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He becomes king. With the guidance of Merlin, he constructs a round table, at which only the best knights of Britain may sit. [3] More and more knights come to join the brotherhood of the Round Table, and each has his own adventures. [3] Eventually, the holy knight Galahad, the son of Sir Lancelot, comes to Arthur's court.
King Arthur (Welsh: Brenin Arthur, Cornish: Arthur Gernow, Breton: Roue Arzhur, French: Roi Arthur), according to legends, was a king of Britain. He is a folk hero and a central figure in the medieval literary tradition known as the Matter of Britain .
The in-story is taken up by two long lists and the adventures of King Arthur and his men. One list is a roster of names, some two hundred of the greatest men, women, dogs, horses and swords in Arthur's kingdom recruited to aid Arthur's kinsman Culhwch in his bridal quest.
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally written as le morte Darthur; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") [1] is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore.
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights is a 1903 children's novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. The book contains a compilation of various stories, adapted by Pyle, regarding the legendary King Arthur of Britain and select Knights of the Round Table .
"The Story of King Arthur and His Knights" (1903) "The Story of the Champions of the Round Table" (1905) "The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions" (1907) "The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur" (1910) Kairo-kō (1905) by Natsume Sōseki; The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis (1905) by Clemence Housman [23]
Lancelot stops his half-brother Hector from killing Arthur defeated in battle, as depicted by William Dyce in King Arthur Unhorsed, Spared by Sir Launcelot (1852) As told in the Vulgate Merlin, Hector is an illegitimate son of King Ban of Benoic (in today's France), who, magically helped by Merlin, fathered him with the Lady de Maris. He is ...
Though the Round Table is not mentioned in the earliest accounts, tales of King Arthur having a marvellous court made up of many prominent warriors are ancient. Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Historia Regum Britanniae (composed c. 1136) says that, after establishing peace throughout Britain, Arthur "increased his personal entourage by inviting very distinguished men from far-distant kingdoms to ...