courtly pomp and tragic love triangles. Sorcerers, lovers, traitors, heroes saintly or adulterous, iconic women of power.
Soon enough, he reaches Camelot. But it’s not the castle of his dreams, abuzz with knights paying court to the legendary king. Instead, he finds some disheveled men, drunk and dozing around the vast Round Table. “You’re in luck,” one of them tells him. “At the present time we find ourselves with several vacancies.”
The dispirited knights have no answer, but Collum does. Pray for a miracle, like Arthur did with the Holy Grail, and let God show them the way. No sooner asked than done: A miracle appears, in the form of the Green Knight, and the ramshackle band of second-string knights sets off to find a Holy Lance.
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