Short Story About King Arthur Essay, Research Paper

At the last time, I ve see a lot of books and movies about King Arthur and his knights of the round tables. And I ve find out that all stories an another version have.

At the twelth century a writer, he called Thomas Malory wrote down my favorite story and I try to tell you about this saga.

In the fith century, the King of Britain was Uther Pendragon. At one day he saw Lady Igraine and fell in Love with her. The Problem was, that Lady Igraine was the wife of the duke of Cornwall and they lifed in the big Tintagel Castel.

Bild: Tintagel Castle

Anmerk: You was there. Nobody could conquer this castle. The defence was to good.

Merlin, an old Celtic magician enchant Uthers in the duke of cornwall. The king went inside the castle and had a night with Lady Igraine, at the same time Uthers knights killed the duke. In this night Lady Igraine received a child.

The child born in Tintagel and his name was Arthur.

Arthur was brought up by Merlin and became king of Britain when he was fifteen. He proved his right to be king when he managed to pull a sword from a rock. He had to fight many lords, and with Merlin s help, he received the magic sword excalibur from the Lady of the Lake and defeated them. He married Guinevere and lived in a castle at Camelot. His knights sat at a round table so that they were all equal nobody was sitting at the head of the table.

Filmszene First Knight

Many of the stories in the legend are about the adventures of the knights, among them Lancelot, Perceval, Gawain, Marhalt, and Galahad.

They spent their time hunting wild pigs, having feasts, and singing ballads. They often had to kill dragons, giants or rescue beautiful princesses from bad lords. At all this time they behaved very correctly, loyality, with respect, honour, and compassion.

Arthur went to France and he left his kingdom in the hands of his nephew, Modred. As he was in France, Arthur learned that Modred had taken control of the kingdom and had captured Guinevere. He came back to England and fights in two big battles against Modred. At the end of the second battle, Arthur and Modred want to talk about peace.

They arranged Peace, but there was a snake and one of the knights lifted up his sword to kill the animal. That was a bad idea. Both armies thought that this are the beginning of a new battle and attack again.

All people died, all but Modred, Arthur and his knight, Sir Bedivere.

Modred

Arthur told Sir Bedivere, the last surviving knight, to throw Excalibur into the Water of a lake. He did this, and the sword was caught by a hand which came out of the water and then took the sword below the surface.

Arthur was then taken to the Isle of Avalon to get better. We understand that he did not die, but lives on and will return when his country needs him.

Filmszene: Excalibur, Ende

Bild Krieg

The Legend says that the following verse is written on his tomb:

Here lies Arthur, the once and future King of Britain.