Stories of King Arthur: From Malory to Tennyson:

From the INTRODUCTION WHETHER King Arthur ever really lived we cannot say. There were legends of him in Strathclyde, in South Wales, and in the South West of England how he defeated the victorious Saxons, the Romans, the heathen Picts from beyond the wall all the enemies known to the Britons; how he became a great conqueror, and ruled a vast territory; how at last after a hard-fought battle he passed mysteriously, but should come again and lead his Britons to victory once more. But other na...