Is there any truth to the King Arthur legends? - Alan Lupack

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King Arthur has risen again and again in our collective imagination, along with his retinue of knights, Guinevere, the Round Table, Camelot, and of course Excalibur. But where do these stories come from, and is there any truth to them? Alan Lupack traces the evolution of King Arthur.
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@TEDEd 6 лет назад

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@arawn1061 6 лет назад

No mention of Ambrosius Aurelianus?

@dishantgupta1290 6 лет назад

I thought caliburn was sword in the Stone and Excalibur the sword bestowed by the lady of the lake to long Arthur??

@felixlee9645 6 лет назад

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@derp3607 6 лет назад

Ted please do Giordano Bruno Please

@mse5842 6 лет назад

King Arthur rode on his steed with Patsy along with the Knights of the Round table to seek the Holy Grail in which God has cast the quest upon. They travelled forth upon the Britons to seek the holy grail. Eventually they came upon Strange French Person who wouldnt give the Holy Grail to whom God has chosen. Upon his dissapointed, he and his knights went along their seperate ways until they met up again to fight the Strange French person. Through the hills, Tim the sorcerer, the Killer Bunny and the Cave of (I cant spell) they lost most knights but finally found the location of the holy Grail. King Arthur rallied up an entire Army of English soldiers to attack Strange French Person to retrieve the Holy Grail to God's chosen people. So they attacked the French fortress only to be stopped by the Police Department who accused them of murder and conphiscated all their weapons and troops. In the end, it would be Strange French Person who would keep the Holy Grail for him and his taunt loving friends for all time to come.

@sithuaung2041 6 лет назад

King athur wanted to search the holy grail because it gave immortality. We will never know if king arthur existed but in a way, he did achieve immortality. We are still talking about him after all these years.

@snaketooth0943 6 лет назад

That's a really good point

@rodigoduterte9192 6 лет назад

ripper 1241 so true, some of people would literary gave their children's name "Arthur" to commemorate him

@idkwayta1722 6 лет назад

The holy grail was added by the poet, author

@jackharper4274 6 лет назад

You mean her?

@janmichaelcjamisola 6 лет назад

Run away!

@fatimah3017 5 лет назад

*in a land of myth and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young man, his name, MERLIN*

@thundertaker14 5 лет назад

I was just about to comment that xD

@snowwhite8143 4 года назад

fatimah YES THANK YOU

@OSDisco 4 года назад

What's it from?

@iceblazer8256 4 года назад

Garden of Avalon

@CorvetteEnthusiast 4 года назад

YES

@schizoidboy 4 года назад

This sure gives an example of how far fan-fiction can go. The story got started by someone, possibly based on someone real and just became something that had a life of its own because people kept on adding to it.

@phantasosxgames8488 4 года назад

yes , and half of it is ironically based on Charlesmagne Legends.

@RadityaNugraheni2405 4 года назад

I think so! 1000 years old fan-fiction, nothing can beat that.

@sadiewest7021 3 года назад

@@phantasosxgames8488 if you look though a lot of legends have similarities. If you look at the hero’s story in different cultures for example, you’ll see nearly the same cycle in pretty much all of them.

@ye3053 3 года назад

@@RadityaNugraheni2405 its kinds like how people portray sherlock Holmes and add little bits to his background.

@kellydalstok8900 3 года назад

That’s how a nobody in first century Israel grew out to become the son of a god.

@Norsketrutt 6 лет назад

My god his voice is soothing and chill!

@DJ-ei4ox 6 лет назад

Ikr!

@kallebuchholz2156 6 лет назад

I scrolled down, to read, if somebody already wrote that. It haven’t take long. Lol.

@Norsketrutt 6 лет назад

Bobby Derran I think they simply are on rotation, not gone for good :)

@kimyongin1987 6 лет назад

I'm tired after all of my daily hassles, but the narrator's voice is so healing and soothing. It's so relaxing 😆

@JosephDeLosSantos-t3m 6 лет назад

Great accent too

@glamgirl854 3 года назад

Imagine being such an amazing author that your stories literally makes the world question whether they're fact or fiction, that's legendary status

@lohithreddy6629 2 года назад

true

@shafqatishan437 2 года назад

I don't think king Arthur is just a made up story or belongs to one author. He definitely existed but most of the legends are exaggerated and changed.

@saurabhsolanki3437 2 года назад

@@shafqatishan437 you just proved his point😁

@badkate1711 2 года назад

@@saurabhsolanki3437 no pay attention 🤦

@Zqppy 2 года назад

There are literal Records of Multiple King Arthurs from Wales

@nothanks1239 Год назад

I always figured it was a myth. But, I live in Cornwall, not far from the ruins of 'camelot' nor far from the area he supposedly acquired excalibre. And despite knowing it's not real, it still brings so much magic and wonder to the world.

@nothanks1239 Год назад

@@RavenclawLad I think that's exactly it. Always be a child part of me that just wants some magic in life 😆 Scotland is a beautiful place though.

@VITAS874 Год назад

Do you find sword ? 😉

@nothanks1239 Год назад

@@VITAS874 I no find sword 😆

@renascitur7051 Год назад

@@nothanks1239 ROFL I NO FIND SWORD

@lupohutchington269 Год назад

Well technically it could exist in a parallel dimensions or universe. Also it could be real but extremely exaggerated. Like the legend of great men.

@TheZanzaroni 6 лет назад

Can you imagine how simple "but he was no Arthur" could have been to the guy writing it, but how important it must be to the one who discovered it years later?

@neutronalchemist3241 2 года назад

The reference to Arthur in the Gododdin is probably a later addition (the oldest copy we have is of the 13th century), of the same time of the Historia Brittonum (not to be mistaken with the later Historia Regum Britanniae), where there is the first datable reference (around 828 AD) of Arthur as a warlord that lived in 6th century and won many battles against the Saxons. Other Welsh fairy tales had been embellished the same way, with the main characer being said to be related to Arthur in some way.

