Monty Python references aside, What do you know about King Arthur, Sir Gawain, King Mark and Sir Tristram, all Arthurian characters?

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HappyTo BeHereTo Profile

No Monty Python?  Well you just sucked the fun out of this question...

My husband has read lots on this topic.  I think that buzzing in my ear isn't tinnitus.  It's Mr. Happy sharing what he's learned.

Did I absorb any knowledge?  Pfffft...  I fart in your general direction.

🙃  okay... just kidding... some...

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HappyTo BeHereTo
HappyTo BeHereTo commented
Ray? Is it true that the royal family doesn't name their children Arthur because of the legend?
Ray Dart
Ray Dart commented
I'm not sure that is necessarily true. And Prince Charles is actually Charles Philip Arthur George so an "Arthur" has crept in there.
HappyTo BeHereTo
HappyTo BeHereTo commented
So much for fact checking by the American press. This was said several times while the world was waiting to hear what William and Kate would name baby George.
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Walt O'Reagun answered

Some research I have read / heard / watched ... State that "King Arthur" legends are a mix of various minor lords, some of whom may have tried to unite the various tribes/cities/fiefdoms around the time the Roman Empire pulled out of England ... Some of whom may have been Romans.

Like many myths and legends, the stories probably originated with actual people ... But due to migrations and mixing of people, oral histories got combined and confused.

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Ray Dart
Ray Dart commented
Yes, good stuff. There is some evidence, in the form of a cruciform "castle" and settlement in "West Country" England, for a Romano-Celtic local chieftain who attempted to hold back the Saxon invasion in the 6th century. It is possible that some of the legend is based upon him. That castle, incidentally, is near to a place called Queen Camel.

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