ROMANCE OF KING ARTHUR. From a manuscript of the XIIIth century in the National Library at Paris. Arthur is the hero of the Welsh tales of the Round Table. The stories which are now included in the series are of many ages and of many lands, as poets and writers enlarged, from time to time, upon the work of their predecessors. The foundations of the tales, are the exploits and adventures of a real Arthur who ruled over a part of the people now called with whose people he also became a hero. In the Welsh legends, Arthur is to return to his own at some time, and it is said in some parts of the country so strong is this belief, that a person who expresses a doubt upon the subject is in danger of personal injury. |