Rina wanted to hug King Arthur.
Here are some of the other medievalists (historical, mythical, fictional, friends & family members) who got a hug this year:
Henry V
King Arthur
Joan of Arc
Guinevere
William Shakespeare
Magdalena
Thor
Lord Gage of Clan Boyd
Lizanne Balmaine
El Cid
Bruce de heart
Lancelot
D'Artagan
Kevin Costner in Robinhood- Pince of Thieves
An ancestor
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Sir Galahad
Leonardo da Vinci
Hector Wulfrith
Lady Jane Grey
Garr Wulftith
Robert the Bruce
Richard the Lionheart
Julian of Norwich
Lady Isobel Wulfrith
Hildegard of Bingen
Johannes Gutenberg to thank him for his printing press.
Tamera Leigh
Danny George (my cousin)
Vitalis, my favorite midieval book character from Tamara Leigh's book Reckless.
Henry The VIII
Anne Neville
Marco Polo
Mary Queen of Scots
Robin Hood
King Richard, who Sean Connery played in Robin Hood
Abu Bakr al-Razi
Any Wulfrith
Lance
Little John - we've just finished Howard Pyle's Robin Hood and I wept like a baby at Robin's death so I'd hug Little John and tell him that Robin has lived on in our imaginations.
My nephew Tyson
Charlemagne
Nikoo McGoldrick
Richard. III
Conna Judy
Margaret, Maid of Norway lived (queen of Scotland 1286-1290)
Hector Wulfrith
Lady Marian/Maid Marian
My dad
Berenga of Navarre
Godfroi D'Argent
William Wallace
Brother Cadfael
Guarin D’Argent
Merlin
A Troubadour. Creative traveling musicians and entertainers. So many books have featured them as men who wildly flirt with the lady of the house.
Luca Forelli
Brian Buru (my ancestor), any of the DeWere brothers, or DeShera brothers, etc. I love all the medieval heroes
My cousin Dani, who is studying medieval martial arts
Jan Hus
The medieval person I would like to hug is a fictional character from one of Tamara Leigh's books who is named Kennedy Plain.
Crispin from Avi's books
Christopher de Lohr
Geoffrey Chaucer
My childhood friend Dr Darleen Pryds who studied medieval history.
Concorde from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The muses
Katharina von Bora Luther (Martin's wife)
Bertha of Kent
Lady Graeye Balmaine
Sir Durand from Tamara Leigh's books
