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Tracing the development of the King Arthur story in the late Middle Ages, this book explores Arthur's depiction as a wilderness figure, the descendant of the northern Romano-British hunter/warrior god. The earliest Arthur was a warrior but in the 11th century Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen , he is less a warrior and more a leader of a band of rogue heroes. The story of Arthur was popularized by Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Latin History of the Kings of Britain , and was translated into Middle English in Layamon's Brut and the later alliterative Alliterative Morte Arthure . Both owed much to the epic poem "Beowulf," which draws on the Anglo-Saxon fascination with the wilderness. The most famous Arthurian tale is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , in which the wilderness and themes from Beowulf play a leading role. Three Arthurian tales set in Inglewood Forest place Arthur and Gawain in a wilderness setting, and link Arthur to medieval Robin Hood tales.

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Author

Robin Melrose

Publisher

McFarland and Company, Inc. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476627588

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Folklore