Hello everyone.

How old is Gawain when Arthur pulls the sword from the stone?

When were the various Orkney sons born?

Thanks!

How old is Gawain when Arthur pulls the sword from the stone?

When were the various Orkney sons born?


GPC states:

Gawaine: Born 493.
Mordred: Born 510. (However! Morgawse visits Arthur in 511 and the May Babies is 512, so I do believe this is off by a year!)

By a cursory glance, I didn't notice the ages of the other Orkneys. However, I can't shake the feeling that I read somewhere that Agravaine would have been born couple of years after Gawaine (making his birth 495), Gaheris a couple of years after that (497?), and Gareth around 500.

Gaheris becomes a RTK in 521, but that is only a guideline to his age, as Gawaine himself made the cut in 517 (at the age of 24). I couldn't find any mention of Gareth's RTK career, nor Agravaine's, although Agravaine's most probable year is 518 for Badon.

From Mallory, Gareth appears after the Roman War, and interacts with Lancelot. So it should be in late 520s, but that makes him darn old for a 'young man' if he has born already in 500. Pushing his birth back to 507 or so would solve this nicely, and explain why the other three older brothers appear in 511, but no mention of Gareth is made.

A Pendragon adventure, The Grey Knight, is set in 515 and refers to Agravaine and Gaheris as knights. Gaheris is also said to be only a few years younger than his two older brothers. 497-ish would therefore make sense, although make Gaheris a rather young knight at 18. But not impossibly so. Agravaine would be young at 20, if he was born in 495.

Morien,

Thank you greatly for this. It will help me flesh out who is where and when (grin).

-MrUkpyr