Myth of the Month 12: The Arthur Cycle -- pt. 1: Creating "King Arthur"
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The Arthur Mythology
The earliest surviving references that have been found to some kind of important figure or leader called arthur are in early mediaeval welsh and breton bardick poems. They don't tell us much about the larger mythology, what would become the arthur cycle. So i'm going to go now, step by step through the main sources for who arthur is, what did he do? What did he stand for? What was his world?
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