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	King Arthur
		Arthur again removed it from the stone and Merlin told the lords of Arthur's noble blood and he was crowned king.
		King Arthur and Guenevere were married and all the knights assembled around the table and swore to uphold the rules and high ideals of the Round Table.
		Arthur's and Lancelot's Knights met in battle and Arthur was knocked from his horse by Sir Bors.
	goodies.freeservers.com /arthur.html (1688 words)

	100 Great Black Britons - Arthur Wharton
		Arthur Wharton was born in Ghana in 1865; his father was half Grenadian and half Scottish, and his mother was from Ghanaian royalty.
		In 1882 Arthur moved to England to train as a missionary, but quickly became bored with the academic and religious life and left school to pursue a sporting career.
		There was speculation at the time that Arthur was good enough to play for England, but he was never considered for the position by the FA, due in part to the racial prejudice of the time.
	www.100greatblackbritons.com /bios/arthur_wharton.html (483 words)

	BBC - History - King Arthur (Dates unknown)
		It is possible that the legendary Arthur, associated with the Welsh legends of the 10th century, is based on the historical figure who commanded a British force against the Saxons.
		According to the 9th-century historian Nennius, this Arthur defeated the Saxons at Mount Badon in 518 and died at Camlan in 537.
		The Arthur of legend is first characterised in the Welsh Mabinogi, a collection of medieval tales, and it is this literary character who is associated with Company of the Round Table and the search for the Holy Grail.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/arthur_king.shtml (139 words)

	Life of King Arthur
		When Arthur was wintering in Cornwall, the king met Guinevere (called Guanhumara by Geoffrey), ward of Cador, a young and beautiful woman, who was descended from a noble Roman family.
		Arthur moved his army to Autun, and sends his nephew, Gawain along with Boso of Oxford and Gerin of Chartres (from Charlemagne's Twelve Peers), as embassy to Lucius.
		Arthur told the captive Romans to return the body of Lucius Hiberius to the Senate, that this was his payment of his tributes to Rome.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/lifearthur.html (4231 words)

	Arthurian Biographies: Arthur, King of the Britons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Arthur, it seems, is claimed as the King of nearly every Celtic Kingdom known.
		The 6th century certainly saw many men named Arthur born into the Celtic Royal families of Britain but, despite attempts to identify the great man himself amongst them, there can be little doubt that most of these people were only named in his honour.
		Arthur's connection with this area of Britain is purely due to his supposedly being conceived at Tintagel, the residence of his mother's first husband, and buried at
	www.bmuschool.org /webquests/medieval/Arthur.htm (1326 words)

	Arthurian Legend
		Arthurian Legend, group of tales in several languages that concern the legendary King Arthur of the Britons, his realm, and the knights of his inner circle.
		Arthur is conceived when King Uther Pendragon falls in love with a married woman, Ygraine, and arranges for the magician Merlin to transform him into the likeness of Ygraine's husband.
		Arthur orders that his sword be thrown into the lake to prevent it from falling into unworthy hands.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/demons/arthurleg.htm (2790 words)

	Artorius, Ambrosius, Arthur - Questing for the Historical Arthur, King of the Britons by Sheila Brynjulfson
		Arthur is not named in the Triad, yet the ancient link between Arthur and Bodwyr provides a small amount of muscle for this interpretation.
		Since Arthur was less noble than those he commanded, Gildas may not have seen fit to identify him as a "Roman." The puzzle of Arthur's identity becomes a bit clearer.
		Arthur mab Uter, the terrible warrior, twelve times chosen by kings to command, was not himself a king.
	www.vortigernstudies.org.uk /artgue/guestsheila2.htm (6770 words)

	Arthur, King of the Britons
		Arthur has been claimed by the Bretons, the British, the Cornish, the Welsh, and the Scots.
		On the dark, storm-shrouded horizon, we also have the historians that claim Arthur never existed, that he was the invention of the Welsh and Britons, a shining hero for their dark times, a humanity laid over old tales of the gods and modernized as a backdrop for the romances of the present.
		Even though Arthur appears only in the later "B" version and not in the "A" version, which possibly makes the reference no older than the ninth or tenth century, the Y Gododdin reference tells us that Arthur was considered a fit model for a Votadini warrior fighting in northern Britain.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/infopedia/a/arthur.htm (1650 words)

