toddYoungOnline presents Young Tales: Queen Guinevere is seized by Sir Maleagans, and Sir Lancelot sets out to rescue her, even riding in a felon's cart to reach her through ambushes and enchantments. After a fierce duel Lancelot defeats Maleagans but spares him at Guinevere's command; wounded and briefly rejected, he returns to free the captive knights and bring the queen safely home to Camelot.

Another run with Generro in Westwoods.. Better, but still didn't make the 30 mins

toddYoungONLINE presents Young Tales, Tales for the Young and the Young at Heart. Today’s episode tells the story of Sir Percival from Bullfinch’s Mythology: King Arthur and His Knights. Born and raised in a Welsh wood, Percival leaves his mother to seek knighthood, learns the ways of Arthur’s court, wins his first battle, and visits the Fisher King—where he glimpses the Holy Grail. Innocence, courage, and destiny begin his quest to heal the wounded king.

toddYoungONLINE presents Young Tales: Tales for the Young and the Young at Heart. Today's story... Bullfinch's Mythology＞The Mabinogion: The Lost Tales of Wales. Before the legends of Camelot were sung in stone halls, before knights bore crosses upon their shields, there were other tales, older, wilder, whispered in the mountains and along the misted rivers of Wales. These were the Mabinogion, the tales of the Mab, the sons and daughters of story who lived in an age when the gods still walked among mortals, and when dreams and truth were not yet separate. For many centuries these stories slept, their words locked in ancient manuscripts, kept safe in great libraries where few cared to read them. There they lay in silence, while kingdoms rose and fall until scholars and poets, those who loved old songs, began to search again for the lost voices of their land. In the dusty corners of Oxford's Bodleian Library, they found the manuscripts, long rolls of vellum written in Welsh, their edges worn by the centuries. The scholars knew that the tales were precious, yet few could read them. For though the tongue of Wales still lived among its people, it was little studied by the learned, and those who could translate it had neither the means nor the will. So the stories waited, unseen, unheard, until new voices arose to awaken them. It was the poets who first remembered them, men like Southie and Sir Walter Scott, who loved the old romantic legends of Britain. There is no greater treasure lost to Britain lore than these ancient tales of yours, said Southie. The Mabinogion, if ever they might be translated, the whole of England would know what songs sleep in your mountains. But the years passed, and none came forward. Southie jested that no Welshman should wear the leek nor boast of his bards until the work was done, and still the manuscripts waited. At last, long after Southie and Scott were gone, a lady appeared who would answer their call, not a bard by birth, but by love. Her name was Lady Charlotte Guest, an Englishwoman who had married a Welsh nobleman and had fallen in love with his language, his country, and its stories. She learned the old Welsh tongue, word by word, until she could read the manuscripts herself. And then, with patience and passion, she began to translate each tale from parchment into living English. She gathered the myths of princes and enchantresses, of cauldrons that gave life, and stones that spoke, of Pwyll, the Dreamer King, of Dyfed, of Branwen, the white-bosomed, of Math and Gwydion, and the Lady of Flowers, born from blossoms and spells. In four great volumes, she gave the world back the lost stories of Wales, the Mabinogion, written fair, with their ancient strangeness intact. To the Antiquitarian, they were treasures of language and myth. To the poet, they were the roots of Arthur's dream. For from these Welsh tales came the first seeds of the legends we now know. The boy who drew the sword, the Lady of the Lake, the shining court of Britain's once and future king. Some said that Merlin himself was born in their words, that the gods of the Mabinogion had merely changed their names. That Arawn, Lord of Annwn, became the first whisper of the grail. And thus the circle of stories turned, from myth to legend, from legend to history, from history to dream. And so we begin anew. The tales you will hear in this new telling are older than Camelot and deeper than the grail, woven from the mist and the wind of Cymru, the land of song. They are tales of wonder and wisdom, of love and loss, and of that ancient magic which still lingers in the hills and rivers, waiting to be spoken once more. Thus begins the telling of the Mabinogion, the stories of the first dreamers of Britain. 

