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King Arthur, Man or Myth > 
For over a thousand years, storytellers have spun tales of King Arthur of Britain, his Queen Guinevere, and the circle of his noble Knights. The Arthur of popular culture is variously a late Roman, a Celt, or a paragon of high medieval chivalry; a king, a general, or a guerilla warrior holding off the barbarian horde. At the core of all the chronicles and all the legends, the seed of these tales, lies the shadowy figure of a leader who may have fought at Badon and perhaps died at Camlann, wherever those places might be...
Arthurian websites abound on the 'Net, some scholarly and some beautiful, some weird and some downright wacky. Here are my favorite survey sites, and some explorations of the power of these tales today.
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More on this Website >
• http://www.legends.dm.net/kingarthur/index.html
• Arthurian Resources • Edit
• King Arthur, The Movie • Edit
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The Venerable Bede, Servant of Christ
The extraordinary life of the Venerable Bede created a rich legacy that is celebrated today at Bede's World, Jarrow, where Bede lived and worked 1300 years ago. "Servant... |
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Historia Brittonum, Nennius
In the ninth century AD a celtic monk, fearful that the history of his people would be lost forever, gathered together into one book such scraps of history as he... |
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