Gwaine and the Black Knight
A story from the Round Table.
This is an epic tale and requires patience.
The stories of the knights of the round table represent some of the great tales of good and evil, of love, mystery and magic. Here is a lesser known episode from that ancient mythology. Though much is told of the story of the Green knight and his strange challenge to the court, few have heard this tale.
The story tellers exalt in the tales of Gwaine. His bravery, his prowess in battle and the chivalrous deeds of honour to defend his king, his lands and the virtue of his ladies.
His reputation is enviable but as so often that reputation depends on a selective view of history, told to flatter the victors, the rulers, the rich and the powerful and woe betide anyone who spoke against that reputation within the earshot of these men or their allies.
In medieval times, lords got what they held by force and held only what they could by force. A wit, charm and a clever choice of friends was useful but ruthlessness and brute force was what lay behind a rich gentleman's success story.
So it was with Gwaine,. He was possessed of courage, wit and charm in abundance, it is often remembered how he made great use of these. He was also bound, like the other knights of the round table, to the code of honour they swore when each became a knight.
When the Green Knight mysteriously appeared and challenged the knights to cut off his head in return for their reciprocity at the court of the Green Knight a year to the day thereafter, it was Gwaine who stepped forward to decapitate the Green Knight. When the Green Knight stood, picked up his severed head and left the court, apparently uninjured, Gwaine knew that he would be compelled by his code to accept the reciprocal blow from their mysterious visitor on that day a year later.
He got lucky on that occasion and though it seemed unlikely, the story ends well for him, not least in his image as a faithful keeper of a promise.
The version of the story less often told relates to an aspect of Gwaine's behaviour wiped from our collective memory by the moralising of 19th Century enthusiasts for mythical stories. Wishing to clean them up for a a big publishing deal, making these adventures suitable for the impressionable young and emphasising truth, honour, heterosexuality and of course fidelity. You will now see how it was that this particular fable got left out.
Here too, the court was gathered for feasting at the spring time celebrations of fertility and rebirth. As was customary in medieval times, these feast were wild affairs with much drinking and debauched behaviour but not in sanitised, Victorian versions of the story..
Gwaine was well known throughout the land for his strength in battle his magnificent physical presence, his greatly enhanced musculature and the screams of pain from those subjected to punishment by the penetration of his colossal penis.
Visitors to the court were fascinated by this much whispered reputation. Women dared not show their lust for such a beast as this. If they did they would be banished from his sight for their impure behaviour or condemned as witches. The 'secret' everyone in the court and abroad knew was a mere twinkle in the eye of those who met the great knight, his immediate servants and the man who had to accommodate him in clothing and armour.
The court was constantly under attack from jealous lords who sought to bring the magnificence of the city to shame and ruin. Before they were hanged or burned, these enemies and traitors were brought before Gwaine who would have them stripped and strapped into a special swinging bed of leather and chains with their arsehole exposed. No need for a red hot poker to extract a confession when Gwaine was on hand.
His servant would help the great knight out of his customary chain mail and other garments and with his magnificent muscular torso, bristling with a dark and course, curly pelt and lit by the flickering torches around the darkened chamber, the great knight would be made ready for his very special work. His page would release the chain running through the thick silver ring piercing his glans and restraining Gwain's monstrous penis to the leather strap on his gargantuan right thigh. The page would then present a small bowl of a specially prepared tallow enriched with exotic eucalyptus and camphor with which the knight would slick the bulbous head of his cock and which would send a maddening heat through this giant of a man and bring his phenomenal weapon to it's extraordinary fullness standing full a foot from Gwaine's groin, curving upwards like the fantasy phalli on erotic ancient greek pottery. So thick in it's shaft even the biggest hand could not reach more than half way round it and the raging purple pink head, fuller than a man's fist. This medieval "Satyr" was six feet four inches tall, a very human 245 pounds of muscle, bone, body hair and sweat, aching to sink that ram into any warm flesh that would accommodate it, by whatever means.
Though consent had always been the ideal of the knights of the court according to their shared code of honour, anything was permitted in the interest of extracting information from those who sought to bring down the king. Gwaine had grown immune to the screams, to the pleading to the inevitable blood, believing he was doing right, helping to protect the kingdom. He took no psychological pleasure in inflicting the terrible pain his prisoners suffered but the feeling of his cock in their warm bodies made him overflow in great gouts of semen and his body convulse and salivate uncontrollably.