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King Arthur

Legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries

"Arthur Pendragon" redirects here. For other uses, see Arthur Pendragon (disambiguation) and King Arthur (disambiguation).

King Arthur (Welsh: Brenin Arthur, Cornish: Arthur Gernow, Breton: Roue Arzhur, French: Roi Arthur), according to legends, was a king of Britain. He is a folk hero and a central figure in the medieval literary tradition known as the Matter of Britain.

In Welsh sources, Arthur is portrayed as a leader of the post-Roman Britons in battles against the Anglo-Saxons in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. He first appears in two early medieval historical sources, the Annales Cambriae and the Historia Brittonum, but these date to 300 years after he is supposed to have lived, and most historians who study the period do not consider him a historical figure.^[2][3] His name also occurs in early Welsh poetic sources such as Y Gododdin.^[4][5][6] The character developed through Welsh mythology, appearing either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh otherworld Annwn.^[7]

The legendary Arthur developed as

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Rough Castle Roman Fort: Site of Camelot?

 

King Arthur probably lived, if he lived at all, in the century either side of the year 500. In popular legend he was a Romano-British military leader who fought against Anglo-Saxon invaders; met with his knights around a round table at a place called Camelot; proved his worth by pulling a sword from a stone; and invented chivalry. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.

Let's start with the obvious question: why does a web site about Scotland carry a biography of a possibly mythical person who everyone knows was associated with Tintagel in Cornwall? The answer is that there are scholars who believe that the story of King Arthur, and just possibly the real man or men whose lives formed the basis of the story, originated in what is now Scotland. To be fair, many others believe that King Arthur was British, or Welsh, or Roman. Some even believe that he was Persian: that he was the leader of a Roman auxiliary cavalry unit raised in Samaria which went freelance and established a power base in northern Britain after the withdrawal of the Empire from these islands.

Historical evidence for the real Arthur is very