It's hard to tell sometimes what's meant to be funny and what isn't. Same thing with Medieval text.
I was reading King Arthur stuff, so I started in the 12th century. How many medieval documents have you read? Because I really haven't read very much, therefore what do I know about such a time? Well I was surprised to find out it's exactly like a renaissance fair, but everyone is mentally ill.
All the knight and maiden stuff is real? You just showed up to a town and took maidens from their fathers and they blushed and helped you put on armour to fight other knights with maidens?
You say, "Well it's a medieval romance story for King Arthur, it's not real." Oh, but isn't it? Is it? I wouldn't know because few people read medieval documents.
And my main problem is, I don't know if this is all suppose to be funny. Is this suppose to be funny? Or is it suppose to be cool and noble?
The opening of Chretain's story is one of the funniest things I've ever read, it's like an actual RPG encounter with a level 99 Dwarf who just keeps whipping the party. But I don't know if it's suppose to be funny!
They're trying to get passed him, and the Dwarf says literally "you shall not pass!", the queen sends out her handmaid and he whips her away, and then she sends one of the knights from the round table and he gets whipped in the face, and the Dwarf is on foot they're all on horses. And the text keeps talking about how evil and base-born and wicked the dwarf is. And I'm listening to this while reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvW5mjzT4WQBut there's this whole "leave the lady be!" culture, which is funny. But not to them, I guess. because girls were girls and men were men, Mr. we could use a man like King Arthur again.