You all do know, don't you...

[bunnyjadwiga]

That there really *was* a Sir Ulric von Lichenstein, and he was even more improbable than the guy in The Knight's Tale?

*shakes head*

*imagines a modern day SCA knight dressed as Venus taking on all challengers*
*considers who she knows who would do it*
*runs away cackling*

Comments

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Sir Angus O'Niall would, I bet!

[lucianus.livejournal.com]

That's who sprang to mind for me!

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Seriously!

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

I remember the first time I read the prologue to Service of the Lady and called up Valgard Jarl in Ostgard. He's one of those knights with that courtly love/chivalric stuff coming out of his ears and an ego to match Ulrich's. That prologue sounded much like what I might hear coming from him. *grins*

The man is a bard, and under-utilized as one in the East.

[strawberrykaren.livejournal.com]

He's in the Manesse Codex, by the way: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/0469

[pearl]

The odd thing is, that I see more similarities between the stories of William Marshall and A Knight's Tale, only they probably decided that Ulrich von Lichtenstein sounded more exotic and medieval. :)