These are the tales of Arthur, the Warlord, the King that Never Was, the Enemy of God and, may the living Christ and Bishop Sansum forgive me, the best man I ever knew. How have I wept for Arthur.
Three novels published in the 1990’s by Bernard Cornwell, focused on an “original” Arthur1.
Footnotes
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i.e. a Dark Ages one inspired by Historia Regum Britanniae and theoretically older works, and which tries to justify any additions from later canons. ↩