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"IN THE MORNING SIR PERSAUNTE ASKED THE LADY WHERE SHE WAS TAKING SIR GARETH. 'TO THE CASTLE DANGEROUS,' SHE REPLIED."

- Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur: A New Rendition 

Keith Baines, New American Library, 1962

In addition to being the name of this blog, Castle Dangerous is:

• The lair of The Red Knight of the Red Lands in Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, Volume II, (see excerpt above); 
• an 1831 novel by Sir Walter Scott; 
• a 1958 BBC television movie starring Jane Asher; 
•  a painting by James Edwin McConnell; 
• a fortress north of Montreal which was attacked by Iroquois Indians in 1692; and 
• a bagpipe tune by J. Haugh.  

Cover art by Stan Campbell, 1957