Was King Arthur a legend or a real person and tell me?

Question

tell me the website + explain answer thnxs and DONT ASK QUESTIONS!!!

Answer 1

Hello,



He is a legend but a legend that was based on a fair number of military leaders in the 6th century.

The latest being that he was a Roman general that stayed on after the legions left Britain to help out the British celts against the Jutes and Saxons who were beginning to invade Britain.



http://www.timelessmyths.com/arthurian/arthur.html



Cheers,



Michael Kelly

Answer 2

Both, but you will be hard pressed to find an accurate history that is anything like complete. He may be based on a Welsh warlord named Aurthur or a Britannic warlord named Artur. The best way to tell if what you are reading is actually historical documentation versus legend is if there is mention of Merlin and Lancelot. Those names are credited to Sir Thomas Mallory in Le Morte d'Arthur (ISBN 9781934941409 for vol 1, 9781934941416 for vol 2: www.bn.com) That version is the legend, not the history. Some of the (better, not best) actual historic references we have found (Call it a hobby, lol) are in the book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology (ISBN: 9780681949973)



Good luck with your research, and ignore Mallory if you want truth - he romanticized the legends in a time when the people needed a hero and to believe the nobles followed a honorable code of conduct. Great stories, bad history.

Answer 3

I do not believe that King Arthur as described in legends existed. I do believe however that there as a historical character named Artos who was used as the basis for the legend. His name has been found engraved on several on several stones in Britain. He probably was a chieftain/military leader and is believed to have lived in/around the 6th century. There is also debate amongst scholar that there was an actual Merlin. But Merlin was not single person, "Merlin" would be a title passed down from one person to the another. Kind of like the pope, if you will. Make sense?

Answer 4

The Arthurian legend as we know it developed over hundreds of years but can be traced back to an unnamed British (NOT English) leader who for a time rallied the resistance to the Anglo-Saxon invasions that took place after the Roman withdrawal in the early 400s. Over the centuries that leader was given a name and some companions and a wife and more companions, who performed gallant adventures and eventually went in search of the Holy Grail. Yet at the end of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, which is the definitive treatment of the legend in English, all the additions of almost 1000 years have fallen away. The year is given as A. D. 532, and all of Arthur's companions have been killed or have left him, and he's left to die in the arms of one of the two companions first mentioned by name.



Websites? Try googling "legend of King Arthur." These look promising: http://www.legendofkingarthur.co.uk/who-was-king-arthur.htm

http://www.kingarthursknights.com/arthur/legendary.asp

Answer 5

I personally believe that the legends, though untrue, may have been based off of an actual person. He may have been an actual king, that did help defend Britain and such. He probably had a group of select knights that later would become known as the round table, and he would have had a bard or trickster of somesort who would become known as Merlin.

Websites?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur

http://www.britannia.com/history/h12.html

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~merrie/Arthur/

Answer 6

Most sources agree that King Arthur never really existed. He was just a legend.

Answer 7

He is a legend, but it is unknown if the legend has basis in truth.



Even if he was, the legends were clearly embellished (Merlin and the Lady of the Lake being two obvious impossibilities).

Answer 8

A legend... possibly based on a real individual or combination of people...

Answer 9

he existed but he didnt to all that mythical stuff like slaying dragons, pulling swords out of stone, excalibur, and probably the holy grail

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur