Tell a Secret,Guess, or Fact

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i'm a fool?)

^ Baka

i did not call you a fool i just said Baka not towards anyone but just because.

*points at self* i'm confused ^ is not as annoying as i thought

^ not as emo as i thought

Baka

would you like to hear a story.

^is interesting

thank you btw and sure

My legend begain in the 12th century...

^smartass

your seriously not going to tell a whole story are you?

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let me finish

^smartass

then finish

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it is rude to inerupt

The story about Arthur's birth (Uther's disguise as her husband to seduce Igraine) remained mostly unchanged (See Uther for the story of Uther and Igraine). However, there are differences between Geoffrey's version and those later authors.

What had remain unchanged was the following: Merlin used his power to transform Uther to look like Igraine's husband, Gorlois (Hoel) the Duke of Cornwall (or Tintagel), in return for the child that Uther and Igraine would have. While Uther coupled with Igraine at Tintagel, her husband was killed in battle at another castle.



What had changed was that when Arthur was born, Uther had no choice but to give the infant (Arthur) to Merlin, the price of helping the king to sleep with Igraine. Once the infant was born, Merlin took Arthur from the mother.

Merlin left Arthur with his new foster-father, Sir Anton (according to Robert de Boron's Merlin; in Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, the foster father was called Sir Ector). Anton (Ector) raised Arthur with his own son, known later as Sir Kay.

According to Geoffrey, Arthur had a sister named Anna. Here, Arthur has a half-sister named Morgawse (ie. daughter of Gorlois and Igraine), who later married King Lot of Orkney, and was the mother of Gawain. Arthur had another two half-sisters who were named Elaine, who married Nentres of Garlot and became the mother of Galeshin; and of Morgan le Fay, the sorceress, who married Urien and became the mother of the hero Yvain (Owain).

Arthur would not meet his mother and sisters until some time after he had became king.

again ^smartass

and i'm not interupting thank you very much

^ Fool

The story is not over

^ Baka

i'm not a fool

^ Baka

After Uther's death, many British nobles tried to succeed their king. Merlin told these nobles that the man who draws the magic sword out of the stone, would be king of Logres (Britain).

Only Arthur was able to draw the sword from the stone. Many people, particularly the lords and kings refused to swear fealty to a boy who was not even sixteen. They decided to rebel then serve the boy king.

In the first battle, Merlin had advised the young king not to draw Excalibur until he was on the point of defeat. The battle favoured his enemies; he saw that they had surrounded him. It was at this point that Arthur drew Excalibur from his sheath. The light reflected from the blade of his magical sword confounded his enemies. The tide of the battle then turned in his favour. At the end of the day, the enemy kings' armies were routed.



(The sword was called Excalibur, which means, "cut steel". Early tradition (by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace and Layamon), called the sword Caliburn; a magical sword from Avalon. The tale of Arthur drawing the sword out of the rock first appeared in Robert de Boron's French verse tale, called Merlin. But the English author, named Sir Thomas Malory (and in the French Suite du Merlin (Prose Merlin), c. 1240), wrote that the sword that Arthur had pulled out of stone was not Excalibur; in fact, Arthur broke his first sword in the fight against King Pellinor. Shortly after, Arthur then received a new sword from the Lady of the Lake, which was explicitly called Excalibur. Malory distinguished the sword Arthur pulled out of a rock from the sword he received from the Lady of the Lake, and it was the second sword that was the true Excalibur.)



Arthur had to fight a series of wars against the British nobles who opposed to his rule. Among the eleven British kings that Arthur fought against was King Lot of Orkney, his brother-in-law. (This contrast with Arthur's war against the Saxon invaders in the early tradition. Also in the early tradition, King Lot was ally of Arthur, not his enemy).

According to the Vulgate Cycle, Suite du Merlin and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, King Ban of Benwick and his brother King Bors of Gaunes, aided Arthur in the war against the eleven kings [Book I of Morte d'Arthur, chapters 9-17]. In return that Arthur helped them with their war against Claudas, king of the Waste Lands. King Ban became the father of Lancelot and Hector, while King Bors was the father of Bors, who was one of the Grail heroes, and Lionel.

After the first battle against the eleven kings, Arthur met Lionors, daughter of Earl Sanam. Arthur fell in love with the damsel and slept with Lionors, where she bore a son. According to Malory [Book I, chapter 17], Arthur became the father of Borre. (Chretien de Troyes and the Vulgate Cycle called his son Loholt or Lohot, by a damsel named Lisanor).

These three kings also rescue King Leodegan of Camelide (or Leodegrance of Camelerd), and defeated King Rience of North Wales. Here, Arthur met Leodegan's beautiful daughter, Guinevere, for the first time [Malory's Book I, chapter 18].

The rebel kings, including King Lot, decided to make peace with Arthur and pay homage to Arthur.

^annoying

your really not going to tell the full story are you?

its a shame when a full story is never told

^ is a Puppet
You should send the story as a PM.

^Is funny as hell

^ is my soul mate.

^is in love with me


You do know that i'm with some one on here right i told you about him.

^ likes white

^ misspelled 'mightier'

^is a grammar nazi

^ tortures babies with socks

^ is offline.

^has an obsession with jolly ranchers

^ is strange

(oh..while i'm here Exaclibur why the hell did you send the story as a PM? i didn't want the full story -_-)

@Excalibur the sword in the stone and excalibur were two different swords...
The sword from the stone broke in a battle.

^is a sword guru?

Not sword "guru" i study weapons and folklore around them when I get bored out my head.