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The Arthur Story
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
and his version’s
political agenda
In his Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) published in
1136, Geoffrey of Monmouth provided the main outline for the story
of King Arthur.
He recounted
that after the fall of the Roman Empire and the departure of the Roman troops,
Britain was attacked by Picts from Scotland and Huns from mainland Europe until
a usurping British leader, Vortigern, invited the Anglo-Saxons (English) over
as mercenaries to defend Britain.
This policy
had disastrous results as the Saxons promptly invaded in their own right. When
the
legitimate
rulers of Britain, the brothers Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther, reasserted themselves,
Vortigern was killed and the Saxons temporarily
defeated. With
the aid of the magus Merlinus (who had prophesied Vortigern’s death)
Uther seduced
Igerna, wife of his ally Gorlois of
Tintagel, and
from that union Arthur was born. Aurelius and Uther were both later poisoned in
Saxon plots.
Arthur grew up
to be a great king, inflicting several defeats on the Saxons, at York, Celidon,
Winchester,
his company of knights and allies including his nephew Walgan, Bedwerus, Caius,
Peredur, and Urian. Arthur married a Roman noblewoman, Guanhamara, and later
set off on a campaign of European conquest.
While he was
away, Guanhamara and Modredus (brother to Walgan and nephew to Arthur)
plotted to
take the throne. Arthur returned, Guanhamara went into a convent while Arthur
pursued Modredus, defeating and killing him at the
battle of
Camblam in
In his Vita
Merlini (Life of Merlin) in 1151, Monmouth described Arthur’s resting place as
the Fortunate Isles or Isle of Apples (insula pomorum),
presided over
by Morgen le Fay and her nine sisters.
Monmouth’s
Historia served a political purpose, pandering to the Normans by vilifying the
Saxon English (whom the Normans had conquered in 1066), providing Britain with
a legendary national hero to match the French Charlemagne, and painting a
vision of a British empire extending far into Europe.
As a Welshman,
Monmouth also used the opportunity to glorify the Welsh (descendants of the
pre-Saxon Britons), moulding his new national
hero out of
earlier Welsh traditions, creating as he did so a cultural history of
than Beowulf
which was an epic from the
Anglo-Viking
warrior tradtion.
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