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He is, of course, King Arthur, a figure so imbued with beauty ... He was supposedly the leader of a tribe of Celts — ...
Yet many Britons accepted it as the truth. In 1191 the monks of Glastonbury Abbey dug up a pair of skeletons in their churchyard and touted them as the remains of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere ...
Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...
The story of King Arthur dates as far back as the 5th century, when Welsh poets and storytellers began speaking of a legendary king of the Britons who fought valiantly against Saxon invaders.
Historians recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document depicting the tales of King Arthur and Merlin – and its survival is considered a miracle. The discovery was announced by the University ...
The victory halted the Saxon advance for at least half a century. Whether Arthur was actually a king or merely a warrior, however, is less clear. It is believed that he was the leader of Brythonic ...
The literary King Arthur story that developed in the later middle ages reduces ... But why was the Germanic conquest of ancient Britons so gradual? Storr argues that the answer is largely military.
An alternative version of the King Arthur legend. As a boy, Arthur is left orphaned after his father, King Uther Pendragon, and mother are killed in a war waged against them by Vortigern ...
On May 4th and 7th, the Dietrich Theater will be having screenings to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the funniest films of all time – “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” A comedic ...
The fragment contains stories about Merlin and King Arthur. The two pages are from a 13th century copy of the “Suite Vulgate du Merlin.” The manuscript, handwritten by a medieval scribe in Old ...