@MTC008 Год назад

@@neutronalchemist3241if arthur was ever a real person he would had been likely a chieftain warlord of a tribe group in england rather than being a king of a monarchy kingdom

@cymro6537 2 месяца назад

Why is 'Arthur' depicted wearing a St George's (English)flag tabard ? Had he existed ,he was a Romano Briton who would've been fighting the Anglo-Saxons ( Ancestors of the English)

@AlexBallMusic 6 лет назад

Definitely all true, I've seen documentary footage of the knights who say "ni".

@Wilson-qf9sg 6 лет назад

Do they demand a shrubbery?

@AlexBallMusic 6 лет назад

One that looks nice. And not too expensive.

@timothyalvis6654 6 лет назад

Alex Ball As long as they don't say that dreaded word.

@stripe143yellow9 6 лет назад

I liked the part with the holy hand grenade

@Brandonhayhew 6 лет назад

I liked the part that peasant say that "strange womans laying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis form a system of government? "

@wijcik 4 года назад

Could "Arthur" be a title that we have turned into a name? Just a thought.

@Thermopylae66 4 года назад

Very likely.

@jacobandrews2663 4 года назад

@@Thermopylae66 Makes me think of how "Jarl" or "Earl" are names in their own right today. So i would say that is a very smart observation.

@ZecaPinto1 4 года назад

Arthur means bear

@Thermopylae66 4 года назад

@@ZecaPinto1 really?? In what language?

@ZecaPinto1 4 года назад

@@Thermopylae66 in the language of its origin. Welsh

@emma321xx 5 лет назад

I'm from Monmouth, and Caerleon is very near my home. We used to go on school trips to see the Roman amphitheatre that is there and I remember learning all about Arthur and being so captivated by the story. A lot of Welsh history comes from story telling and I love how with each new telling it gets embellished, adding magic, dragons, the sword and then it's passed on through generations and we can still enjoy it today. I like to think that there is truth in the roots of stories, and that there was indeed a man called Arthur who fought battles near the place where I grew up.

@marianafernandeznajle2729 5 лет назад

I wish I could go and visit this place!

@zoetropo1 4 года назад

Alan Rufus visited Monmouth around when the Priory was founded. Geoffrey, Gaimar and Wace all admired Alan for his great feats of arms. Alan was a noble Breton descended in male-line from a 9th century salt merchant and courtier with a Welsh name, Ridoredh of Gwened.

@downinthevalley9757 3 года назад

OK not really related but this comment is beautifully written, like this was poetry

@ahbabmuttaki1856 3 года назад

That's my point. The people at that time knew about Arthur but there just wasn't enough paper record. It was passed as oral since they didn't knew how to write.

@pathumus8093 3 года назад

I'm a direct descendent from Bleddyn. Whom you may know. The name is much associated with early Welsh royalty, Bleddyn ap Cynfyn being an 11th Century prince in Gwynedd (North Wales), and Bleddyn Fardd, who flourished circa 1268, was one of the princes' poets. It is recorded that "At the Survey (Domesday Book, 1086), Alan, son of Flaald, obtained the manor and castle of Oswaldstrey (Oswestry) in Shropshire, which belonged to Meredith ap Blethyn, a Welshman or Briton, by gift from William the Conqueror". Arthur was a real man, a real king. Of course over the years the story has been elaborated upon.

@ArnoldTeras 6 лет назад

Sigh...if only we but had a time machine. So many stories and ancient secrets could be ours to unravel and behold.

@solus2074 5 лет назад

And so that we will know the last words of Einstein

@jonathankeen8836 5 лет назад

And the secrets of the library of alexandria

@grimchee3892 5 лет назад

*And to be convicted as witches and die* _I’m kidding 😅_

@zoetropo1 5 лет назад

We have parchments.

@gonzalesmartin1910 5 лет назад

Your Right Maybe we NEED IT!

@FunFilmFare 4 года назад

So the Arthurian legends were just one big fanfiction collab !

@valhatan3907 3 года назад

Yes it is, 😂 I've spend time researching about *Arthurian "Legend"* just to find out half of the characters in it were fictional. Or rather was real, but adapted as fictional.

@yohansanchitha1018 3 года назад

@@valhatan3907 so was there no Arthur no merlin just fictional come on man

@ahbabmuttaki1856 3 года назад

I mean its impossible to figure out. Maybe there were original records of Arthur's and his companions existing and the sword and the wizard could've been just a metaphorical meaning. Maybe the celts at that time knew this coz their ancestors told them,but there were no official records. We can't know for sure.

@bens.8787 3 года назад

@@valhatan3907 Typing questions in Google and reading Wikipedia don't equal a valid research at the slightest. Publish your paper instead of claiming you've done an actual research.

@valhatan3907 3 года назад

@@bens.8787 LOL When I and other people say "doing research" they are not necessarily always doing it to publish a paper, sir. Maybe they're doing "research" for fun, or just to write a novel that include the said topic. Then why they need to publish a paper for doing that? It seems you didn't think about any of those possibilities don't you.

@Ra-hu3sg 6 лет назад

You know Arthur is legendary when you see Hollywood movies showing 400CE England as a glorious place.

@feynstein1004 6 лет назад

Yeah I don't think the Transformers franchise is a good place to reference...anything.

@Ra-hu3sg 6 лет назад

Feynstein 100 I think at the time some other arthurian-themed movie was also out wherein they wore medieval knight armor.

@feynstein1004 6 лет назад

+Ra Ahaha my bad, mate. I thought you were talking about Transformers: The Last Knight.

@GameyRaccoon 6 лет назад

Please just say AD. Like it or not that's what our calendar is based on. If it wasn't for Christianity, western civilization wouldn't exist.

