dhampyresa

NO BUT FOR REAL THOUGH

I haven't seen anything about it that isn't in French, so let me quote from Radio France:

Les aventures de Ségurant, le chevalier au dragon, ont sans doute été écrites entre 1240 et 1279 en Italie du Nord. Ce roman en prose s’inscrit dans le vaste cycle des péripéties des chevaliers de la Table ronde. Longtemps oublié, le roman refait aujourd’hui surface à la faveur du travail d’Emanuele Arioli, qui a d’abord retrouvé la trace dans un autre ouvrage, Les Prophéties de Merlin. Rapidement, le médiéviste comprend que Ségurant n’est pas qu’un personnage secondaire du cycle arthurien, mais bien un héros à part entière : "En dix ans, j'ai réuni vingt-huit manuscrits qui m'ont permis de reconstituer l'histoire complète de Ségurant."

Translation by yours truly:
The adventures of Ségurant, Knight of the Dragon, were most likely written in Northern Italy between 1240 and 1279. This prose novel is part of the vast corpus of adventures of knights of the Round Table. Long forgotten, the novel now resurfaces thanks to the work of Emanuele Arioli, who first saw a trace of it in another story, The Prophecies of Merlin. The medievist quickly realised that Ségurant wasn't only a secondary character from the Arthurian cycle, but a hero in his own right: "In ten years, I gathered 28 manuscripts that allowed me to reconstitute the full story of Ségurant."

Anyway, there's a translation into modern French, a comic adaptation and a children's book getting published. A documentary is coming to Arte next month.

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Anyway, there's a translation into modern French, a comic adaptation and a children's book getting published. A documentary is coming to Arte next month.

That's amazing.

dhampyresa

RIGHT?!

I can attest to the comic being out already, as that's how I found out about this, by seeing it at the comic shop and being intrigued by the "as seen on arte" sticker.