Legend of King Arthur & the Round Table

The Arthurian legends began as a literary form in the twelfth century with traveling minstrels who told stories of heroism, usually built in the exploits of the French king Charlemagne, or Charles the Great (742-814 A.D.). Another group of stories was known as The Matter of Rome, and these stories included tales from both Rome and Ancient Greece about the period before the siege of Troy. The third group of stories was known as The Matter of Britain. These stories grew in popularity during the twelfth century, and the tales told of the lives of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, of their magnificent castle at Camelot, of Merlin the Magician, and of the Round Table and the search for the Holy Grail. The oral literature was the only means by which many of these stories were then transmitted, and even if there were a kernel of truth in them, i

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re victors." The second is dated 539 and reads as follows: "The Battle of Camlann, in which Arthur and Mordred perished. And there was plague in Britain and Ireland." According to the Annals, Arthur fought in the Battle of Badon for three days and three nights. This battle has historical validity because it is mentioned elsewhere without the Arthurian connection (Jenkins 28-29). The Battle of Badon is mentioned by the British monk and historian, Gildas, who details much of the British counter-attack on the northern hordes. The Annales Cambriae, an early Welsh source, mentioned the Battle of badon as taking place in either 516 or 518. Gildas does not name the general involved in this battle, but Welsh tradition says the leader was Arthur. The fist question is whether Arthur is the name of a Celt born somewhere in the 470s, and it could be true since the name is a Celticized Roman name, derived from Artorius (Ashe 38-39). Arthur's status as a leader with a career rests primarily on one chapter in the Welsh book History of the Britons, a chaotic work compiled early in the ninth century by Nennius, a cleric desirous of reasserting a sense of national dignity after a long period of eclipse. He is neither a good writer nor a
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