Post by m***@hotmail.comhi!
my name is Morgane, I'm 20 years old and I come from Brittany.
I'm interested in King Arthur Myth and I would like to have information
about it. Have Arthur existed Really ?
morgane
Hello Morgane and welcome to ALKA. I envy you your homeland - Brittany
is rife with Arthurian tradition!
There are thousands of websites with information on the Arthurian
traditions - a Google search will overwhelm you, so I won't bother
listing any at the moment. I'd just suggest one thing in your thinking
about Arthur however. Whether he existed or not, the stories about him
are more legend than myth. Myths tend to be about Gods or other
ethereal beings. Legends are about humans. Generally, Arthur is taken
to have been a human.
Did he exist? Probably not in the sense of a King, but there may have
been someone who lead a resistance movement upon whom the legends are
based. The recent movie from Touchstone Pictures, "King Arthur",
starring Clive Owen, presented a theory about Arthur that is tantalizing
- that he was a Roman in charge of a group of Sarmatian knights assigned
to duty in Britain at the time of Rome's withdrawal from the Island.
There are many other theories about who he might have been, all equally
interesting.
Hope you enjoy the group and that your research spurs some good
discussion here.
Best regards,
Bert
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