(CNN) — He’s the mythical Celtic warlord who held out against the Anglo Saxon invasion of what would come to be called England. His right-hand man was a wizard, he was handed his famous sword by a ...
Joe Scott digs into the legend of King Arthur, Britain’s most famous hero - and maybe its biggest illusion. There are no records of Arthur’s existence from his supposed lifetime, only stories written ...
In T.H. White’s conclusion to his “The Once and Future King” series, it’s understood that the king will be killed by the traitor Mordred at the Battle of Camlann. In Geoffrey of Monmouth’s “Historia ...
Conservator Sally Kilby and Błażej Mikuła photograph inside the folds of a medieval manuscript that was used as the cover for another book later on. - Cambridge University Library Researchers have ...
Here’s a millennia-old spoiler for you: King Arthur is dead. Or maybe he isn’t, depending on who you ask. In T.H. White’s conclusion to his “The Once and Future King” series, it’s understood that the ...