	King Arthur
		Recently discovered archaeological evidence suggests that this ‘Arthur’ rallied the Britons against barbarian invaders from Germany...the Anglo-Saxons, and halted their advance into central and western Britain in the fifth century." Historian Geoffrey Ashe’s perspective is not too far from this.
		So, the story of Arthur and the recovery of the Britons does have its roots in something that was quite unique: the successful struggle of an independent, formerly Roman people against a barbarian invader." Of Arthur, Ashe is of the opinion that he was a man with the title of Riothamus, meaning "high king".
		Most of Arthur’s efforts are directed against the Woads (Britons fighting against Roman rule) led by Merlin and counting among their numbers Guinevere (Knightley), but approaching Saxon invaders and corrupt Roman officials provoke a re-evaluation of his priorities and loyalties.
	www.inkandashes.net /king_arthur.html (1130 words)

	Artorius, Ambrosius, Arthur: Questing for the historical Arthur, King of the Britons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Then Arthur fought against those men in those days with the kings of the Britons, but he was the leader of battles.
		The eighth battle was at the fort of Guinnion, in which Arthur carried the image of the blessed Mary.
		The civil strife was apparently between Vortigern, perhaps leading Britons glad to be free of Roman rule, and Ambrosius, the son of a highly ranked Roman family.
	www.littleboh.com /arthur.shtml (6738 words)

	Arthur King of the Britons
		Arthur is not the only leader who rests until his country needs him, but the confidence he evidently inspired in northern Europe is reflected in claims for his dormant presence in places as far apart as the coast of Norway and the Celtic fringes of France.
		Although the existence of Arthur as a king of Britain is taken to be fact, it is in actuality very ambiguous, historically speaking, though recent research has pushed forward a re-evaluation of this.
		For hundreds of years a real Arthur was taken for granted, whether he be a story or an actual personality was unimportant, what was important was he existed in the tale itself.
	www.top-lip.com /Arthur.htm (845 words)

	The Historical King Arthur \| King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Geoffrey Ashe argues that King Arthur was an historical King in Brittany known to history as Riothamus, a title meaning "Greatest-King".
		The main trouble with this Arthurian identification is that it pushes King Arthur back fifty years from his traditional period at the beginning of the sixth century (See Ashe 1985).
		Arthur's connection with this area of Britain is purely due to his supposedly being conceived at Tintagel, the residence of his mother's first husband, and buried at Glastonbury, the most ancient Christian site in the country.
	www.kingarthursknights.com /arthur/king.asp (1370 words)

	Arthur of the Britons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur of the Britons was a short-lived (1972–1973) but fondly remembered British television show about the "historical" King Arthur.
		Cerdig, chieftain of the Saxons, is Arthur's main nemesis.
		Oliver Tobias – Arthur, Chief of the Celts
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_of_the_Britons (262 words)

	King Arthur (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the course of this mission, Arthur encounters and rescues Guinevere (Keira Knightley), a Woadish princess, from the imprisonment and torture of the Roman citizen he is charged with rescuing.
		It would appear that the Arthur depicted in in the film is based most closely upon Ambrosius Aurelianus, the Romano-Briton who fought against the Saxons in the 5th century, and was probably the leader of the Romano-British and Celts at the Battle of Mons Badonicus.
		It is notable that it is Merlin, rather than a Christian priest, who marries Arthur and Guinevere at the end, and that Arthur, one of the film's few "good" Christian characters, is shown as a follower of a sect deemed heretical by the Roman pope.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Arthur_(movie) (2477 words)

