The book of British ballads . IjING ARTHUR and the Knights of his Round Table are familiarto all lovers of old romance. But to the chroniclers inrhyme, who made their own Histories, he is indebted notonly for his fame, but, probably, for his existence ; althoughRitson is bitterly wrath with a mendacious scribbler,who presumed to doubt the actual being of this Kyngof Englonde. The fabulous History of Geoffrey ofMonmouth, published about the middle of the twelfth cen-tury, is the undoubted source upon which the minstrels ofafter ages drew so largely. If there were romances andballads on the same
The book of British ballads . IjING ARTHUR and the Knights of his Round Table are familiarto all lovers of old romance. But to the chroniclers inrhyme, who made their own Histories, he is indebted notonly for his fame, but, probably, for his existence ; althoughRitson is bitterly wrath with a mendacious scribbler,who presumed to doubt the actual being of this Kyngof Englonde. The fabulous History of Geoffrey ofMonmouth, published about the middle of the twelfth cen-tury, is the undoubted source upon which the minstrels ofafter ages drew so largely. If there were romances andballads on the same subject anterior to his time, they havesended to us; and there is no evidence to support his assertion thathJ the story was translated by him from a very ancient book. The generalimpression is that it was a pure invention of the historian. It is, however,romantic, exciting, and interesting to the highest degree; and amply merits itsT renown, whether founded on fact, or a mere fiction. Arthur was the son ofUther Pendragon, Ki
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