The story of King Arthur

 

King Arthur is a mythical figure associated with Camelot, which is due to a British warrior who lived from the fifth to the sixth century and who was in the invasion of the Saxons, King Arthur is a mythical figure dating back to the Middle Ages and was ruling the Kingdom of Camelot and those known as the Knights of the Round Table, but it is not known whether King Arthur's personality is real or not, although some believe that he may defeat there a military commander in the Roman army who was able to overcome the Saxon invasion in Fifth and sixth centuries, his legend has been published in many writers.

Little is known about the potential character who inspired the story of King Arthur, the heroic king who was a famous mythological and literary figure for some time. It has been suggested that the realist "Arthur" may have been a warrior/officer of Roman affiliation who commanded a British military force against the incoming Saxon forces during the fifth and sixth centuries AD. However, the Celtic monk Gildas wrote about the Saxon invasion in his work The Ruin and Conquest of Britain, citing the conflict at Badon Hills, and no warrior named Arthur is mentioned.

The story of King Arthur

So far, little is known about the legendary character from which the story of King Arthur came, he was a king with many heroics, and he was a well-known figure in mythological and literary writings and has taken fame for a while, and then some opinions emerged that the personality of King Arthur is realistic, perhaps he was a warrior or officer and has an affiliation to the Roman army, and also led a British military force against during their war against the next Saxon forces, which was between the fifth and sixth centuries AD, Later, however, the Celtic monk Gildas wrote about the Saxon War in his work The Ruin and Conquest of Britain, citing the conflict at Badon Hills but not mentioning any warrior named Arthur.

On the contrary, the poet Anirin of the sixth century wrote a collection of poems known as The Gododdin, and through these poems he spoke about Arthur the hero, but this work has been transmitted orally since its origins and has no written evidence, so it is impossible to ascertain whether Arthur is indeed part of this true story or not, and there was another poet whose name was Teliesin and he mentioned the courageous attitudes of Arthur in the events of His work too, there has also been a suggestion that he was generalized avoiding mentioning or referring to Arthur, but mentioning it was motivated by honoring him and a way of illustrating his heroism via the legend of a god in the form of a Celtic bear who had a similar name.

In the eighties of the previous century, Ninius wrote from Wales in British history, through his texts, which are considered a basic text of Arthur through which he recounted dozens of battles fought by the warrior Arthur, although it was logistically impossible for him to do this, and they were nevertheless, but the work of Ninius considers Arthur a strong and courageous figure worthy of praise, and later this was explained through Latin writings dating back to the twelfth century. For Jeffrey Monmouth, who told the story of Merlin's mystical character who was told in the story of Arthur's life story as the king or warrior gave Arthur a birth story and a complete path in a text widely read by many.

وكان نتيجة للاختلاط الثقافي في أوروبا والتأثيرات السياسية والخيال الذي كان للكتاب، تطورت قصة الملك آرثر لتصبح أسطورة كاملة وقصة مليئة بالاحداث المعقدة، وكان التركيز فيها على مملكة نبيلة تعرف باميلوت، ومن هم فرسان المائدة المستديرة وشخصة الملكة أسمها جينفير، التي كان لها علاقة مع الفارس لانسلوت، كما ضمت جوانب كثيرة للحكاية صراع الملك الغير منتهي مع ابن أخيه أو ابنه المسمى موردريد، وسعي الفرسان إلى الحصول على الكأس المقدسة.

كما كان توماس مالوري يعتبر هو أول من قدم رواية نثرية إنجليزية عن الملك آرثر في شكل أسطورة من خلال كتابه Le Morte D’Arthur، والتي نُشرت عام 1485، وبعد مرور قرون قد قام ألفريد تينيسون بنشر كتابه Idylls of the King في فترة النصف الأخير من القرن التاسع عشر، وكان يروي فيها قصة كاميلوت في صورة قصيدة ملحمية، وقد استمر تأليف وتفسير قصة الملك آرثر من قبل مجموعة مختلفة من الكتاب، بما في هذا حتى مؤلفو الأطفال مثل الكتاب القصص المصورة والروائيون ككتاب ماريون زيمر برادلي، التي ظهرت في عام 1982، وكذلك الأسطورة من منظور الشخصيات النسائية.

During the twentieth century, they also acted the life of King Arthur on stage and even on screen, as well as in the sixties, the legend found its way to fame on Broadway through the musical Camelot, which starred Richard Burton as Arthur, as well as another work starring Richard Harris, who starred in the 1967 film version as well, Robert Gault played the role of King, and the legend was made in another more serious and cruel work of Camelot in the film Excalibur in 1981 starring Helen Mirren as Morgana, who was the king's half-sister, as in the next millennium the work was done through Antoine Focoa, who played King Arthur in (2004), who has no distinctive plot and relies heavily on the idea that King Arthur, portrayed by Clive Owen, was a military commander who favored the Saxons.