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King Arthur
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King Arthur: see Arthurian legend Arthurian legend, the mass of legend, popular in medieval lore, concerning King Arthur of Britain and his knights. Medieval Sources


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And were you aware that former James Bond Sean Connery once swashbuckled his way through an Arthurian romance shot in Cardiff Castle?
Guide reveals lesser-known film locations by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Harward's still not superseded book (The Dwarfs of Arthurian Romance and Celtic Tradition, 1958) explores the provenance of dwarfs in the literature and Joan Brumlik's article "The Knight, the Lady, and the Dwarf in Chretien's Erec (1992) explores the role of the dwarf in the earliest of Chretien's romances.
Medieval studies by Michigan Academician
While details may be borrowed anywhere, or invented, the structure of the novels remains faithful to the school-story tradition, and in its main lines the setting of the novels is firmly ensconced in a very specific source of medieval motifs that is Arthurian romance, or, very occasionally, Arthurian romance revisited by twentieth-century writers.
Forbidden Forest, enchanted castle: Arthurian spaces in the Harry ... by Petrina, Alessandra / Mythlore
 
 
 
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