The Late, Late Show

[jamesenge]

I was watching TV, and for some reason there was a rather elderly Kim Basinger talking about awkward marriage proposals she’d received in her life. “But the worst,” she said, “was from Maxen Wledig.”

This interested me, as Maxen Wledig is the only Roman Emperor to appear in the Mabinogion, and I had no idea that Kim Basinger had dated him, or, indeed, any of the Roman emperors. I was sure I must have misheard, but when I tried to adjust the volume I woke up.

The header image for “The Dream of Maxen Wledig”
in Brooke’s Wonder Stories from the Mabinogion (1908)
artist unknown

[I posted this originally at Facebook, but have been porting my posts from there over here, since the Facebots seem increasingly dedicated to evil. I added the image on 7/14/2025.]

Mirrored from Ambrose & Elsewhere.