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Arthurian - definition and meaning
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
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adjective pertaining to the legend of Arthur , king of the Britons , and his court at Camelot .
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Caradoc, not even the germ, of what makes the Arthurian Legend interesting to us, even of what we call the Arthurian Legend.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
Yeah, Stefan. #14 is more noticeable in Arthurian legend, though.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » If Arthurian legend had fan-fiction… 2009
So to the Welsh must be given the honor of having sown a seed from which has grown the wide-spreading tree we call the Arthurian Legend.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
Diana’s second husband is Ted, a don at Oxford and expert in Arthurian Studies.
A Lively Read « So Many Books 2005
So it is that an untitled Arthurian romance from the fourteenth century, in Middle English, has come to be known as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
A Successful Defiance Ricks, Christopher 2008
Scholars have waged war over the theories of transmission of the so-called Arthurian material during the centuries which elapsed between the time of the fabled chieftain's activity in 500 A.D. and his appearance as a great literary personage in the twelfth century.
Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914
The prose series of romances called Arthurian , owe their origin to: 1.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
It isn't recorded as 'Arthurian ' till the 16th century, but it remained in the Britosphere well after the Arthurian tradition was established, so local folklore had something to hang its hat on, so to speak.
A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009
The books vary in setting, with some possessing elements from different sub-genres such as Arthurian , Historical and Epic Fantasy.
Romance Fantasy Freedomstar 2007
The books vary in setting, with some possessing elements from different sub-genres such as Arthurian , Historical and Epic Fantasy.
Archive 2007-07-01 Freedomstar 2007
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