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king aurther. the feast of Pentacost all manner of men assayed to pull at
the sword that wold assay, but none might prevail but Arthur ...
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the feast of Pentacost all manner of men assayed to
pull at the sword that wold assay, but none might prevail but Arthur,
and he pulled it afore all the lords and commons that were there,
wherefore all the commons cried at once, 'We will have Arthur unto
our king; we will put him no more in delay, for we all see that it is
God's will that he shall be our king, and who that holdeth against it,
we will slay him'.
And therewith they all kneeled at once, both rich and
poor, and cried Arthur mercy because they had delayed him so
long. And Arthur forgave them, and took the sword between
both his hands, and offered it upon the altar where the Archbishop
was, and so was he made knight of the best man there.
The above passage is from LeMmorte d'Arthur : the history of King Arthur
and his noble knights of the Round Table, by Sir Thomas Malory, a book that
was written and published between 1469-1470, during the reign of King Edward
IV. Prior to this document, the exact origins of Arthurian legend are difficult to
trace reliably before the twelfth century, when Geoffrey of Monmouth produced
the History of the Kings of Britain, in which he devotes the last third of the book
to King Arthur, with the first two thirds leading up to this climax. Although
Monmouth's history contains passages which can be deemed 'mystical' in
nature, especially in regards to Arthur, the preceding pages leading up to King
Arthur's appearance, read as straight history as opposed to mythical tale. I founf
this not only hard to follow but also hard to swlaoow. I think
it's all in the
interpeators eyes. Some see the same facts or so-called-facts and read the
same documents of the same time periods and come up with completly different
ideas. King Arthur would have lived in the end of the fifth century to...
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