@donttrytokillme1231 5 лет назад

@@GameyRaccoon The debate between bc/ad and bce/ce is pretty much pointless. Just let people call it what they want.

@raffyandaindrajaya5171 6 лет назад

I love the narrator voice ever since the Macbeth video

@PTNLemay 6 лет назад

What exactly is his accent?

@XXRolando2008 6 лет назад

bretesh

@mattdavies8272 6 лет назад

northern welsh

@jvaldez97 6 лет назад

It sounded to me like a British/Indian hybrid

@jacqueskibu 6 лет назад

SoulAsasin Jr. it’s definitely Welsh

@沈啍 3 года назад

Poet in 2021: “Dickbutt.” Historians in 3032: “Though records of this era are incomplete due to the nuclear war that followed, it is widely believed that Dickus Buttockus, king of America in the early 21st century, sent his knight sir Dancelot out on a quest for the Holy Grill.”

@sheetaldeshpande8061 2 года назад

😂

@hunterofdarkness8329 2 года назад

It was said that the grill was a powerful artifact which can grill any type of meat and gives it a juicy flavor with a strong aroma

@paulag2172 2 года назад

Awesome 😎

@SuAva 2 года назад

Sir Dancelot and the Holy Grill xD

@scarlyt1017 2 года назад

Lmfaooo

@settrasurfs1780 6 лет назад

In the comments 50% Anime references 50% Monty Python References

@chxrbb_dxllhouse5403 4 года назад

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries

@LinhHa-gx5js 4 года назад

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

@Agent_Clark 4 года назад

50% Merlin references

@diablotry5154 4 года назад

1% tales of arcadia references 1% marvel references

@cjpreach 4 года назад

"50% Anime references - 50% Monty Python References" Neither of which I am a fan. But Arthur is groovy cool.

@CuriosityCulture 6 лет назад

The power of poetry is real. I just wish I felt this way in high school English class!

@oof-rr5nf 6 лет назад

I know I did at least for Robert Frost's "Two Roads" and Shakespeare's "Nor Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments" (also, Julius Ceaser - does that count?) and Samuel Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". Oh, and "Ozymadias" by Percy Shelley. I had to look up the full titles and authors' names, lol.

@oof-rr5nf 6 лет назад

@Ronit Narendra Dhanphole 🤘👊

@Richard_Nickerson 6 лет назад

Better teachers and better examples could have had me interested sooner.

@rajeshsharmajaipur 6 лет назад

@Ronit Narendra Dhanphole CBSE is the best thing India ever did in Educating it's young generation.

@rajeshsharmajaipur 6 лет назад

@@oof-rr5nf Also Vikram seth

@Warrka4 4 года назад

Imagine being so interested in a random throw away reference that you accidentally create a legend so big it's never forgotten.

@Mxyzptlksac 2 года назад

Look at Atlantis. It was only an off handed comment by Aristotle which grew into a huge myth

@hunterofdarkness8329 2 года назад

@@Mxyzptlksac Almost forgot that place existed. But that myth will soon end after some technology advancement but I still see no end for the great legends of King Arthur

@Zqppy 2 года назад

There are multiple sources from the time.

@georgehugh3455 Год назад

There very well could have been numerous source materials when the 1170 AD edition of Arthurian legend got going. A lot (of destruction) has happened since then.

@ClorindeASMRWhen 6 лет назад

If King Arthur is real then why haven't I still got him after spending 240 quartz?

@KhanhNguyen-mh5ec 5 лет назад

Steven Zhou Which mean he’s fake! After all, some hag in the body of water distributing sword is not a base for a government institution.

@abhigyakoirala6075 5 лет назад

Clear data and restart it, youll get Arthur for a few minutes

@NotiShounen 4 года назад

Use summon tickets to call forth King Arthur. Or maybe he is terrified of Gudako. That's why?

@financialproblems9308 4 года назад

1% ssr gacha rates that’s why

@mando9518 4 года назад

Wht game

@viviblue2329 6 лет назад

Short more accurate story “there was once a person whose name might’ve translated roughly into Arthur. He was a skilled military man and he and his men fought the invaders of the isles. The end”

@mariojorge68 5 лет назад

Or were the invaders of the isles

@zoetropo1 5 лет назад

Vivi Blue: And defeated them. That’s crucial. As is the fact that they then married the widows and daughters of the men they’d slain, and employed the poorer Anglo-Saxon women as nannies, thus ensuring that the English language would prevail. (Gildas facepalms.)

@deriejohns9809 5 лет назад

His name was Rio Thamus...I think

@TheStantriX98 5 лет назад

Lucius Arturius Castus

@zoetropo1 4 года назад

Dedrie Johnson: Riothamus, a personal friend of Sidonius Apollinaris. Jordanes called him ‘King of the Britons’. Gregory of Tours and Cassiodorus also provide information. So he is a well-attested historic figure.

@ekoi1995 2 года назад

0:16 Thomas Malory - Le Morte D'Arthur 15th century 1:26 The Gododdin - Gwawrddur was skilled slaying his enemies 2:01 1130 - Geoffrey of Monmouth ∟2:13 The history of the Kings of Britain ∟2:27 he cobbled together fragments of myth and poetry to compensate of almost complete lack of offical records ∟2:48 Caledfwlch and Caerleon ∟3:03 Merlin - Myrddin 3:21 Latin to French - Wace 1155 CE ∟3:34 Round Table 3:45 Chretien de Troyes ∟3:55 Lancelot and Gawain ∟4:06 Love Triangle ∟4:08 Holy Grail 4:39 Caerleon to Camelot 4:41 Caliburnus to Excalibur

@MTC008 8 месяцев назад

if arthur did actually existed, he would had been likely a germanic tribe leader only not a king or leader of a kingdom, but he will have a nation but it is only a group of primitive tents basically a tribal kingdom of the germanic people so he will be a tribe chief of a germanic primitive tent village

@TheDataman2 4 года назад

I always find it amusing when Arthur is used as an example of a mythical, medieval king of England. It's ironic because he was historically made famous in the earlier Old welsh poems, as he led the Britons in their battles to defend Albion against the invading Saxons (modern day English). So not an English King, but rather their worst enemy! Also, shocking pronunciations of the welsh words Caledfwlch and Caerleon!

