They really loved blood

"Blood and guts": from Rochefoucauld Grail manuscript

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328819/The-Rochefoucauld-Grail-Sothebys-auction-14th-century-King-Arthur-text.html

After reading about the process of making a manuscript, I couldn’t stop thinking about the sheer amount of effort put into making this version of King Arthur exist in physical form. It makes sense that monks would have created manuscripts of their religious text and doctrine because they had devoted their entire lives to those teachings. Geoffrey of Monmouth, on the other hand, put a lot of time and energy into producing a standardized version of historical folklore. And people liked it enough to make hundreds of copies! That process surely took more hours than Star Wars: Uncut. The fact that this was a story that people were willing to put so much work into tells us a lot about the culture at that time in terms of what they wanted to read about (those that could read and would have access to the manuscript, of course). More than anything, it highlights that they rewarded military accomplishments, other-ed their enemies (“those half-men, mere weaklings compared to you” [84]), and, overall, were fond of outfitting themselves as conquerors.