Arthur

4 08, 2017

Tristan and Isolde – King Arthur’s Round Table

By |2018-04-22T10:26:50-07:00August 4th, 2017|Literature, Medieval|Comments Off on Tristan and Isolde – King Arthur’s Round Table

Tristan and Isolde, in a German woodcut (1400s AD) In the story, Isolde was a princess in Ireland, and a great healer. She was the best doctor in the land. One day this guy [...]

4 08, 2017

Knights of the Round Table – Medieval England

By |2019-10-31T06:53:09-07:00August 4th, 2017|Literature, Medieval|Comments Off on Knights of the Round Table – Medieval England

Lancelot to the rescue! Notice the importance of his strong steel sword. (Knights of the Round Table) A framing device In the early Middle Ages, poets and story-tellers were telling a lot [...]

4 08, 2017

King Arthur and Morgaine – Medieval England

By |2017-08-04T07:50:14-07:00August 4th, 2017|Literature, Medieval|Comments Off on King Arthur and Morgaine – Medieval England

King Arthur and the Lady of the Lake Morgaine, or Morgan, first appears in written stories about 1150 AD. There are different stories about her, but most of them agree that [...]

4 08, 2017

King Arthur and Mordred – Medieval England

By |2017-08-04T07:46:35-07:00August 4th, 2017|Literature, Medieval|Comments Off on King Arthur and Mordred – Medieval England

King Arthur (Flores Historiarum, 1200s AD) Mordred first shows up in writing as early as 960 AD. His name's in the Annales Cambriae, in the entry for the year 537 AD. He [...]

3 08, 2017

King Arthur stories – Knights of the Round Table

By |2017-08-03T21:05:22-07:00August 3rd, 2017|Literature, Medieval|Comments Off on King Arthur stories – Knights of the Round Table

King Arthur hunting, 1300s AD (British Library, London) Stories about King Arthur may be based on a real man who ruled southern England about 450 AD, just after the Romans left, but nobody knows anything [...]

2 08, 2017

King Arthur’s Britain – Medieval history

By |2019-09-11T11:29:54-07:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on King Arthur’s Britain – Medieval history

Like the people King Arthur was fighting: Sutton Hoo invaders' helmet (500s-600s AD, now in the British Museum) The end of Roman Britain When Constantine III revolted in England in 406 AD and [...]

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