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This quiz was: What character from Arthurian Legend are you?

First I ask myself: who would I want to be?

There are so many versions, in fiction and in film. In the John M. Ford version (my favourite), I'd want to be Galahad or Melin. In most versions, Arthur or Merlin. But I'm rather pleased with this one.

Your result for The Camelot Test...

Lady of the Lake

Mistress of the Enchanted Isle (Avalon), you are beautiful, poised and very powerful. You strike fear and love in the heart of your peers.

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Interesting to see that my second-highest scores were Arthur and LAcenlot, characters I've always liked, and found instrinsically slashy: the love triangle that went way beyond the obvious. My lowest score was Guinevere, whom I've always felt got a raw deal, though I've seldom seen a modern fictional account of her that I've liked. (Recommendations welcome.) And so absurdly low on Mordred, whose story needs to be told.

But the Lady combines magic and power: what could be better? But I don't have much sense of The Lady as a personality; when I think of powerful magicians I tend to think of Merlin, Prospero, Michael the Scot, John Dee, Harry Potter... Oops, wrong fandom.

Maybe I should look her up. After all, she had a sword. I like swordswomen.

My favourite versions of the Arthurian legend:

Winter Solstice: Camelot Station by John M. Ford (poetry)
Camelot 3000 by Mike Barr and John Bolton (comic book)
Camleot (the musical, and it has good songs, too. My favourite song from it is "Fie on Goodness", though I also like "Follow Me" and most of the repertoire.)
First Knight, one of those unpopular movies with I loved. Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond. And swords and medieval costumes. I swoon.
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

I haven't yet seen the current TV series Merlin, though I hope to soon. And though the 2004 movie King Arthur had a terrible premise, script, style and concept, it also had Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Mads Mikkelsen, Ray Winstone, and Kiera Knightly, making it one of those nice eye-candy movies best watched with the sound off.