Does anybody know any information on King Arthur?

Question

He's my favorite warrior of all time him and Shaka Zulu are about a tie. Anyway, on King Arthur does anybody know any extra information about him? I rented the movie King Arthur but I never got to watch the damn thing because I had gotten thrown off schedule of watching it before I had to return it. Anyway, tell me what you know of him?

Answer 1

Arthur has been proven to be real, but his Legend is not. He was a Briton king just after the Romans left England. He stopped the advance of...the Jutes, perhaps? I don't remember exactly. But, he was not as portrayed. He was probably Welsh, and BIG. There were no "knights," they were his soldiers. He was NOT Christian. He was of the old religion. He never pursued the Holy Grail or held a sword called Excalibur. That word wasn't even in his language. To the best of my knowledge, he never slept with his sister, but in those days, you never know. What most people think of when they think of Arthur is the Chivalric Medieval creation of him, just like Robin Hood. The legends only got more mixed up when the Victorians got ahold of the story, because they were big on Romance. Not love, by the way. Sentiment. But, here's a cool bit, his name was probably spelled Arthws.

Oh, and Tintagel was a fortification at the time, but not a true castle, and was nowhere near where he would have lived.

He never united England. Alfred the Great was the first to unite England, and he was indeed Anglo-Saxon. The only books ever written directly about Arthur originally were written some 900 years after his death.

Answer 2

Arthur was at best a British general. King Arthur the movies comes the closest to who he really was. He is only a legend because the English love chivalry, and Arthur was just lucky enough to be chosen as the person they built up. He's a romantic figure, possible general, nothing more. Watch the movie, do research, decide for yourself like eveybody else does.

Answer 3

You could read 'Morte de Arthur' by Sir Thomas Malory, it is the most famous book on Arthur. Arthur was the first King of England to unite England. He was firstly the King of Wessex and Married a Welsh princess. He had a group of knights called the Kinght's of the Round Table. The table was round to emphasis that all who sat at it where equal - including Arthur himself. His most famous knight was Lancelot. Arthur was Anglo-Saxon and defeated repeated attacks by the Dane's with who he eventually lived in peace. Arthur, after an initial defeat, disguised himself and burn some 'cakes' in a cottage where he took refuge and that has become a famous tale. Malory's book contains that and many other tales. The knights of the Round table are said, by some, to have found the Holy Grail.

Answer 4

wouldn't bother with that movie, it has basically nothing to do with King Arthur

There is a big debate on whether or not he was actually a historical figure, or just myth (although most think he was real). He would have been around right after the romans left great britain and the anglo-saxons invaded. A popular theory is that he was the last attempt to unify the Britons after the romans left and therefore had to deal with both romanized britons and those that still held to the celtic ways of life.

Answer 5

He was said to have been born in Tintagel castle in Cornwall and buried at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset. Had a bunch of knights that sat around a round table and dreamed of finding the Holey Grail, although why they would want a cup that leaks is anybody's guess.

Answer 6

Pray that God gives you the STRENGTH to trot your lazy butt down to the local library and discover BOOKS. Amen, bro.