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This group intends to elucidate and discuss several aspects that approach to Arthurian Studies, Medievalism, Dark Ages period, including Mythologies and Celts.

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What the priests do not know with their one God and single Truth is, that true history does not, in actuality, exist. The truth has many faces and resembles the old road that leads to Avalon, admittance to which depends both on our proper will and our thoughts...
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Siwrnai hychwaneg anwyld Gwynhwfar, at'..'r llyn ni ll dawnsia at'r leuad belydr a ca'r chledd I mewn a iddylic bant!



King Arthur was King and he always be King - Sir Thomas Malory


The Once and Future King. - T. H. White



Summary


by Edileide Brito

The search for a real King Arthur and subsequent identification has approached something very complicated, sending us to a, fascinating, and complex universe. Neverthless, proving the hypotheses either way is some sort of achievement, that would probably be considered impossible. However, let us through our imagination, consider the changes to this Arthur into an ideal man, perfect in accord with our wishes and hopes (or maybe dreams and fantasies). Therefore, this medieval King or battle leader, has fascinated, our curiosity and raised some complex and serious questions for researchers, historians, literary scholars and readers, since earliest centuries, and has become the everlasting image of King Arthur, and inkeeping Sir Thomas Malory’s prophecy that asserted and is documented that: “King Arthur was a king and he will be a king”. However, some implications about a historic Arthur are irrelevant, but, it is probable, that he could had lived between fifth and sixth centuries A.D.; this could place him as a great celtic battle leader, who defended the Ancient Britons, agaisnt Saxon invaders.The chivalrous knight novels had their beginning, through the Medieval Gestae Songs originateded from the Vikings and Germanic tribal people, that swiftly spread all over the continent of Europe. Medieval knight novels, are those composed of long texts of prose, and whichever theme appreciates and shows off brave virtuous heroes; where the main character, such as a great warrior or king brings out the qualities required; courage, honor, justice and the skill to use every sort of weapon. Apparently, those novels, seem to align with the oldest epic poems of the Classic Age, but maybe they are different, because of the focus on a single character, rather than against the collective greek and roman epics. Whilst classic authors identified a hero as a community icon, representing all ideals and beliefs of collectivity, some authors in famous medieval gestae songs, ascribed for their heroes, a kind of weakeness; arguments that take turns on social circunstances, some features, preceding an archetypal future for the romantic hero, a character who searches for a kind of authenticy value in a degraded society. And despite of some circunstances, the theme in texts of medieval knights are always battles, fantastic adventures, dragons, and other sort of supernatural creatures.


Key-words: King Arthur, Mith, Literature, Celtic Warlord


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