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Sweet, Rosemary (2004), "Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-century Britain", Continuum, London, ISBN 1-85285-309-3 . British myths, legends and folktales have survived in all kinds of different contexts. Some – like the stories of Brutus or Hereward the Wake – are recorded in medieval chronicles that purport to be ‘actual’ history. Others were written down as entertaining tales in early manuscripts, and from there were put into book form once the printing press was invented. Still other stories were not written down until the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries, when people captured legends and folktales that were on the verge of dying out; many of our best sources for traditional stories are to be found in late eighteenth-century books of ballads or in Victorian folk-tale compilations. Archaeological evidence in the Low Countries and what was to become England shows early Anglo-Saxon migration to Great Britain reversed between 500 and 550, which concurs with Frankish chronicles. [8] John Davies notes this as consistent with the British victory at Badon Hill, attributed to Arthur by Nennius. [8] The monks of Glastonbury are also said to have discovered the grave of Arthur in 1180. [9]

Twain, Mark (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, New York: Webster, OCLC 11267671 . Loomis, Roger Sherman (1956), "The Arthurian Legend before 1139", in Loomis, Roger Sherman (ed.), Wales and the Arthurian Legend, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp.179–220, OCLC 2792376 . Padel, O. J. (2000), Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, ISBN 978-0-7083-1682-5 .Compared to the highly structured folktale, legend is comparatively amorphous, Helmut de Boor noted in 1928. [18] The narrative content of legend is in realistic mode, rather than the wry irony of folktale; [19] Wilhelm Heiske [20] remarked on the similarity of motifs in legend and folktale and concluded that, in spite of its realistic mode, legend is not more historical than folktale. Staines, D. (1996), "Tennyson, Alfred Lord", in Lacy, Norris J. (ed.), The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, New York: Garland, pp.446–449, ISBN 978-1-56865-432-4 . In contrast to these very ancient written sources, most of the world’s myths and legends have been preserved in oral versions, passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next. The recording of these tales began only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when explorers, scholars and anthropologists became interested in tradition, and were motivated to learn tribal languages and to record with pen and ink (and subsequently electronically) the vivid and unfamiliar tales they were told. MYTHS AND THE MODERN WORLD Please follow the guidelines in the Manual of Style and complete this article to the highest level of quality before continuing on other articles.

Encyclopædia Britannica (2006). "Fable". Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopædia Britannica. p.652. ISBN 9781593392932. Forest law was extremely unpopular, among all sections of society, but it achieved its purpose of retaining vast areas of semi-wild landscape over which the king and his court could hunt. Yet the very wildness of the land made it a perfect place for fugitives to hide out, and this is why areas such as Sherwood Forest and Barnsdale feature so prominently in outlaw legend. Ford, P. K. (1983), "On the Significance of some Arthurian Names in Welsh", Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies (30): 268–273 . Roach, William, ed. (1949–1983), The Continuations of the Old French 'Perceval' of Chrétien de Troyes, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, OCLC 67476613 . 5vols. The origins of Arthur's name have been subject to much debate throughout the ages. Some believe it to have derived from Lucius Artorius Castus, a second century Roman officer based in Britain.

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Bourgès, André-Yves, "Guillaume le Breton et l'hagiographie bretonne aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles", in: Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'Ouest, 1995, 102–1, pp. 35–45.; See Ashe 1985 for an attempt to use this vita as a historical source. Myths are usually understood as stories about gods or divine figures. They answer big questions such as: how was the world created? Where do humans come from? How did we learn to make fire, or to smith metal? What is the origin of the gods? The term ‘myth’ may be used more loosely to cover whole cycles of tales, like the stories of the Irish gods or the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, dealing with Welsh semi-divine characters. Stories that explain where certain peoples come from are known as ‘origin myths’; the most important and enduring origin myth for Britain is the legend of Brutus, a refugee from Troy who sailed to these shores and slew all the giants who were then the only inhabitants, giving his name to the British Isles.

Davies, John (1993). A history of Wales. Internet Archive. London: Allen Lane the Penguin Press. p.133. ISBN 978-0-7139-9098-0. Halsall, Guy (2013). Worlds of Arthur: Facts & Fictions of the Dark Ages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-870084-5. Thompson, R. H. (1996), "English, Arthurian Literature in (Modern)", in Lacy, Norris J. (ed.), The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, New York: Garland, pp.136–144, ISBN 978-1-56865-432-4 .Breeze, Andrew (September 2016). "Arthur's Battles and the Volcanic Winter of 536-7". Northern History. LIII (2): 161–172. doi: 10.1080/0078172x.2016.1195600. S2CID 164111727. Where he held power is a matter of conjecture. Some believe him to have controlled much of Wales, Cornwall and the west country; others claim that his power base was the north of England and southern Scotland. Gamerschlag, K. (1983), "Tom Thumb und König Arthur; oder: Der Däumling als Maßstab der Welt. Beobachtungen zu dreihundertfünfzig Jahren gemeinsamer Geschichte", Anglia (in German), 101 (101): 361–391, doi: 10.1515/angl.1983.1983.101.361, S2CID 163284336 . David, Brian, Review of Nicholas J. Higham, King Arthur: The Making of the Legend in Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 50:221-222 (2019) doi: 10.1353/cjm.2019.0021 ProjectMUSE 734087