KING ARTHUR

Searching for the truth behind the myth, one finds very few hard facts to tell the story. In searching through reliable records of the time, historians have found scarcely more than the bare bones of a story. By carefully arranging these bones and fleshing them out with what is known about the period, a slightly fuller picture can be created, though it is not one that resembles the Broadway production of Camelot.

Numerous scholars have culled the scanty records available, supported additionally in some cases by archaeological excavation, and they seem to agree on the basic facts. During the second half of the fourth century Roman forces gradually withdrew from Britain, and by 410 the Britons were told that Rome would no longer offer aid against the invading Saxon barbarians. By the middle of the fifth century the Roman superstructure had disappeared and small factions were fighting with one anothe

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the legend, and these include Tennyson, T. H. White, Mary Stewert, and Lerner and Loew C even Wagner was tantalized by it. Over the last one thousand years there are those who have attempted to prove, and sometimes disprove, various aspects of the Arthurian myth. Place names abound in Wales, England, and Scotland that local people have associated with Arthur's name C Arthur's Cairn in the Prescelly Mountains in Wales, Arthur's Chair and Arthur's Oven in the area near Bodmin, but these are generally regarded as nothing more than folklore. Various places vie for the location of Badon, some say it must have been Bath but others have other notions, and no one seems to be able to prove anything for certain in regards to any one of several suggested sites. And the same holds true for most other locations affiliated with the story. Tintagel is often cited in the romance versions as Arthur's birthplace, Geoffrey described the castle situated on the rocky crag there, but archaeology has shown this to be at odds with history. Excavation of the site revealed that the promontory had hosted a farmstead in the latter half of the fourth century, and sometime around 500 St. Julian built a small church on what was then an abandoned site
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