	King Arthur :: The Middle Ages
		Arthur also appears in the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, a narrative that is usually associated with the Mabinogion.
		Arthur, who is described as his kinsman, agrees to the request, and fulfills the demands of Olwen's giant father Ysbadden, which includes his hunt for the great boar Twrch Trwth, described at length by the author.
		Arthur was a casualty in his last battle, the Battle of Camlann, which he fought against the forces of Mordred.
	www.themiddleages.net /people/king_arthur.html (2232 words)

	King Arthur - the movie
		There is no historical key that reduces the legends of Arthur and his court, which accumulated in the middle ages not just in Geoffrey's chronicle and the Welsh Mabinogion but in the French romance cycle and the German epics of Parzival and Tristan, to flat, sombre fact.
		Arthur, in the version that has been best known for centuries with its romantic picture of Camelot, its honourable knights who fight tournaments and go in search of adventure, and the tragic death of Arthur in his last battle with his incestuous son, Mordred, is a sad, subtle, poetic legend, full of emotional nuance.
		Arthur and Mordred meet for a desperate parlay, after warning their armies to attack at the least sign of a sword being drawn.
	www.arthurian-legend.com /more-about/king-arthur-movie.php (2466 words)

	Skye's Bretons - Ch.2 : Arthur, Pt.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Arthur stories helped to define a new way of thinking in Europe, a code of chivalry, by which to live and conduct oneself with honour and valour.
		Arthur and his knights, the round table at which men of honour met as equals under a brlliant king to devote their lives to bettering themselves and their religious convictions were created, and nurtured, in the monumental amount of Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages.
		Arthur's historical origins are themselves clouded in mist by the volumes of myth and legend.
	members.aol.com /Skyewrites/breton2.html (1900 words)

	History in the Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The arguments about Arthur are fun, though, and I applaud the film for presenting a new and provocative take on his legend.
		The filmmakers made Arthur half Briton/half Roman, which is unproven but believable, considering the Romans ruled Britain for 350 years.
		And one candidate for the "real" Arthur is the 2nd century Lucius Artorius Castus, a Roman who led an elite group of Sarmatian cavalry.
	www.stfrancis.edu /historyinthemovies/kingarthur.htm (725 words)

	Britannia: King Arthur in the View of the Historians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"Although some historians doubt whether Arthur was a historical figure at all, it is reasonable to believe that a man of that name did exist and that he was the leader of Brythonic forces, perhaps on the pattern of the Dux Britanniarum of the previous century.
		Ambrosius appears in the pages of Gildas, but Arthur does not, and his activities and personality are almost impenetrability overlaid by medieval romance.
		In reality, King Arthur was no more than the requisite British hero whose appearance, appropriately armed and horsed on the boards of history, was necessitated by the fundamental misunderstanding of Gildas's text by less erudite Welsh scholars, centuries later, when the context in which Gildas wrote was indeed a "Dark Age".
	www.britannia.com /history/historan.html (1211 words)

	ARTHUR OF THE BRITONS \| A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW
		This excellent children's television series was a muddy & realistic version of the King Arthur legend which depicted Arthur (Oliver Tobias) as a struggling 6th century warlord, battling to unite the fragmented Celtic tribes into a cohesive fighting unit that could effectively oppose the Saxon invaders who were arriving in Britain in growing numbers.
		In this version, Arthur becomes leader of the Celts by releasing Excalibur, the sword in the stone, from the giant rock in which it is encased and lifting it above his head and thus proclaiming himself as the "true" King of the Britons.
		Oliver Tobias - Arthur, Chief of The Celts
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /arthurbritons.htm (399 words)

	EBK: Arthur the King
		He was of the line of Coel Hen (the Old) and probably ruled over a large Kingdom in the city of Ebrauc (York).
		Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman identify Arthur as Owain Ddantwyn (White-Tooth), a late 5th century Prince of the House of Cunedda (more specifically of Gwynedd and properly surnamed Danwyn).
		Baram Blackett and Alan Wilson have theorised that the legendary King Arthur was an amalgam of two historical characters: Anwn (supposedly aka Arthun), the British King who conquered Greece and Arthwys (alias Athrwys) the King of Glywysing and Gwent.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /arthur/kaking.html (1357 words)

