Did King Arthur really exist?

[Prince of China]

My Humanities 8 class are doing the medieval age and we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

It made me wonder, did King Arthur really exist?
Discuss...

 

[The Dark Elf]

your class were allowed to watch that? thats not fair!

Anyway, yeah he did exist, just not in the way he's remembered I imagine. Merlin was probably either made up many years later, or started life as some jester. Arthur was probably nothing special.

I saw a program once about the Arthur legend and I think they concluded he was infact based on a number of other kings and legend just turned it into one.

Course its all just guess work I suppose

 

[Maskirovka]

lol we got to watch that movie in my class as well...90% of the people just sat there and never laughed....ahh the magic of british humor

it is honestly a good (if cheap, simplistic, and generalized) representation of what life was like in medieval times.

 

[nw909]

Originally posted by Maskirovka
lol we got to watch that movie in my class as well...90% of the people just sat there and never laughed....ahh the magic of british humor

it is honestly a good (if cheap, simplistic, and generalized) representation of what life was like in medieval times.

THEY DIDN'T LAUGH?!111

man, thats bad, how serious are they about stuff?

 

[[Matt]]

http://www.uidaho.edu/student_orgs/arthurian_legend/england/arch/

^helpful link^

 

[Prince of China]

Our teacher related some things to the Monty Pytho video, such as the trebuche and how trial by ordeal worked...
Even though the video was for laughs, we learned a lot.
King Arthur seems interesting.

 

[Maskirovka]

Originally posted by nw909
THEY DIDN'T LAUGH?!111

man, thats bad, how serious are they about stuff?

nope...they weren't super-serious people...they just didn't get the jokes...or they didn't give a crap

 

[Javert]

Yes, he did. Though, there are some tales woven around this warrior king, he and his castle did exist.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

well, it's not entirely certain actually. no one really knows. there isn't really any verifiable evidence that he existed, from what i understand. there is, however, anecdotal evidence. cheifly, the inability of the saxons to settle western britain some time in the late 5th or early 6th century. their difficulty is often attributed to a celtic warlord, usually refered to as "king arthur". why arthur? apparently, prior to this time, the name arthur was rare throughout britian, but after the early 6th century the name became very popular (for people and in songs and poems too). where reality and myth diverge though won't be known until the government gives me money to devlop my time machine damn it.

 

[destrukt]

Javert: g0t proof?

Monty python is awesome

 

[dfc05]

according to some really old, typewritten, photocopied-so-many-times-that-they're-hard-to-read notes (and then there's those vocabulary sheets that are typewritten and have misspelled words... and those biology notes that were typewritten and have x's over the mistakes.... umm, back on topic....) from my English teacher about the history of England, King Arthur was real. I think it said that he was the last great Celtic ruler who protected England from the... umm.... Germanic maybe?... invaders from the European mainland in the ?th century BC... I think.... yeah, it's one of those things that I memorize for a test and then totally forget afterwards; but I think he was real but when the history got passed down to medieval times they messed around with the story to make it more interesting so now it sounds fake.

"Our teacher related some things to the Monty Pytho video, such as the trebuche and how trial by ordeal worked..."
yep trebuchets... of course they're real, and sadly I learned about them through age of empires... the game manual is like a history book--I looked in it when I was researching for an essay that I wrote last year for world history about technology in that time period; it basically had the same info as in the history textbook so I didn't stick it in my bibliography because that would have looked pretty bad...

 

[Lil' Timmy]

dfc05, you are allowed to read my post, you know.

 

[chu]

Originally posted by Maskirovka
lol we got to watch that movie in my class as well...90% of the people just sat there and never laughed....ahh the magic of british humor

it is honestly a good (if cheap, simplistic, and generalized) representation of what life was like in medieval times.

I remember in grade school when we would watch stupid silly cartoons, everyone would laugh except me. I would always sit back and think "Oh great, I'm surrounded by f*cking idiots!"

I like smart and dark comedy, the subtle kind. I hate over the top dick and fart joke humor.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

Originally posted by chu
I like smart and dark comedy, the subtle kind. I hate over the top dick and fart joke humor.

then what are you hanging around here for?

 

[nw909]

Penis, haha

*Fart*

 

[MrMethane]

You said the P-word! *giggles*

 

[Javert]

Originally posted by destrukt
Javert: g0t proof?

Darn it, now ur forcing me thinking up that magazine article again...

Oh, for the record, we're speaking of folklore, so just because i say the man existed doesn't say that he, King Arthur of unfortunate 'Disney' fame, really existed as exactly transcribed in the legends, so I hope you did not misconstrue. Then again, I'll admit, the article nor I have no definite proof of The King Arthur, so we can only surmise.