Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Arthur has no birth certificate, no contemporary records, and not a single line written in the years he is supposed to have lived. The tradition begins in the chaos of post-Roman Britain: political collapse, migration, war. By the 5th century, Roman administration no longer governs the island. Its people, the Britons, face mounting pressure from groups arriving from the continent, whom later sources call Saxons, Angles and Jutes.
Local rulers and war leaders step in to defend territory once protected by Rome. But almost nothing is written down as it happens. Whoever eventually becomes Arthur has to be pieced together from scraps, written centuries later by people already turning memory into legend.
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- 2Gildas and the Battle of Badon
- 3Ambrosius, the ideal candidate
- 4Arthur appears, three centuries later
- 5A king to legitimize the Normans
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