Myth of the Month 12: The Arthur Cycle -- pt. 1: Creating "King Arthur"
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Arthur in the Otronto Cathedral
In the 11 sixties, a pulia was held by normans, french fighters and colonizers of originally viking extraction. They had come down into the mediterranean and used apulia in italy as a base to attack constantinople. And they brought with them various servants and retainers, including a number of breton bards. These are french speaking minstrels and story tellers from brittany,. which centuries earlier had been colonized by celtic britons from great britain. The king arthur figure that they spoke and sang about was pretty much unrecognizable to us to day - completely different from the king arthur that we might talk
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