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Camelot is a legendary castle and court associated with King Arthur.Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world.
The romance Arthur has become popular in film and theatre as well. T. H. White's novel was adapted into the Lerner and Loewe stage musical Camelot (1960) and Walt Disney's animated film The Sword in the Stone (1963); Camelot, with its focus on the love of Lancelot and Guinevere and the cuckolding of Arthur, was itself made into a film of the ...
The following is a list and assessment of sites and places associated with King Arthur and the Arthurian legend in general. Given the lack of concrete historical knowledge about one of the most potent figures in British mythology, it is unlikely that any definitive conclusions about the claims for these places will ever be established; nevertheless it is both interesting and important to try ...
King Arthur of Camelot felled a giant. He pulled the magical Excalibur sword from rock. Despite these claims to fame, the legendary medieval king wasn’t real—but a 5,000-year-old tomb named ...
Excalibur pulling contest to prove the young Arthur's divine right to the throne of King of the Britons: Prose Merlin: Arthur is warned of Mordred's birth and the coming fall of his kingdom Post-Vulgate Cycle (c. 1235) Merlin sets up the search for the Holy Grail by Arthur's Knights of the Round Table: Prose Perceval (after 1200)
The Greene Knight, King Arthur and King Cornwall: A knight enchanted by Morgan le Fay in order to test Gawain Griflet† Girflet, Jaufre Jaufré: The son of Do (or Don), cousin to Sir Lucan and Sir Bedivere Gringolet (Welsh: Gwyn Calet, Ceincaled) Erec and Enide, c. 1170 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Gawain's horse Guinevak: Gwenhwyvach
Oct. 31—"Camelot," the classic Arthurian tale of a romantic triangle gone bad, opens at Albuquerque Little Theatre on Friday, Nov. 3. The recipient of 12 Tony nominations, five Academy Award ...
Arthur Rackham's illustration for Alfred W. Pollard's The Romance of King Arthur (1917) The challenge of drawing a sword from a stone (placed on the river just outside Camelot ) also appears in the later Arthurian story of Galahad , whose achievement of the task indicates that he is destined to find the Holy Grail , as also foretold in Merlin's ...