[FFML] Continue dead or abandon fics by other authors
Arthur Hansen
arthurh3535 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 19:50:49 PDT 2015
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Arthur Hansen <arthurh3535 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm wondering about ones that go back at least a couple thousand years.
>>
>> Are you talking about Lancelot in the Arthurian Chronicles?
>>
>
> The Arthurian Chronicles themselves aren't quite that old (King Arthur was
> in the 5th or 6th century AD, apparently, and his stories didn't appear
> until after 1000, maybe after 1100). I thought Lancelot was original to
> those tales? (Though, yes, adding Lancelot to the Arthurian Chronicles was
> otherwise an example.)
>
> Then again, this would be the right sort of story, and perhaps the
> difference in maximum chain length between one and two thousand years is
> not so high.
Nope, Lancelot is a French addition, added later.
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