@georgehugh3455 Год назад

Of course the Saxon kings gave way to the Normans, etc., and now I think the Germans are in charge, no?

@chrissmith3587 Год назад

We shouldn’t really describe the invading Saxons as the modern English, Modern English and the “anglo-saxons” were a mix of people, including the Britons of the Roman and post Roman periods. To the English, Arthur is one side of a war our ancestors fought

@shelbynamels7948 11 месяцев назад

the pronunciations may be shocking, but at least he kept is tongue intact 😆😅🤣

@n1ppe 10 месяцев назад

Were they shockingly bad or shockingly good pronounciations?

@cymro6537 2 месяца назад

Cytuno'n llwyr ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@FlynnMegaTensei 4 года назад

Nobody: Type moon: Yeah he would make a great waifu

@shirayukinobunaga9424 4 года назад

Also Type Moon: He made such a good waifu that we decided to give out the male form as well

@maracabo1176 4 года назад

Actually it was suposed to be a male hero and the game was with a female heroine But then they fought about Shirou and re did everything to focus on him and his vision of heroism, and the gender swap was suposed to be a 1 time thing Times didn't ended up as planed

@maracabo1176 4 года назад

@Joshua Sweeney Its a game company that made a series called Fate, it has a bunch of heros os history and mythology and some of them become waifus

@ninjaluc79 3 года назад

@@maracabo1176 Back when Fate was made in 2004, otome games (Visual Novels for female audiences) didn't sell that well and probably still don't today, so a visual novel with a male Arthur and a female protagonist would not have made it to primetime. The decision to swap their genders, i.e., a female Arthur and a male protagonist, turned Type Moon and Fate into the commercial juggernauts they are today.

@electrocuti 3 года назад

Love ur pfp

@TuanAnhNguyen-en9bx 4 года назад

Ah yes, Camelot. That brings memories... EXCALIBUR... GALATINEEE

@ozymandio5050 4 года назад

RHONGOMYNIAD

@blazeasu 4 года назад

CLARENTO BLOOD ARTHURR

@marcbernardo8728 4 года назад

Ptsd

@vincentxu8217 4 года назад

I feel you. I could only beat one boss every three days.

@gp2779 4 года назад

I’m gonna counter it with EYE OF THE EURYALEEEEE

@shortfuse875 6 лет назад

"We have the Holy Hand Grenade!" "Yes of course! The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!"

@smallbird2049 3 года назад

Yes

@jrsultan3040 3 года назад

Yes

@ShinSennju 3 года назад

shalt thou count to three, no more, no less.

@paulsunday7688 4 года назад

The narrator's voice & accent, are ideal for a story teller. And that music in the end is epic. I just love this video

@Zorn_Arc_Vortigern 2 года назад

Shoutout to the Fate franchise for making me hooked to Myth and historical characters.

@fallenaeon7084 Год назад

@Ainz was it because of the women you smashed in different timelines when you were a highschooler? 🥹

@野村夢-s3s 5 лет назад

Still waiting for Merlin season 6, they have a whole script ready. Just need the producers on board

@Batman-ro9mj 4 года назад

Probably never gonna happen, although I do wish.

@lucky_clover_4 4 года назад

I finished watching it on Netflix a few days ago... I don’t think I’ll ever get over the ending

@bigbruhenergygobrr 4 года назад

@@lucky_clover_4 this is everyone in the Merlin fandom, dont worry

@RandomAsianKid-mv6zq 4 года назад

Is this actually

@mikosbookstore166 4 года назад

I finished it years ago when it first came to tv and I’m STILL not over it.

@stenrod2383 6 лет назад

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

@azizanputra 6 лет назад

Did you heard that??. . . . Look look, Iam being oppressed!

@RoScFan 6 лет назад

Is that from a movie or something?

@a.vandenhoek4636 6 лет назад

Yes, I believe it's from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

@azizanputra 6 лет назад

@@RoScFan yes from the movie monty python and the holy grail.

@arthurbriand2175 6 лет назад

Even today creating a supernatural aura to your ascension to power is a surprisingly effective way to legitimize any claim to supreme power.

@vincentxu8217 4 года назад

"Art thou my Master?"

@taliaflor 6 лет назад

I just so want to hear an audiobook narrated by this guy!

@nettle8605 6 лет назад

**BBC Merlin theme song starts playing**

@hannahquintua 4 года назад

Ohhhhh

@hannahquintua 4 года назад

In a land of myth, and a time of ma-

@lavidaemo3291 3 года назад

Gic, the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young man(about to finish my rewatch, I watched it when I was 5 and have never gone past season 2, and I only have 2 episodes left, I'm not ready to break my heart 😭)

@pickledeggs_1545 3 года назад

Da da da dadadaaaa da

@barbaro267 3 года назад

YESSSS

@vizzini4079 4 года назад

Wait hold up... when does King Arthur become a servant and fight Gilgamesh?

@3Illyas 4 года назад

After her/his fight with Mordred her/his son/daughter. She/He died I guess???

@skilledwarman 3 года назад

@@3Illyas yes actually. they don't make that part very clear in the Fate series, but in the legends Arthur was mortally wounded by Mordred (sometimes his son, sometimes a nephew depending on the version) and eventually died after Excalibur was returned to the lake

@ishanishah3340 3 года назад

Is that the viking creation myth

@GG-vr8zz 3 года назад

@@ishanishah3340 nope, its japanese creation myth

@samuraijosh1595 3 года назад

@@ishanishah3340 Anime.

