History In Gum Packs-Why Not Knights Of The Round Table Trading Cards?
baseball cards are a huge market. For ages children have collected cards that come in bubble gum packets. topps baseball cards are pulled off the racks and carried to the cashier with nickels and dimes saved for just this purpose. Now children are able to collect trading cards of players from nearly every sport. Many adults enjoy the hobby of collecting as well. Why not develop trading cards in other areas of interest, like Knights of The Round Table?
There could be a collection of knights of the Round Table. It could include a variety of interesting statistics, including the number of crusades, the names of the ladies whose honor has be preserved, the dragons slain and the damsels saved. There are many stories of St. George and the Dragon. Why not put St. George, and the dragon for that matter on a trading card? The knights of King Arthur would be a fantastic collection to pursue. There are at least 35 different knights of the round table alone. Who wouldn’t want a card of Ywain the Bastard? Ywain was a Knight born to the mistress of King Urien of Gore, a name and title that sounds like a bad horror film. Ywain the Bastard was a hearty soul that was killed in a joust during the quest for the Holy Grail. Ywain was inadvertently killed by his cousin, Gawain. He was also a knight of Arthurian legend. Ywain was known as the courteous Knight and the Knight of the maidens.
The tales of the Knights are full of magic, romance and noble, though often misguided deeds. They are also filled with betrayal, adultery, violence and other dark acts of the soul. The lineage of the knights is a convoluted family tree with interweaving roots and branches. A collection of reference cards, might assist a child trying to untangle the Arthurian Roundtable. It could also raises some questions that would make parents uncomfortable. Untangling the connection between King Arthur, Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere and Arthur’s decision to burn her at the stake might perplex both parent and child. For those not versed in Arthurian Legend, Sir Lancelot was King Arthur’s most entrusted knight. Guinevere, the Arthur’s young wife and Lancelot fell in love despite their desire to remain loyal to the knights code. It was this tryst that brought down the Arthurian Kingdom. That’s amazing stuff to accumulate in trading cards.
Guinevere opens up the door to and brings up the subject of the women of the Knights of the Round Table. There are many that are flesh and blood and many that are magical beings, and some that are both. Morgan LeFay was King Arthur’s half-sister and and legend has it that she had possessed the gift of healing. Because King Arthur was near death from a battle wound; Morgan helped carry him to the city of Avalon. There is the Lady of The Lake, likely a conglomeration a different women according to the stories. In one story she is Merlin’s apprentice, betraying him when she got all he could give her.
The people and the stories of the Knights of The Round Table are enough to create a series of collectable cards bringing the stories of the Round Table to youngsters of today.
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