Dee Salmon
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And they were basically like, can you write these stories about courtly love?
We're obsessed.
One of the poets that was like in their court is like one of the most famous courtly love like poets in these centuries.
His name and I'm going to really fuck this up because it's French.
Christian de Troyes.
He is the guy who wrote Sir Lancelot.
And like King Arthur.
So mum, Eleanor, Marie, daughter, yep, yep, yep, obsessed with courtly love.
He happens to be one of the poets, I guess, who like is in their realm, in their orbit.
They say to him, write this stuff.
He writes one of the most famous courtly love poems of all time, of the stories of like King Arthur.
Yeah, that we still think about today.
And so Lancelot, his knight, who is secretly having an affair with King Arthur's queen, Guinevere.
It's a whole thing.
It's like fucking crazy.
I was like gagged at this.