@unleashingpotential-psycho9433 6 лет назад

All I know is Saber from Fate Stay Night was awesome.

@stephenthomson3120 6 лет назад

Artoria Pendragon, the true identity of King Arthur.

@forgethefrostdragonslayer162 6 лет назад

She is awesome

@kwenisama 6 лет назад

The best version of Arthur!

@pyroromancer 6 лет назад

Super soaker champion ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OQBf5RyjNTI.html

@smooveayy 6 лет назад

And that Excalibur from Soul Eater is annoying af

@jellyboy00 6 лет назад

Japanese even turned Arthur in to a women and made her fall in love with a high-school teenage LOL

@kimjiro4591 6 лет назад

Sabeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

@rollin340 5 лет назад

Arguably the most well known and successful version of any of his legends. We live in an interesting time, don't we?

@jedimasterpickle3 5 лет назад

@@rollin340 I mean, I love Fate, but I'd wager that Monty Python is more well-known than Fate/Stay Night.

@Invic_Silver 5 лет назад

@@jedimasterpickle3 Probably only among older audience.

@wijcik 5 лет назад

@@Invic_Silver Probably. I have never heard of Fate but I'm in my thirties. I'm not up on what the teens and twenty-somethings know. I will admit, also not a fan of anime. Surprised no one has mentioned BBC's Merlin on here or the fantastic Mists of Avalon from the '90's. So many versions of this tale!

@catmom1322 3 года назад

I'm a firm believer that the Camelot story--all versions--are equally accurate & will believe that for the rest of my life. It's one of my favorite stories & whenever I see an Arthurian story of any kind, I have to read it.

@crashoppe 2 года назад

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. you cant expect to wield extreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. if i went around saying i was an emperor just because some moistened bink had lodged a scimitar at me they'd put me away. - Dennis from the holy grail

@themangix357 6 лет назад

Arthur's holy hand grenade, the Knights of Ni, and his answer to the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.

@StoatoftheSouth 2 года назад

But is it an African or European swallow?

@everydaydoge40 6 лет назад

EKUSUUU...KALIBAAAAAAAA

@tedisonpadoru9129 6 лет назад

Caaaaalibuuuurn

@DJ-ei4ox 6 лет назад

Yahhhhhhh hahaahha

@007MrYang 6 лет назад

SABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@mikostubborn 6 лет назад

KALIBAAAAAAAAA

@wall-nut9917 6 лет назад

SEIBAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@terragthegreat175 3 года назад

If you want a version of the Arthurian canon that puts the stories back in the period they originated from (the British Dark Age c. 500 AD) then read Bernard Cromwells 'Warlord Chronicles'. By far the best version of the Arthur myths. It's more historical fiction than anything and is packed with so much character and tension I don't think I'll ever be able to look at any other version of the stories again.

@rubyred9404 6 лет назад

i love your videos! they’re educational and entertaining !

@annefrommoors9847 5 лет назад

if you really want something educational on this subject, go to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vHGF6uUoItU.html instead of this 5 min of extremely brief summary and childish drawings

@stenrod2383 6 лет назад

Bedevere: What makes you think she is a witch? Peasant: Oh, she turned me into a newt! [Bedevere gives him a disbelieving look] Bedevere: A newt? [Silence] Peasant: Well, I got better. Peasant Crowd: Burn her anyway!

@ethancheung2696 6 лет назад

There are ways of telling if she is a witch

@vincentrodrigo3246 6 лет назад

hahahaha nice

@derek1680 6 лет назад

Stenrod BURN AT THE STAKE

@bleubol 6 лет назад

LOOOL MONTYYYYY

@Brandonhayhew 6 лет назад

Bloody Peasant!

@weltschmertzz 4 года назад

I love the tone of his voice and slow pace! It's relaxing and like therapy.

@osianowen17 6 лет назад

Did you know the legend of King Arthur came from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@lauriejanes6511 5 лет назад

GamerKing0504 Really? Do you know where and from whom it began? I’ve always been fascinated.

@lauriejanes6511 5 лет назад

Anglia Alba Thank you - never heard the word Brythonic - will look it up.

@gwynwilliams4222 5 лет назад

@Anglia Alba the name welsh was created by the English but the people were cymru who later are called welsh the name change but the people are the same Britons welsh or cymru it'd all the same so king Arthur was welsh

@gwynwilliams4222 5 лет назад

@Anglia Alba king Arthur was born in south Wales he was king of glamorgan. 400 years later the English king wanted to rule Wales so they tried to claim Arthur was born in Cornwall so he had God on his side but it was all lies they paid a Welsh lord money to say this his name was gerard of Wales. King Arthur had nothing to do with Cornwall or England

@zoetropo1 4 года назад

Anglia Alba: Layamon?

@gwynwilliams4222 5 лет назад

All of the history of king Arthur can be found in Welsh history Arthur was real. The problem is that so many historians who had no knowledge of Welsh language messed around with it and now people think he was fiction and English. He was the king of glamorgan and us Welsh know this to be true

@davidsenra2495 Год назад

The origin of the Arthurian legend is obviously Celtic, as it developed from the fight of the romano-britons against the anglo Saxons. But over the centuries, everything was so embellished to the point it's impossible to distinguish fact from fiction nowadays. Oral history will always do that. If someone called Arthur did exist, and I believe that's very possible, his life was very different from the tale we have nowadays.

@ekn_38 6 лет назад

Oh man...Now I suddenly have the urge to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail

@FelixHdez 6 лет назад

that profile pic tho, Love that game, still waiting for the 2nd one when its ready.

