The Real History of the King Arthur Legend
The familiar medieval Arthurian myths of a noble King ruling over his kingdom from Camelot, supported by his Round Table of …
source
February 24, 2026
Headlines
"Harmony in Every Heartbeat
The familiar medieval Arthurian myths of a noble King ruling over his kingdom from Camelot, supported by his Round Table of …
source
RUUUUUSSS!!….😂😂😂
Great doc!
11:50 It's the red squirrel from the Sword in the Stone. It's a most bemuddling, most befuddling thing
The Welsh always knew that there were two authors a few hundred years apart and every kid in every textbook knew it until the 1920s when the British removed their books.. at the moment now the national land surveys are removing some of the names of places in Wales and elsewhere because they literally spell out what happened there.. don't get caught being an apologist for piss poor English historians..
Lies lies lies… all lies… DYOR
What a load of crap. Arthur never existed
For the real British History watch ALAN WILSON HISTORIAN on youtube. King Arthur 1 and 2 ,the lost tribes and much more 😉
It only makes sense if Arthur lived after the Roman armies left England in 410. Some say around 450 or 500. There is no way that Arthur lived in the Middle Ages like the 1000s
What do women know about anything?
Cymru am byth ❤ hir fyw Arthur ❤
such a sad choice of thumbnail
Pure myth.
so the dart board is the round table?
There is a good deal of backward projection of modern ideas onto the past in this account. If you are going to treat the subject with the academic rigour it deserves then you really shouldn't be using phrases like "English storytellers" when you mean French storytellers – since both the bards and nobles of "England" spoke French in the period you are talking about, nor call the enemy of the Welsh rebels "Saxons" when clearly they were the Normans, nor even refer to "Wales" as if it were a separate country at that time, which is simply not the case – much of England still spoke the same language (dialects of Welsh still being spoken in England are recorded as late as 1700). The effect of these errors is to give the impression that the "real" story of Arthur originated in Wales and stressing the very modern idea that it is culturally "Celtic" in essence which it isn't – there is substantial evidence for it being both Christian and late Roman – with many key events having occurred in what is today France but at the time was considered part of the same unified country – the western Roman empire. The theme of reunification is at the very heart of the story – both the early fragments from which it was assembled and the later entertaining reconstructions bequeathed to us by Geoffrey, Chretien and Mallory. Apart from these common misunderstandings about the historical context, this is a good account of how the story was repeatedly co-opted to serve the political purposes of the time (although always with the true intent of reforging the political unity that had been lost with the collapse of the Roman order in the west).
For those interested in Arthur the man or the legend, if you haven't already, check out the Arthurian trilogy by Giles Kristian "Lancelot", "Camelot" and "Arthur". All three are brilliant.
Politically and socially its true, King Arthur really is the Once and Future King.
Of course, we don't know if there was a historical King Arthur. If so, he was a Dark Age warrior fighting for his homeland against the encroaching Anglo-Saxons in the 5th-6th century, and the tools of his trade would be Roman-style gladiuses and rusty chainmail. The armor seen in "Excalibur" is closer in time to us than to Arthur.
Arthur may have been a Welsh prince who took the byname Arth ("bear"), or he may have been a non-royal war leader of the Britons, or he may be an amalgam of other legends condensed into one persona. There's just not enough evidence to know one way or another. The narrator is rightly skeptical of the grave conveniently found at Glastonbury; he probably could have been more emphatic that it was all too convenient, too pat, to be true. And a sword buried for 600 years is not going to be in any condition that could be fairly described as "perfect".
Side note: in Welsh, the dd is pronounced "th", so Gwynedd is "gwinneth" and Gododdin is "godothin".
Forgive me for asking but is king Arthur real or not ?
Basically yet another thing the english have stolen off Wales.
Nothing in this leads me to think he was a real person.
What a load of shite! You need to be banned for spewing nonsense!
I love this musical theme for Arthur ❤ https://youtu.be/_WyzTKqpEyk?feature=shared
This is going to sound weird but A dream I had growing up of a bearded man over and over. The background was all rock walls 🧱 as he was standing there, we were both staring at each other as I walked around him then I woke up. Like I said The same dream was over and over growing up. Great documentary thank you!!! 😇♥️🌞🙏🏼🕊
The Welsh disrespect in this is unbelievable.
Check out alan Wilson research
Still, just stories and myths that cannot be proven.
The legend of King Arthur, while quite entertaining…..It has about as much truth to it as a copy of The Beano….
Recent discoveries, of Dunn family ancestry, indicate descendancy from Prince Arthur. https://dunnfamilyofvirginia.blogspot.com/2023/03/john-ross-dunn-esq-1697-1783.html
if there was a castle then it to be a king
England's green and present lands😡😡😡😡😡 there was no England. There was Britain and the British tribes. They never left England because there was no England. If you're going to do a story about a legend get it right.
Can you please do a deep dive into the legends of Robin Hood and the various real men who inspired him? The time period is very fascinating as well during the backdrop of the tyrannical King John and the Harrying of the North.
Terrible pronunciation of the Welsh names!
The thumbnail re-creation is a dead ringer for 'Jax' from 'Sons of Anarchy'. Carry on.
Not mentioning the black book of Carmarthen is CRIMINAL, the oldest surviving manuscript of the welsh language. It includes Arthurian legend and is widely important to welsh culture.
I noticed that recent kings have all had the name of Arthur in their list of names
There's another different story. In the grave was Excalibur. I always heard it was thrown back into the lake to the lake lady. This is the first time to hear it was in a grave. Why is this video so different from all the other's?
At 11:45 that's the first time I ever heard of what was written on the grave. I've seen so many videos of him and never heard that. I really want to believe in this story But there's no proof that he was real. Yet I still watch everything I can about him.