	King Arthur of the Britons and Camelot
		Colchester would have been a frequent residence for Arthur but his was not a government that could rule from a single capital.
		According to the Welsh chronicler Nennius, writing in the late 8th and early 9th centuries, Arthur commanded a combined British force against the marauding Saxons, defeating them at Mount Badon in 518 and being mortally wounded at Camlan in 537.
		The Cambrian Annals record Arthur's death as 'the Battle of Camlann, where Arthur and Medraut fell' placing it some 21 years after Badon.
	www.camulos.com /arthur/arthur.htm (506 words)

	Arthur of the Britons - The Episode Guide Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Arthur fakes his own death to try and bring together the various Celtic chiefs, the better to fight the Saxons.
		Arthur mounts a campaign to free a group of enslaved villagers.
		Arthur kidnaps the daughter of the evil King Bavick in order to try and persuade him to stop his murderous ways.
	www.memorabletv.com /episodeguides/arthurofthebritons.htm (952 words)

	Arthur of the Britons TV Show - Arthur of the Britons Television Show - TV.com
		Arthur of the Britons was a drama series which aimed to throw light on the Dark Ages in Britain - an age in which Romanized Britons might have been led against invading Angles and Saxons by a Celtic warlord we now call King Arthur.
		Oliver Tobias gives us a virile and thoughtful Arthur, beset by problems at home and abroad, while Kai, his right hand man, was played by the late Michael Gothard.
		When a haughty Roman princess seeks refuge from her father in Arthur's camp, he could be in for big trouble with a new enemy.
	www.tv.com /arthur-of-the-britons/show/5381/summary.html (242 words)

	research page
		He was given a magical sword Excalibur from the Lady in the Lake, an otherworldly fairy that resides in a lake.
		Arthur created Camelot, his rich kingdom, and ruled the lands fairly and justly.
		King Arthur is a mythical creation invented by authors of great literature in the past.
	www.louisville.edu /~caoley01/arthur.html (430 words)

	Mount Badon: Arthur's Greatest Victory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Britons had been fighting them off as best they could, but the hordes were too strong, the desire for legitimacy too great.
		Nennius, who spoke so eloquently of Arthur's victories elsewhere, says Arthur was the commander of the British forces at Badon Hill, going on to say that he killed 940 "by his hand alone." This is probably a fancification, but the mention of Arthur's being in charge of the Britons is there.
		Geoffrey of Monmouth, writing in teh 12th century, says Arthur commanded the Britons at Badon Hill and that he killed 470 by himself.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ancient_british_history/53232 (484 words)

	"Arthur of the Britons" (1972) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Plot Summary: This series strips away the elaborate medieval view of Camelot, and presents Arthur as the chief of a small Celt tribe in Dark-Ages Britain...
		It contains 2 videos: 1 King Arthur, the Young Warlord 2 The Magic Sword (the 2nd one is just a silly movie).
		The Arthur video has only 3 episodes (96 mins on total) of the whole series.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0068041 (301 words)

	Clive Owen - Historical Links
		"Questing for the historical Arthur, King of Britons"
		Lucius Artorius Castus, commander of a detachment of Sarmatian conscripts stationed in Britain, led his troops to Gaul to quell a rebellion.
		The theory says that Castus' exploits in Gaul, at the head of a contingent of mounted troops, are the basis for later, similar traditions about "King Arthur," and, further, that the name "Artorius" became a title, or honorific, which was ascribed to a famous warrior in the fifth century.
	www.murphsplace.com /owen/arthur/history.html (158 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Arthur: King of the Britons by Daniel Mersey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		King Arthur is probably the most popular king in British history, and a man whose name is synonymous with courage, chivalry and romanticism.
		Arthur, King of the Britons; Arthur, the medieval legend; Arthur, the Celtic warlord; Arthur of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Arthur of the movies--would the real King Arthur please stand up?
		To understand why, it is important to consider what happened in the decades immediately before Arthur's supposed lifetime, and the centuries before them.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook31125.htm (395 words)

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