@owlbme 6 лет назад

Watch Merlin on Netflix, it's quite entertaining :)

@justaguythatlikesanime4247 6 лет назад

Second I saw this video I just wanted to go to in the comments to see if anyone else watches Merlin on Netflix you're right I love it I watched it like 10 times each season season 10 times so I've watched the show 10 times

@margaretbonassar709 6 лет назад

Yesss Merlin is amazing

@kayaeki 6 лет назад

Put it on my list

@azwrathfrost 6 лет назад

yup this in on my mind right now 4:04

@RomarioDev 6 лет назад

merlin tv series is a 10/10 show i even making a game about king arthur :DDD

@welshinc5782 4 года назад

I love that the reason we link Merlin to Arthur is because Monmouth wrote a book about Myrddin that didn't do well so he included in The Kings of Britain and put it right next to Arthur bits. It's basically filler because it recounts some stuff that happens and because Monmouth changed the order of some historical events has Merlin talking about things that haven't happened yet in the past tense.

@anormaldudewhowasattackedb9864 6 лет назад

EXUUUUUUCARIBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@avirel5584 4 года назад

King Arthuria Pendragon❤

@SagePqantom 4 года назад

Avirel PERIODTTTTT 🥺🥺

@aap_chutiye2 4 года назад

People die when they are killed

@aweebandacomicfan9090 4 года назад

@@aap_chutiye2 just becouse you are correct doesn't mean you are right

@aap_chutiye2 4 года назад

a weeb and a comic fan The archer class is really made up of Archers

@bluecat6902 5 лет назад

But Excalibur isnt Caliburn. Arthur pulled Caliburn from the stone but he acquired Excalibur from the lady of the lake. If im not mistaken

@agenti4734 3 года назад

Yeah but history actually fricked things up. They were initially one in the same if I am not wrong. But then historians messed up the names and now you got two swords

@katherinelai567 3 года назад

I'm curious where you're getting this confidence from lol

@Batman-ro9mj 3 года назад

They’re used interchangeably all the time

@MicheleGardini 3 года назад

yes, they had this problem to make one from two, and that's how we had the idea for swiss knife.

@wetershinobi4111 3 года назад

@Akila Thompson-Powell it could get really consuming at times. Like who's whose daughter, husband, wife, nephew, or maybe all of them

@tormentedzeus2755 4 года назад

Its amazing how a then probably very ordinary poem changed so drastically and became a legend through centuries of miscommunication, misinterpretation and imagination. For all we know Arthur at that time might have been the same as today, a mystery exaggerated by poets at those times. Whatever it maybe, it hardly matters anymore, but its still nice to have a fantasy concocted by several individual's unique imagination made into a great legend.

@Zqppy 2 года назад

King Arthur is clearly established in the history of Wales, as king of Gwent and Glamorgan

@mrtrollnator123 Год назад

@@Zqppy I agree, definitely a welsh/celtic origin

@rami_ungar_writer 6 лет назад

I actually started researching King Arthur earlier this year, and was really surprised by how Arthur evolved. It made for a decent post on my blog, and inspired a story about Arthur I wrote a couple months ago that I hope to get published someday. Fingers crossed that will happen at some point.

@ShifuCareaga 2 года назад

Did you read Wilson & Blackett?

@rami_ungar_writer 2 года назад

@@ShifuCareaga I don't think so.

@ShifuCareaga 2 года назад

@@rami_ungar_writer Please do. And Robert MacCann. you can see their interviews on the YT, btw. search wilson and blackett king arthur. But their books are next level research. Their work is summarized in Adrian Gilbert's "The Holy Kingdom"

@aparnadasgupta1872 6 лет назад

Ah.. my favorite legend, King Arthur. And the fact that I love literature is just making this video extremely ideal for me. Bravo, TED-Ed!

@oceanman4403 3 года назад

"yeah, King Arthur is my waifu"

@spassocane3821 3 года назад

*man of culture spotted*

@hunterofdarkness8329 2 года назад

Man over here spitting straight facts

@nalbakri 6 лет назад

Great video. I do agree that Celtic legends influenced much of the story of King Arthur. French legends played a part too though. Charlemagne is said to have also had 12 knights (or paladins in King Karl's stories) who sat around a round table who stories say went off to perform great deeds of daring do such as in the poem, The Song of Roland. Though seeing that it was penned around the same time as Geoffrey of Monmouth's work I guess it's equally fair to say that the Paladin's could have been based on Arthur's Grail Knights.

@zoetropo1 4 года назад

nalbakri: the oldest surviving form of the Song of Roland is the ‘Norman French’ edition of the 11th/12th century. It contains cameos by Geoffrey of Anjou, Richard of Normandy and Eudon of Brittany - actual historic figures of the era it was composed in.

@nonetheworse 5 лет назад

Playing Fate Game Order game and this pop up. I really like the video!

@dustyk103 2 года назад

I think it would’ve been nice if you’d mention the battles like Badon and Camlann in the early 6th century AD that Arthur was supposed to have led. Also, The story of Lancelot and Guinevere love triangle seems to have been derived from the story of Tristan and Isolde.

@faridasheini782 3 года назад

this man's voice and accent makes the story all the more interesting. Other worldly

@aiber3303 4 года назад

4:13 *"A GRRRRAIIILLL!!??"*

@samarvora7185 4 года назад

You know much that is hidden, o Tim.

@theobolt250 4 года назад

Wait! I've got one. Somewhere lying around. 😜

@ichigahara 4 года назад

Wow the anime adaptation of fgo Camelot arc is looking great

@wetershinobi4111 3 года назад

You mean the live action and 5 books?

@minhtran7431 3 года назад

@ipeaceful6 6 лет назад

Wonderful animation and great storytelling. I had no idea this was how the tale of King Arthur was conceived.

@ValleyRider02 2 года назад

Welsh history is steeped in myths and legends. Wales is such a mystical and magical country! It feels so ancient and is well worth a visit.

@Finnbobjimbob Год назад

Most of this story takes place in England?

