The stories and legends surrounding the character of King Arthur are among
the best known of all stories about kings and knights.
The stories and legends surrounding the character of King Arthur are
among the best known of all stories about kings and knights. He is the
greatest of British literary heroes, although little is known about
the real person. Folklore and literature provide examples of a
recurrent myth about a leader or hero who has not really died, but is
asleep somewhere or in some estate of suspended life who will return
to save his people (Geocities 3). There is little real historical
information left about him other than, texts, chronicles, verses,
myths, and fragments of epic poems, inscriptions, symbols and graven
images. Although these writings can be interesting literature, they
lack the factual evidence and they are obscure in details. It is not
even possible to say that a real King Arthur even existed, for the
records of his existence go back to the fifth, sixth and seventh
centuries AD, when the Welsh and English kingdoms which were to
replace Roman government were only beginning (Green 1).
Most of the stories involving King Arthur are primarily fiction;
however, there remains the possibility that a character called Arthur
may have actually existed. It would have been during the time when the
islands of Britain were being threatened with invasion by the Saxons,
following the collapse of the Roman Empire and the withdrawal of Roman
Legions from Britain. Authors often embellish the tales of King Arthur
to fit their own purposes. Through the centuries, the concept of
Arthur didn't stay the same, and there is no "standard" Arthurian
Legend (Dumville 9). The truth about King Arthur may never be known,
however there are many theories in which logical guesses concur with
the writings during that time.
King Arthur does not appear in the legends until around 1170 AD, when
it is mentioned in "Lancelot (Bromwich 42)." There is still a great
deal of speculation about the possible whereabouts of Camelot, if it
even existed at all. Sir Thomas Malory in Morte D'Arthur identifies
Winchester as the site in a work written around the fifteenth century.
The origins of King Arthur come to the conclusion that there is no
reason to believe that the concept of Arthur as a warrior is anything
other than a secondary deve...
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...t the stories that are created about King Arthur are,
for the most part, enjoyable and enticing. Many English poets and
writers, such as Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Walter Scott, Alfred
Tennyson, and William Morris used Malory's book about King Arthur as a
source for their own writing and Richard Wagner based some of his
operas on Arthurian tales. King Arthur and his Knights of the Round
Table are not forgotten even today. As of today, there are many films
that can be traced to have an Arthurian theme.
Works Cited
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-Ashe, G. 1986: The Arthurian Encyclopedia (New York) Pages 76-78.
-Bromwich, R. 1983: Celtic Elements in Arthurian Romance (Cambridge)
Pages 41-55
-Dumville, D.N. 1986: Arthurian Literature 6 (Cambridge) Pages 1-26.
-Geocities: A Man for the Ages-Arthur, King or Battle Commander/
www.geocities.com
-Green, T. 1999: Arthurian Characters/ www.users .globalnet.co.uk.
-Jarman, A.O.H. 1983: The Legend of Arthur in the Middle Ages
(Cambridge) Pages. 99-112.
-Koch, J.T.1996: Medieval Arthurian Literature: A Guide to Recent
Research (New York) Pages 239-322.
-Abrams. 2000: Malory, T. 7th Century: Morte D'Arthur Pages 421-439
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