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A lot of fairy tales in the West take place in a "medieval mythical time" as I call it: Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Beauty and the Beast, Cind
by rdtsc 1y ago
A lot of fairy tales in the West take place in a "medieval mythical time" as I call it: Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella etc. Not sure how many children are still reading or hearing those these days but I think that generates some of the interest. The women can still pretend to be Cinderella and men get to pretend to be knights or Robin Hood and such.
- bee_rider 1y agoYeah. I think this setting goes from like… the fall of western Rome to the Early Modern period, haha. (I mean, King Arthur stories have been reimagined with Arthur as a Roman or somebody filling the vacuum of them leaving Britain, so it must bump up against that side).
- LunaSea 1y agoKing Arthur is most likely a story talking about the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders by the "native" Britons but told by Anglo Saxons 400-500 years later that were themselves living the invasion of Britain by the Normans this time.