@tomk.williams1186 8 месяцев назад

@@Finnbobjimbob Geoffrey of Monmouth was Welsh the original poems were Welsh .. king Arthur was written to protect the original Britons (Welsh) against the English

@pattube 3 месяца назад

In summary: 1. Celtic myths and legends from oral traditions and surviving poetry. The core of the Arthurian tales originates from the Celts. Arthur as the valiant warrior king who unites the peoples in the land after the Romans leave Britain. 2. Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain. Most of his "history " is less history and more akin to legends and myths. King Arthur is the central protagonist of the work. 3. Robert Wace. Norman poet Wace translated and adapted Geoffrey of Monmouth's work into French. 4. Chretien de Troyes. He added the major element of romance into the Arthurian tales. Such as the love triangle between Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere. He added as adventure tales of individual knights like Lancelot and Gawain and he added the quest for the holy grail. 5. Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory is a synthesis of all the previous into a single literary work that is the primary basis of all Arthurian tales since then (e.g. The Once and Future King).

@zubaidazaman7078 5 лет назад

(Merlin theme song plays in head )

@hannahquintua 3 года назад

Ah yes!!!! Also, idk if you already know but there's this fanmade season six called Kingdom Come

@cramerfloro5936 6 лет назад

I'm currently reading the Mabinogion. There are some hints and stories about him there as well

@cramerfloro5936 6 лет назад

Ton ton well, je became very popular also in England, right after he (probably) lived, because he resembled the resistence against the Saxons.

@catrinm3427 6 лет назад

Ton ton thank you! Someone finally said it!

@auroranight6559 5 лет назад

the Mabinogion is the very first mention of Arthur. I am not pleased that the video left this out.

@craigmoyle2924 5 лет назад

The mabinogi if understood correctly is a how to get there encrypted map of the treasures of wales which includes the ark of the covenant and the true cross of christ all hidden in south and west wales

@Laurelin70 4 года назад

@@auroranight6559 The Mabinogion came after Gododdin.

@joegarcia0 6 лет назад

Such an interesting topic! Great video as always

@wawahamdan1159 5 лет назад

I hope you can do on Malacca's legend of Taming Seri, a magical weapon owned by Hang Tuah, the warrior of Malacca. The fact that this weapon actually exists (Taming Sari became part of the Perak royalty's regalia) makes me so curious to know more whether the magical aspect of it is more than just a tale or not.

@wawahamdan1159 4 года назад

@Cult of DECC that's why it's a legend? Which part of my comment that you don't get huh 😅😅

@wawahamdan1159 4 года назад

@Cult of DECC again, which is why I said it's a legend? Simply interested to know the story behind how the weapon was perceived as magical by the local community. I never said that it got some real, pure magic lmao. Which part of my comment regarding how the weapon is a legend that you don't get eh? 😅 King Arthur is a legend. Chinese got their own magical creatures (which of course, a legend too). Greek got their gods and goddess (another myth). Why are you so pressed about a person wanting to know more about another legend?

@xrailgungamer1129 4 года назад

EXCALIBAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!! - *Saber*

@idkwayta1722 6 лет назад

Every damn time Arthurian legend is discussed Fate fans have to poke it, do they

@Chrome-uc3fw 6 лет назад

Yes

@whathell6t 6 лет назад

idk wayta Well! At least it’s better than dealing with Jojo fans.

@josefernandez4423 6 лет назад

anime was a mistake

@whathell6t 6 лет назад

Jose Fernandez Tell me this: If Hayao Miyazaki, the guy who coined that PHRASE, thought that “anime is a mistake”, then why did he protected and took care of Hideaki Anno, the guy who literally save anime from the late 1990 Japanese Recession? If he haven’t protected Hideaki Anno, then anime would have been dead 20 years ago.

@genroynoisis6980 6 лет назад

@@whathell6t nah anime was still a mistake

@PowahSlapEntertainmint 6 лет назад

_(Arthur theme song starts playing in head)._

@precool1048 6 лет назад

PowahSlap Entertainmint HEY! WHY IS IT THAT I ALWAYS SEE U IN THE COMMENTS NOW AND THEN! ARE YOU THE NEXT JUSTIN Y.?

@ethancheung2696 6 лет назад

We’re knights of the round table, We dance when we are able, We do routines and chorus scenes With footwork impeccable. We dine well here in Camelot. We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.

@disconsolate3235 6 лет назад

WHY R U ALWAYS EVERYWHERE?!!?

@chariethe 6 лет назад

Everyday when you’re walking down the street, everybody that you meet Has an original point of view And I say HEY! What a wonderful kind of day Where you can learn to work and play And get along with each other You got to listen to your heart Listen to the beat Listen to the rhythm, the rhythm of the street Open up your eyes, open up your ears Get together and make things better by working together It’s a simple message and it comes from the heart Believe in yourself (believe in yourself) Well that’s the place to start (to start) And I say HEY! What a wonderful kind of day Where you learn to work and play And get along with each other (Repeat chorus)

@oscaradolfosandovalrojas6237 Год назад

Read the comic "Once & Future" by Kieron Gillien and Dan Mora. It's a horror/dark fantasy story based on the Arthurian legend and many other mythical figures from British folklore.

@watchila 6 лет назад

Amazing channel! I also particularly loved the narrator on this one and his accent. Great moment, thank you all.

@Richard_Nickerson 6 лет назад

Thank you! I would gladly watch a full hour version of this. I love this in-depth history and the distinction of fact from fiction.

@xyanaid7221 4 года назад

Amazing video, but it lacks the moment where Gilgasmesh tried to marry King Arthur also king arthur was a girl

@alejandroacevedo9258 4 года назад

”king” Arthur, not “queen”

@kataknabe6244 4 года назад

@@alejandroacevedo9258 it's a reference to a series

@rohaverseee 4 года назад

King ArThuRia PEnDrAGoN.

