arthurian

I'm not sure which part of Arthurian legend your mentioning as original here, because Arthurian legends are...

To not let my lack of knowledge take away from the point of the comment - let me reiterate: The point is not how Arthurian legends started.

Either in the Arthurian Hero's Journey sense, or in the sense of having been a myth all along.

China at least has the mythologized three kingdoms period and wuxia stuff, pretty relatable to arthurian style fables.

By far the most popular books were translations of Greek classics and rote derivatives of the Arthurian legends.

Making them far more similar to the battles of Arthurian legend rather than anything contemporary to Tolkien.

It was basically Flash Gordon plus WW2 movies plus samurai movies plus fairy tales and Arthurian fantasy in space.

And when the question is answered, there is nowhere else to go.’ Arthurian legend, Robin Hood, the Greek pantheon, Sun Wukong, Coyote?

The reason that Arthurian legend is so broad and encompassing, is because it's all fiction.

Maybe it was the lack of distraction, but the Arthurian legend of that book has influenced a ton of modern fiction.

Geoffrey of Monmouth (Wales!= England) did not invent the Arthurian legend, he reinvented it.

You seem to have hate-read it because it wasn't encyoclopedic enough and left out some of your favorite bits of Arthurian trivia.

One interesting point to note is that Arthurian legend, in its popular retelling, tends to show Arthur as "the chosen one", which is why he was able to pull out the sword.

I highly recommend having your prompt in Claude code or Roo or what have you include a “talk like an Arthurian wizard including in your code commits and PR‘s.” Line.

Arthurian dragons have largely been the same beasts for, oh, 1000 years.

I think my next read will probably be something by Ishiguro: > [The Buried Giant] follows an elderly Briton couple, Axl and Beatrice, living in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no-one is able to retain long-term memories.