The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles

What do you think of when you think of King Arthur?

• Merlin?
• Camelot?
• Round Tables?
• A sword in a stone?
• Killer rabbits?
• Excalibur and a lady in a lake?
• Love affairs?
• The Holy Grail?
• So many Knights and Kings that it's basically impossible to keep them all straight?
• So much smiting (on the left, and the right)?
• The Knights who say Ni?
• Legendary adventures, such as King Arthur becoming the emperor of Rome?

All of those things, except a few, are in this book.  It sounds pretty good, in theory, but it's actually a very hard read.  These legends are old.  Really old.  And this book is basically a compilation of all the different legends placed more or less in chronological order.  They are different stories, though, and there is no continuous plot between them.  Because of its age, it's written in a very different English than that of today, making it hard to read.  It also name drops so many kings and knights that I stopped caring who was who.  Doing so just makes it even more confusing, I'm sure.  For instance, some characters show up in some of the later stories that I could have sworn were killed in earlier stories. Maybe they weren't really the same character.  There's just too many names to keep track of.

If you're really interested in these stories, I would encourage you to read them.  However, since it's a pretty hard read, and not horribly entertaining, I can't really recommend it in general.

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