toddYoungONLINE presents Young Tales: Tales for the Young and the Young at Heart. Today's story... Bullfinch's Mythology>The Mabinogion: The Lost Tales of Wales. Before the legends of Camelot were sung in stone halls, before knights bore crosses upon their shields, there were other tales, older, wilder, whispered in the mountains and along the misted rivers of Wales. These were the Mabinogion, the tales of the Mab, the sons and daughters of story who lived in an age when the gods still walked among mortals, and when dreams and truth were not yet separate. For many centuries these stories slept, their words locked in ancient manuscripts, kept safe in great libraries where few cared to read them. There they lay in silence, while kingdoms rose and fall until scholars and poets, those who loved old songs, began to search again for the lost voices of their land. In the dusty corners of Oxford's Bodleian Library, they found the manuscripts, long rolls of vellum written in Welsh, their edges worn by the centuries. The scholars knew that the tales were precious, yet few could read them. For though the tongue of Wales still lived among its people, it was little studied by the learned, and those who could translate it had neither the means nor the will. So the stories waited, unseen, unheard, until new voices arose to awaken them. It was the poets who first remembered them, men like Southie and Sir Walter Scott, who loved the old romantic legends of Britain. There is no greater treasure lost to Britain lore than these ancient tales of yours, said Southie. The Mabinogion, if ever they might be translated, the whole of England would know what songs sleep in your mountains. But the years passed, and none came forward. Southie jested that no Welshman should wear the leek nor boast of his bards until the work was done, and still the manuscripts waited. At last, long after Southie and Scott were gone, a lady appeared who would answer their call, not a bard by birth, but by love. Her name was Lady Charlotte Guest, an Englishwoman who had married a Welsh nobleman and had fallen in love with his language, his country, and its stories. She learned the old Welsh tongue, word by word, until she could read the manuscripts herself. And then, with patience and passion, she began to translate each tale from parchment into living English. She gathered the myths of princes and enchantresses, of cauldrons that gave life, and stones that spoke, of Pwyll, the Dreamer King, of Dyfed, of Branwen, the white-bosomed, of Math and Gwydion, and the Lady of Flowers, born from blossoms and spells. In four great volumes, she gave the world back the lost stories of Wales, the Mabinogion, written fair, with their ancient strangeness intact. To the Antiquitarian, they were treasures of language and myth. To the poet, they were the roots of Arthur's dream. For from these Welsh tales came the first seeds of the legends we now know. The boy who drew the sword, the Lady of the Lake, the shining court of Britain's once and future king. Some said that Merlin himself was born in their words, that the gods of the Mabinogion had merely changed their names. That Arawn, Lord of Annwn, became the first whisper of the grail. And thus the circle of stories turned, from myth to legend, from legend to history, from history to dream. And so we begin anew. The tales you will hear in this new telling are older than Camelot and deeper than the grail, woven from the mist and the wind of Cymru, the land of song. They are tales of wonder and wisdom, of love and loss, and of that ancient magic which still lingers in the hills and rivers, waiting to be spoken once more. Thus begins the telling of the Mabinogion, the stories of the first dreamers of Britain. 

toddYoungONLINE presents Young Tales, Tales for the Young and the Young at Heart. Today’s episode tells the story of Sir Percival from Bullfinch’s Mythology: King Arthur and His Knights. Born and raised in a Welsh wood, Percival leaves his mother to seek knighthood, learns the ways of Arthur’s court, wins his first battle, and visits the Fisher King—where he glimpses the Holy Grail. Innocence, courage, and destiny begin his quest to heal the wounded king.

In this episode toddYoungONLINE presents the origin and early adventures of Lancelot du Lac: born to King Ban and Queen Helen, taken and raised by Vivienne the Lady of the Lake, trained by Merlin, and brought to Camelot where he is knighted and admired by the court and Queen Guinevere. Follow Lancelot as he resists Morgan le Fay’s enchantment, performs feats of courage and mercy—freeing prisoners and defeating great foes—and becomes Camelot’s greatest knight, while a love forms that will shape the realm’s glory and sorrow.

Jumping on for a run...

In this episode toddYoungONLINE presents the origin and early adventures of Lancelot du Lac: born to King Ban and Queen Helen, taken and raised by Vivienne the Lady of the Lake, trained by Merlin, and brought to Camelot where he is knighted and admired by the court and Queen Guinevere. Follow Lancelot as he resists Morgan le Fay’s enchantment, performs feats of courage and mercy—freeing prisoners and defeating great foes—and becomes Camelot’s greatest knight, while a love forms that will shape the realm’s glory and sorrow.

toddYoungONLINE presents "Young Tales": Bullfinch's Mythology: King Arthur and his Knights, telling the tragic story of Sir Tristram. Returning to Brittany, Tristram fights to save King Howell, is mortally wounded, and is tended by his new wife, Isolde of the White Hand. As hope falters, Tristram sends for the Queen of Cornwall. A deceitful report leads him to die believing help has been refused; the Queen arrives and dies beside him. King Mark buries them together, and from their grave a green vine springs up, symbolizing love that outlives death. Young Tales is produced and narrated by Todd Young.

toddYoungONLINE presents Young Tales: Tales for the Young and the Young at Heart. Today's story: Bullfinch's Mythology＞King Arthur and his Knights. Episode 19: The Death of Arthur. Mordred seizes the throne and besieges Queen Guinevere. Arthur returns, Sir Gawain dies, and a dream warns the king to delay battle. A broken truce leads to a bloody clash at Salisbury where Arthur kills Mordred but is mortally wounded. Arthur asks Sir Bedivere to cast Excalibur into the lake; a mysterious arm takes the sword. Ladies in a black barge carry Arthur to Avalon to heal. Guinevere and Lancelot take religious vows and die, and the fellowship of the Round Table comes to its solemn end.

toddYoungONLINE presents "Young Tales": Bullfinch's Mythology: King Arthur and his Knights, telling the tragic story of Sir Tristram. Returning to Brittany, Tristram fights to save King Howell, is mortally wounded, and is tended by his new wife, Isolde of the White Hand. As hope falters, Tristram sends for the Queen of Cornwall. A deceitful report leads him to die believing help has been refused; the Queen arrives and dies beside him. King Mark buries them together, and from their grave a green vine springs up, symbolizing love that outlives death. Young Tales is produced and narrated by Todd Young.