Malgus the Fierce

There are many things amusing about the Chronicler subject and this is one happens to be about Malgus the Fierce (from La3amon's Brut, translated by Rosamund Allen, ll. 14378-14398):

And then Malgus the fierce took over this realm [Britain];
He was the most handsome man, apart from Adam and Absolom
Who has ever been born (or so the books tell us!)
This man had his court filled entirely with brave knights
[...]
One could not devise any more fine delights
Than there were with the king - save for one bad thing:
He loved the same sin which is hateful to Our Lord
By which men avoided women and to a greater sin adhered:
The male loved the male; the female they found hateful,
So that many thousand emigrated from this land:
Really beautiful women went off to other nations,
Thinking it a huge insult that men cared nothing for them.
In ever kind of respect this was a good monarch,
Except for that sin which I have just mentioned.

This isn't so much a rant as sharing the mental image of these women emigrating in droves out of disgust after their gay king and his gay court failed to take notice of them. And perhaps a hint of La3amon lamenting that there aren't any more beautiful women since they've all emigrated. Also, for a medieval text, it's surprisingly explicit and direct about this "hateful" sin... it amsued me.

Pillywiggin was mildly surprised that no one has tried to "reclaim" him yet. But no one seems to be that interested in looking into the lives of semi-historical mostly-made-up kings who appear in medieval chronicles.