Guinevere: Not Such a Ninny After All

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Camelot Chat! I’m your hostess, Shannon Watson; and today, we will be continuing our discussion from last week about Queen Guinevere... except, this week, we will be talking about Guinevere’s secular totems and what they tell us about her function as queen.

Last week, we mentioned the Cult of the Severed Head, and how Guinevere rode about with the embalmed severed heads of her enemies swaying from the pommel of her saddle. So: either the queen or someone in her entourage was a headhunter: one of the ancient caste of warriors who took the heads of their enemies in battle and preserved them, thereby keeping their power…