Summation of the Legend of King Arthur Blog 1

A short summary of the Legend of King Arthur, Camelot, and the knights of the Round Table. King Arthur was a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defense of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.

King Arthur was begotten by his father in an act of illusion in which King Uther Pendragon was transformed by the magician Merlin, into the likeness of Lady Egraine’s husband the Duke of Cornwall, who had sired a daughter by Egraine named Morgana la Faye. As payment for the necessary spell casting Merlin demanded the baby, named Arthur Pendragon.

That would happen when Arthur, then a teenager, stumbled across the sword’s resting place, having lost his brother Kay’s sword. He pulled the sword and tried to give it to Kay, but was soon recognized by many as the rightful king. A civl war ensued, where some rebelled against the boy king, but many were won over by the young man’s courage, honesty and good nature.

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Arthur shared power, and constructed a Round Table of equals, heralded throughout history. King Arthur united the isle of Britain and ruled benevolently. All was peace and prosperity until his wife Guinevere committed an act of infidelity with Arthur’s chief knight, Sir Lancelot. Arthur languished in a depression until the return of the ever questing Sir Galahad, son of sir Lancelot, like Arthur also born of an act of deception, for a woman was disguised as Guinevere, for Lancelot would not betray his love for his queen for not one instant.

Arthur’s half sister Morgana la Faye, with whom he mistakenly sired a son, Mordred, was responsible for the sorcery involved. Sir Galahad searched far and wide for the Holy Grail, the cup Christ Jesus used in His Last Supper. When Arthur drank of this cup it rejuvenated his vitality, enough to protect the realm from the rise of the wicked Mordred, his illegitimate son born of incest. This noble act however, ended the great King’s life, his fabled sword thrown back to the Lady of The Lake, that mysterious entity who had first bequeathed the blade unto Arthur, by Sir Percival.