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Sorry never seen that - where does it say he fought Saracens.
by pasc1878 1mo ago
Sorry never seen that - where does it say he fought Saracens.
- QuesnayJr 1mo agoMallory's Morte d'Arthur. Most of the Arthur "myth" is deliberately constructed fiction by specific authors, rather than folk myths.
- bryanrasmussen 1mo agoI'd put Le Morte D'Arthur as the first modernization of the myths, not another myth.
- jhbadger 1mo agoYeah. There is a difference between something like Geoffrey's "De gestis Britonum" which was thought by the author to be sort of true, and Malory who knew he was writing literature.
- QuesnayJr 1mo agoMost of what people think about as part of the Arthur myth are from literary sources, like Lancelot, the Knights of the Round Table, or the Grail quest.
- bryanrasmussen 1mo agoPeredur from the Mabinogion and Chrétien De Troyes Perceval are pretty strongly related, implying that there is a common Celtic source tale, but I don't think anyone has ever found one.