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I guess like most legends, they all began with a fact which gets added to as time passes on. The Templars story is a really interesting and curious one.
Originally posted by merry_miller:
King Arthur worth watching ? it was god awful.
Only adaptation i've really enjoyed watching at all was Merlin.
Late 90's sometime i think it was, not particularly realistic in anyway but should be on at christmas time it usually is.
There's a new King Arthur film out in the upcoming months btw saw the trailer a few months back for it, looked quite promising.
Can't for the life of me think what its called though
Merlin is that the one with the bloke who plays the high elf in lord of the rings? if so there is also a sequel to it, and they are both quite bad tbh.
The arthur legends all follow the french medieval romance vision of society/chivalry/valour and stuff, so I think it's pretty certain that they were put together around the 12/13th century, to give the impression that England had a chivalric tradition that went back to before the norman conquest. Which if you read pre-1066 anglo-saxon poetry like Beowulf and the battle of Maldon is clearly untrue.
Depends what you mean by "the" Arthur legends, I suppose. In the Mabinogion, for example, there's "Culhwch and Olwen", which features Arthur's court. If I recall correctly this is the earliest known Arthurian story and is dated to the eight century, though the version of it we have is from the thirteenth. There's also "The Dream of Rhonabwy", which is later but still doesn't feature French additions like Lancelot: the great heroes are Bedwyr (later Bedevere) and Cai (later the buffoonish Sir Kay).
Excalibur is an excellent film.
The kid in gold armour, clickety click, is Charlie Boorman (Jon's son) who is in Long Way Down.
If you ever get the chance pop on down to Tintagel in Cornwall.
It's a really cool place to go and is meant to be the location of Camelot although there are a number of other sites ranging across the Welsh coastline and into the West Country, that also have staked a claim.
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