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If I had been on that beach at the beginning, I would have grabbed the nameless boy and been like "Hey, don't follow that bell sound! There's a long-winded, self-centered old man waiting for you who claims to be the high king of Britain but is actually just a jerk, and he'll talk your ear off and bore us all if he finds you." In Geoffrey, Arthur passes his crown to his relative Constantine after being mortally wounded by the traitor Mordred in the Battle of Camlann. Geoffrey identifies Gildas' "royal youths" as Mordred's two sons, who, along with their Saxon allies, continue their father's insurrection after his death. After "many battles" Constantine routs the rebels, and Mordred's sons flee to London and Winchester, where they hide in a church and a friary, respectively. Constantine hunts them down and executes them before the altars of their sanctuaries. Divine retribution for this transgression comes three years later when Constantine is killed by his nephew Aurelius Conanus (Gildas' Aurelius Caninus), precipitating a civil war. He is buried at Stonehenge alongside other kings of Britain. [18] The Annales Cambriae ( Welsh Annals) and the Annals of Ulster record the conversion of a certain Constantine; these may be a reference to the Cornish saint and therefore to the historical figure. [9] Several subsequent religious texts refer to Constantine, generally associating him with Cornwall, often specifically as its king. The Life of Saint David says that Constantine, King of Cornwall, gave up his crown and joined Saint David's monastery at Menevia. The Vitae Petroci includes an episode in which Saint Petroc protects a stag being hunted by a wealthy man named Constantine, who eventually converts and becomes a monk. Here Constantine is not said to be king, but a 12th-century text referring to this story, the Miracula, specifically names him as such, further adding that upon his conversion he gave Petroc an ivory horn that became one of the saint's chief relics. [10] A number of other traditions attested across Britain describe saints or kings named Constantine, suggesting a confusion and conflation of various figures. [11]

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of Monmouth and the chronicle tradition Toggle Geoffrey of Monmouth and the chronicle tradition subsection The book depicts TWO one-night-stands that result in a surprise pregnancy -- it is described subtly enough that young children won't understand what was going on. Wright, Neil (1982). "Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gildas". In Barber, Richard (ed.). Arthurian Literature. Vol.II. Boydell & Brewer. pp.1–40. ISSN 0261-9946. I had the best time reading this story and the characters were truly incredible! I truly adored Gawain and Arthur's faithful dog, Bercelet the mostIn this book I loved Lancelot… yeah I know he wasn’t the best and he did bad things in the book, but still I loved how his story was beautiful but still had a dark side, I really loved how we felt that he was a human, he did good things but also did bad choices just like us humans. And that’s why Lancelot is my favourite character. Finazzi-Agrò, Ettore (1978). A novelística portuguesa do século XVI (in Portuguese). Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa. pp.45–48. ASIN B000ZQ4P8M. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2014 . Retrieved 4 November 2014. Dichmann, Mary E. (1964). "The Tale of King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius". In Lumiansky, R. M. (ed.). Malory's Originality: A Critical Study of Le Morte Darthur. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp.67–90. ISBN 0801804035. Whitaker, Muriel (1984). Arthur's Kingdom of Adventure: The World of Malory's Morte Darthur. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 0859911659. Main article: Constantine (British saint) Saint Constantine's Church in Constantine, Cornwall, perhaps connected to the historical king of Dumnonia

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This was a really wonderful middle grade retelling that included a nameless boy who gets lost and has a run-in with none other than King Arthur himself.... The historical Constantine of Dumnonia may have influenced later traditions, known in Southwestern Britain as well as in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, about a Saint Constantine who is usually said to have been a king who gave up his crown to become a monk. The Cornish and Welsh traditions especially may have been influenced by Gildas, in particular his adjuration for Constantine to repent; the belief may have been that the reproach eventually worked. [9]

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DNF but I did make it almost all the way through because I was on a 2 hour ferry crossing and had nothing else to do.

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Bromwich, pp. 318–319, discusses the confusion of some of these various Constantines. Notable in the context of "Saint" Constantine is Custennin Vendigeit (The Blessed), the name for the historical usurper Constantine III in the Welsh Triads. So what about the part of the legend that says he didn’t actually die, but went into extended hibernation? If Arthur did go into a long sleep, he and a gathering of loyal knights are supposed to have done so beneath Blencathra, waiting for their next call to arms. Having been fatally wounded at Camlann, Arthur asked to be taken to a nearby shore where a boat would be waiting to take him to Avalon - in this case Blencathra.

Constantine does not figure strongly in the Arthurian romance traditions or prose cycles. He is absent from the French Vulgate and Post-Vulgate Cycles, in which Lancelot and his kin kill off Mordred's sons, and no successor to Arthur appears. [24] [25] Some scholars find this omission significant. Rosemary Morris suggests these versions downplay the issue of a designated heir to Arthur to heighten the stakes of Mordred's usurpation and to magnify Lancelot's role in the story. [24] Richard Trachsler writes that the exclusion of an heir adds a sense of finality to the Arthurian story after Arthur's death. [25] The abbey had just been laid low by a huge fire and the cost of repairing and running the abbey was crippling. The discovery of Arthur’s grave gave the monks a much-needed financial boost - in fact by the end of the Middle Ages, Glastonbury was the richest abbey in Britain - but whether this was sheer good timing or a Medieval conspiracy theory is up to you. Au courant de ma jeunesse, j'ai parcouru la bibliothèque municipale de ma ville en long et en large, lisant tout ce que je pouvais sur les légendes arthuriennes. Je les aimais vraiment beaucoup. Je regardais aussi beaucoup les émissions de télévision et les films qui y étaient reliés. Je viens tout juste de terminer la série de The School for Good and Evil, et je dois dire que je n'avais pas vraiment aimé la version des faits de cette histoire. Alors, j'ai vraiment apprécié le fait que je pouvais entendre plusieurs personnages dont les noms me sont très familiers malgré le temps passé depuis la dernière (vraie) légende arthurienne que j'ai lue.

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Dans une grotte perdue dans le brouillard, un garçon rencontre un vieil homme et son chien. L’histoire qu’il va entendre est celle de l’une des plus grandes légendes qui existent.This one was somewhat different as it focuses on the legend of King Arthur when a young boy stumbles into a cave and meets Arthur who sits down and tells him his story etc and the child instead of being the narrator is the vehicle for him to tell us the story. The two major centers for the cultus of Saint Constantine were the church in Constantine Parish and the Chapel of Saint Constantine in St Merryn Parish (now Constantine Bay), both in Cornwall. The former was established by at least the 11th century, as it is mentioned in Rhygyfarch's 11th-century Life of Saint David. At this time it may have supported a clerical community, but in later centuries it was simply a parish church. The Chapel at Constantine Bay had a holy well, and was the center of its own sub-parish. [9]