Myth of the Month 12: The Arthur Cycle -- pt. 2: The Rise and Fall of Camelot
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight
The first arthurian romance in english was composed, but the author was not a courdier. It drew on a completely different story, and the arthur association was dropped. And this round tower at windsor has not survived. This suggests that maybe this project of using the arthur legend propagandistically and politically didn't work. There was some problem, and it was eventually abandoned and did not come back.
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