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Excalibur is the mythical sword of King Arthur that may possess magical powers or be associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain. Its first reliably datable appearance is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Regum Britanniae .
Arthur receiving the later tradition's sword Excalibur in N. C. Wyeth's illustration for The Boy's King Arthur (1922), a modern edition of Thomas Malory's 1485 Le Morte d'Arthur The development of the medieval Arthurian cycle and the character of the "Arthur of romance" culminated in Le Morte d'Arthur , Thomas Malory 's retelling of the entire ...
The Greene Knight, King Arthur and King Cornwall: A knight enchanted by Morgan le Fay in order to test Gawain Griflet† Girflet, Jaufre Jaufré: The son of Do (or Don), cousin to Sir Lucan and Sir Bedivere Gringolet (Welsh: Gwyn Calet, Ceincaled) Erec and Enide, c. 1170 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Gawain's horse Guinevak: Gwenhwyvach
Avalon (/ ˈ æ v ə l ɒ n /) [note 1] is a mythical island featured in the Arthurian legend.It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
Thus Arthur, "the once and future king", is an illegitimate child (though later legend, as found in Malory, emphasises that the conception occurred after Gorlois's death and that he was legitimated by Uther's subsequent marriage to Igraine [3]). This act of conception occurs the very night that Uther's troops dispatch Gorlois.
Pyle "Excalibur and the Sword" illustration from the 1903 edition of The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, 1903 Merlin is bewitched by an aspiring young sorceress named Vivien, a friend of Queen Morgana le Fay , who is the sister of King Arthur.
King Arthur of Camelot felled a giant. He pulled the magical Excalibur sword from rock. Despite these claims to fame, the legendary medieval king wasn’t real—but a 5,000-year-old tomb named ...
In Guy Ritchie's 2017 film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Djimon Hounsou plays Sir Bedivere, the leader of the resistance and a former knight of Uther. Bedivere features as one of the main characters of Lev Grossman's 2024 novel The Bright Sword, where he is Arthur's closest companion and secretly in love with Arthur.