@asuplays2256 4 года назад

Gilgamesh is gey

@azumarzi6305 4 года назад

Is that a Jojo referance?

@Thammarith 6 лет назад

I love listening to this narrator!

@KimKim-pp5fn 4 года назад

probably the best short and very interesting story about arthur

@TinyMedicine 6 лет назад

Wow! Wow! WoW! A big fan of your animation style.!! good job

@PatrickSmithAnimation 3 года назад

Thanks!

@planewire2153 4 года назад

All I know about King Arthur is that Gilgamesh tried to marry her and she chased Alexander the Great while he was on his flying chariot

@drunkdriver 3 года назад

with a yamaha V-Max

@vincentmanuelbelimac672 2 года назад

@@drunkdriver upgraded

@tamaki_souh 6 лет назад

I just love this channel sooo much.. And I've to say..the narrator's voice is reallyyyyyy good.It gave the whole story a great deal of depth and a powerful impact.. Edit:As usal the animation is top-notch❤❤❤.. I highly respect u guys..You all are sooo talented..This channel and *The great big story*..i just adore these channels..learned sooo much..THANK you..

@carlygorgal4514 6 лет назад

This showed up in my recommendations. I've never googled anything related to king Arthur; only left my phone in the desk while my literature teacher taught us about the legend...

@jeffreychurch2018 Год назад

Britain had around 40 different tribes around that era, a few had chieftains with names that could be translated as Arthur. To compound the problem, there was a Roman who is is mentioned in Roman archives as Arcturus, Dux Bellum Britannica, Arthur, Warlord of Britain. Then to take confusion farther there was a Celtic god whose name would translate out to Arthur.

@ShantanuAryan67 6 лет назад

The quote is back!

@ukemike1 Год назад

Wow so much that this left out. For instance Arthur is mentioned in many of the Welsh Triads. Though not mentioned by the 5th century monk Gildas, the Seige of Badon Hill is mentioned. Another source says that Arthur killed Gildas' brother, so perhaps anger prevented him from naming Arthur in his work. Arthur is mentioned in the Annals Cambriae, which is purportedly a contemporary history, in which he is credited for winning the battle of Badon and carrying the Cross on his shield. Nennius also mentions Arthur several times. It is very likely that an Arthur lived, but he was probably a military leader in the fights against the Saxons, he was probably not a king.

@kalenzypie 5 лет назад

The Sword In The Stone is my favourite Disney non-pixar movie! Thanks Ted-Ed! Ive been curious about this

@thedukeofswellington1827 Год назад

A perfect introduction to the difference between history and heritage. The significance and power of historiography and the national epic

@xXx_adri2_xXx 6 лет назад

Wonderful Legend, wonderful animation, wonderful voice, thank you so much !!

@carlosgranados3911 2 года назад

ITHACA was a legend until DISCOVERED. l wouldn't be surprised if, sooner or later, they FIND the tomb of the GREAT KING ARTHUR and that of all the MEMBERS of the ROUND TABLE. My full respect. You've been this awesome channel over TEN YEARS.

@Catqueen-lk4eq 5 лет назад

love the accent, really matches the knighthood.

@ashleyloreto8790 5 лет назад

Damn Merlin and his pelvic magic

@wetershinobi4111 3 года назад

Artoria: "Eyo Merlin my boy, I'm getting married today so what should I do about this?" *points towards her empty crotch. Merlin: *awakens his inner Futanari enjoyer

@MrAcarine 4 года назад

There are four pieces of evidence for the historicity of Arthur. 1) The Gododdin 2) the reference in Nennius. Nennius wrote 300 years later, but the proof that he was using an old source is that the twelve place-names he gives can't be identified. 3)the reference to Arthur and Mordred in the Annales Cambriae. This was written 400 years later, but we might infer that since the dozens of other people the chronicle names are known to have existed, it's evidence that Arthur and Mordred did too 4) the so called "Arthur stone" found at Tintagel, the place the traditions say was Arthur's birthplace.

@ffarkasm 3 года назад

0:27 King Arthur has risen again and again in our collective imagination, along with his retinue of knights, the Shrubbery, Guinevere, the African swallow, the Round Table, Camelot (which is only a model) and of course, the Rabbit of Caerbannog.

@StarBoundFables Год назад

Thanks for the amazing edutainment, Ted-Ed 🙏🏼 This was spectacularly narrated and animated. I read about the Star Wars authors of their High Republic era having been inspired partially by Arthurian tales

@Chrome-uc3fw 6 лет назад

And then, The Fate fans will come around and say SEIBAAA

@thesaltycrusader 6 лет назад

That won't stop Monty Python fans making King Arthur references

@rolandart5670 6 лет назад

Tis but a scratch!

@KhanhNguyen-mh5ec 5 лет назад

Other fate fan: Seiba! Me: Seal 13 decision starts!

@whosaidthat84 5 лет назад

A brand new war has arisen: Fate vs Monty Python. I choose the killer rabbit!

@jacobbiscuit9080 4 года назад

seiba

@rhmw9625 6 лет назад

Do one of Charlemagne! :)

@farhani29 4 года назад

Your voice adds to the drama of the story. Marvelous!

@SlickCookie 4 года назад

Every kid named Arthur “It’s showtime”

@jessehackman3888 4 года назад

the real Arthur was a warrior named Ambrosius Aurelianus,a Roman-Britannic who tried to stop the anglo-saxons invasions of Britannia in the 5th Century A.D.

@arldoran 4 года назад

Great work. Still, I would wish to hear a bit from Lucius Artorius Castus too. This would make a more fullfilled story of King Arthur.

@MrRabiddogg 3 года назад

Arthur wasn't a single man but rather the lineage of Kings. Arth(ur) means Bear in Welsh. Each of the Knights of the round table represented first the tribes of Britannia and later the orders of knights. There may be mythology and fictional tales within the overall story but the the Legends are more or less historical.