A boy gets into trouble at sea and is rescued by Arthur, once the High King of Britain. While the boy recovers, and his clothes dry, Arthur tells him his story, as well as those of Gawain, Percivale, Tristram and Iseult. Geoffrey of Monmouth (2007). Huber, Emily Rebekah (ed.). "Arthur from the Vita Merlini". d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot-project. The Camelot Project, University of Rochester . Retrieved 8 July 2014. History [ edit ] Southern Britain in c. 540, the time of Gildas. Constantine's likely kingdom of Dumnonia is in the southwest; the territory of the Damnonii is in the northwest. I have heard versions of all these tales before, so what I liked best was Bercelet, the deerhound that was part of Merlin, out of all the characters because he was new to me, and who doesn’t love the idea of a faithful companion who will never leave you. In 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.

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Vargas Díaz-Toledo, Aurelio (2006). "Os livros de cavalarias renascentistas nas histórias da literatura portuguesa" (PDF). Peninsula: Revista de Estudos Ibéricos (in Portuguese). 3: 233–247 . Retrieved 4 November 2014.

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Please don’t hate me but I really love Mordred, such a good antagonist, he wasn’t just a character that came out of no where and was against Arthur, we got to see him grow up and all that stuff, and I think that’s why he’s such a likeable character, yes he did bad things but the way he was also treated/rejected by his father made him be that, and the pressure from his mother to take over the kingdom he never really had his place anywhere and that lead him to a bad path but an understandable path in my opinion. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - Michael's books have been translated into many languages including Chinese, Bulgarian and Hungarian, Hebrew and Japanese. He travels all over the UK and abroad talking to people of all ages at literary festivals, telling his stories and encouraging them to tell theirs. Audio version of this review to follow on Reading in Bed Book review Podcast from readinginbed.bandcamp.com from 01 August 2021 * The Arthurian legend has many parallels with Ancient Egyptian legend. Osiris, the God of the 'not dead' takes Arthur's place. The most similar parts of the legends concern the death of their hero, Osiris being killed by his brother Set, then taken across the Nile by his sisters to a sacred place in the west to be healed and await the opportunity to return.

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Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks. Home > 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. Molchan, Greg (Spring 2014). "Anna and the King(s): Marriage Alliances, Ethnicity, and Succession in the Historia Regum Britanniae". Arthuriana. 21 (1): 25–48. doi: 10.1353/art.2014.0004. S2CID 162393121.

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Geoffrey of Monmouth includes Constantine in a section of his Historia Regum Britanniae adapted from Gildas. As he does throughout the work, Geoffrey alters his source material, recasting Gildas' reproved kings as successors, rather than contemporaries as in De Excidio. [13] In addition to Gildas, Geoffrey evidently knew the Dumnonian genealogy essentially as it appears in Geraint and Enid and similar sources. He further adds a number of other details not found in earlier sources, identifying Constantine as a son of Cador, a Cornish ruler known in Welsh tradition as Cadwy mab Geraint. Notably, Geoffrey's Constantine is King Arthur's kinsman and succeeds him as King of the Britons. [14] Norris J. Lacy and Geoffrey Ashe suggest Geoffrey made this Arthurian connection based on an existing tradition locating Arthur's birthplace in southwest Britain. [15] However, noting that the earliest references place Arthur in northern Britain rather than the southwest, Rachel Bromwich considers the connection an arbitrary invention by Geoffrey, perhaps suggested by his earlier inventions of familial ties between Arthur and Constantine the Great and the usurper Constantine III. [16] Geoffrey calls Constantine Arthur's cognatus, or blood relative, but does not specify the exact relation, causing much confusion for later writers. [17] Constantine ( / ˈ k ɒ n s t ən t iː n/, Welsh: Cystennin, fl. 520–523) was a 6th-century king of Dumnonia in sub-Roman Britain, who was remembered in later British tradition as a legendary King of Britain. The only contemporary information about him comes from Gildas, who castigated him for various sins, including the murder of two "royal youths" inside a church. The historical Constantine is also known from the genealogies of the Dumnonian kings, and possibly inspired the tradition of Saint Constantine, a king-turned-monk venerated in Southwest Britain and elsewhere. As King Arthur stories go, this was probably the worst I've ever read. The narrative framing was super weird- because we're hearing the story from Arthur, who's recounting the events thousands of years later to a kid in a cave, it's like we're held at arm's length from the events and can't feel as though we're really there. I was more invested in the Kid's story at the very beginning than in anything that came out of Arthur's mouth. 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." Moll, Richard James (2003). Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802037224.

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Wasyliw, Patricia Healy (2008). Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe. Peter Lang. ISBN 9780820427645. It certainly however didn’t add anything new to the story, and despite being great for children, I thought the narrative was somewhat flat throughout the book in places and I was disappointed with Guinevere, instead much preferring the mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley which looks at the myths through the eyes of the female characters (which is essential reading).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. Hoburg, Tom (1992). "In Her Own Right: The Guenevere of Parke Godwin". In Slocum, Sally K. (ed.). Popular Arthurian Traditions. Bowling Green State University Popular Press. pp.68–79. ISBN 0879725621. Morris, Rosemary (1982). The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 0815328656 . Retrieved 26 February 2014. Marooned on a sandbank, a boy faces certain death. With the sea closing in and the current about to drag him to a watery grave, his final wish is to see heaven. Waking in a strange bed, the boy meets an old man. It is Arthur, the warrior king of legend, and from his lips the boy hears of Camelot, chivalry, magic, evil and betrayal. About This Edition ISBN: LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.