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Hace 2 días · Published July 24, 2024. According to legend, the British ruler King Arthur wielded a powerful sword called Excalibur in battle — and the weapon may have had magical powers. Public Domain King Arthur’s sword, Excalibur, makes up an important part of his legend. In his 12th-century text History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth ...
Hace 1 día · July 25, 2024. The Bright Sword. ( Courtesy of Penguin Random House ) The much-anticipated new novel from Lev Grossman, the bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy, provides a fresh take on the legend of King Arthur. The Bright Sword imagines a Camelot filled with broken people who want to not only rebuild their land, but themselves.
Hace 3 días · With The Bright Sword, Grossman returns to the fantasy-quest novel, but this time he’s taking on the Arthurian canon with a book that took a decade to write. His irresistible reimagining of the legend, in a world where King Arthur and most of the knights of the Round Table are dead, with a young outsider arriving on the scene to be challenged ...
Hace 2 días · Nationality. British. Galahad ( / ˈɡæləhæd / ), sometimes referred to as Galeas ( / ɡəˈliːəs /) or Galath ( / ˈɡæləθ / ), among other versions of his name, is a knight of King Arthur 's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. He is the illegitimate son of Sir Lancelot du Lac and Lady ...
Hace 1 día · The debate around Arthur’s existence as a real king, believe it or not, is not exclusive to the modern era, or even the Arthur-obsessed Victorian era. As William Caxton’s preface to Malory’s Le Morte Darthur bears out, even in the fifteenth century, people could be found on both sides of the debate. In the preface to the 1485 CE edition ...
Hace 5 días · As the centuries pass, the legend of King Arthur and Excalibur continues to captivate our imagination. It is a testament to the enduring power of myth and the human spirit’s quest for meaning and heroism. The sword in the stone, though long vanished from our world, remains a beacon of hope and a symbol of the extraordinary that lies within us ...
Hace 5 días · This is a detail from one of N.C. Wyeth’s illustrations for The Boy’s King Arthur. I wanted to put it on the cover of The Bright Sword, but it ended up looking like a Dan Jones history book so we scrapped it
