Welcome to a website dedicated to understanding the early medieval Arthurian legend. This website looks at a number of topics, including whether or not King Arthur existed -- does he belong to history or legend? -- and what was the nature of the original British Arthurian legend, before it developed into the international Romance familiar from Tennyson and Malory. King Arthur as depicted on the Otranto Mosaic (Italy), dated 1163-65. He is shown riding a goat, carrying a club and fighting the giant cat-monster, Cath Palug. For further details of this fight, see 'Concepts of Arthur'.
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Concepts of Arthur
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