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King Arthur is just about the most famous and certainly the most renowned medieval king. From the first ninth hundred years through the middle age groups, to the Arthurian romances of Victorian times, the tales of this renowned shape have blossomed and multiplied. And in newer times, there has been a continuous blast of books claiming to possess learned the "facts" about, or even to unlock the secret or fact behind, the "once and future king". Broadly speaking, there are two Arthurs. On the main one hand is the original "historical" Arthur, waging a doomed struggle to save Roman civilization up against the relentless Anglo-Saxon tide during the darkest years of the Dark Age ranges. On the other is the Arthur of myth and legend - accompanied by a host of evenly renowned people, places, and testimonies: Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad and Gawain, Merlin, Excalibur, the Lady in the Lake, the Sword in the Stone, Camelot, the Round Table. The top problem with all of this is the fact that "King Arthur" might well never have been around. Of course, if he did exist, it is hard to say anything at all about him. As this challenging new look at the Arthur legend makes clear, all catalogs claiming to expose "the truth" behind King Arthur can easily be ignored. Not merely the "red herrings" in the abundant pseudo-historical accounts, even the "historical" Arthur is largely a figment of the imagination: The data that people have - whether written or archaeological - is simply incapable of telling us anything thorough about the Britain where he is supposed to have resided, fought, and perished. The truth, as Man Halsall unveils in this attractive investigation, is both radically different - and also a great deal more intriguing.
