Arthurian Legend

If the historical Arthur was just a Dark Age warlord, as seems likely, how did the complex legends of Camelot and the Grail develop? In his search for the earliest references to Arthur’s family and to his most famous knights, Paul White came across some extraordinary suggestions very far from the legend as we know it – that Arthur was a cruel tyrant who killed his own son, that a cunning workman made a portable round table the size of a cricket ground, that the Holy Grail was a meteorite, and that Lancelot and Gawain were really both Celtic gods. Add to this a bevy of mistresses and some magic-working priestesses. This book is an entertaining (and irreverent) look at both the ancient Welsh, Latin, French and English texts and more recent Arthurian scholarship.