To be fair, Loholt and the story of how Kay Briefly Joins the Bad Guys seem to be taken from Perlesvaus, which has a truly amazing Wikipedia entry in and of itself: The strangeness of the text and some personal comments led Roger Sherman Loomis to call him "deranged"; similarly the editor of a French Arthurian anthology including extracts from the work notes an obsession with decapitation.
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Date: 2018-09-18 03:31 am (UTC)