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The Round Table became part of Arthurian tradition through twelfth-century literary development. Wace’s Roman de Brut, written in Anglo-Norman French, helped popularise the image of a circular table around which Arthur’s great knights could…
Open archive record →The medieval Welsh chronicle known as the Annales Cambriae associates Arthur with Mount Badon and with Camlann, where Arthur and Medraut are said to have fallen. These notices belong to an important early layer…
Open archive record →The Historia Brittonum, generally associated with the early ninth century, presents Arthur as a martial leader rather than the fully developed king of later romance. It assigns him a sequence of victories and connects…
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