Sally: No one actually knows if King Arthur ever really existed. Stories have been told about him for over a thousand years, but we don't know if he ever really lived, or if there really were any ...

In circa 830, the Welsh monk Nennius completed his Historia Britonum, a compilation of historical events adapted from various ...

Others believe that the name has Welsh origins. The fifth century Welsh word art means 'bear'. One theory is that art and ur, ...

Where Arthur had once been considered a real historical figure in the Middle Ages, his story was eventually dismissed as nonsense with no basis in fact, and the legend lost its power to enthral. While ...

The text refers to Arthur as a "leader of battles" rather than a king. Indeed, Nennius' work became the source of a number of Arthurian tales which were built upon by successive authors ...

A site long steeped in the legend of King Arthur has been revealed to predate those myths by thousands of years. King ...

King Arthur’s Country (Pen & Sword Books Ltd, £25, available from Pen & Sword, Amazon and bookshops) comes from St ...

To this day, approximately 200 manuscripts remain in existence. Then, with the marriage of Henry II of England to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the stories of Arthur began to bloom in the courts of France and ...

As early as the 13th century, people have linked the tomb to the mythical King Arthur, the ruler of the fictitious kingdom of Camelot. According to legend, King Arthur battled a giant in a duel at ...