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King Arthur

ƒA[ƒT[‰€ by M.Bowley He was born at Tintagel , as a child of injustice between Uther Pendragon who was King of Britain and Ygerna who was wife of the Duke of Cornwall.

As soon as he came on earth, he was delivered to Merlin and was entrusted to Ector.
One day when he had grown to a boy , he draw out the sword from the anvil on the stone in a church.
This miracle proved that he was the justifiable king.

After it, he positioned himself at Camelot and unified Britain through numerous battles.
However, at the battle of Camlann, he received the fatal blow from Mordred (Arthur's son or nephew) who betrayed him .

Morgan le Fay , Dam de Lac (Lady of the Fountain) and other ladies carried dying Arthur to Avalon by boat. It is said that King Arthur lives in somewhere even now.
    Or, it is also said that he died and was buried at Glastonbury with the epitaph;

"Here lies the once and future king"




Kay


The son of Ector.
He grew up with Arthur and became his first knight.
They said he was a cynical fellow with"an eternal barbed tongue" .


Launcelot

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The son of King Ban of Banwick.
He is called "the knight of the lake"
because he was brought up by the Lady of the Lake (Dam de Lac).

He was said to be the most excellent knight during the knights of the round table.
Although many women loved him, he loved only Queen Guinevere all his life.
For that, unity of the knights was disturbed
and the Court of King Arthur was guided to collapse.

Galahad is his son given by Elaine of Corbenic.


Tristan

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The son of Meliodas of Liones.
Being born in the woods, he lost his mother at the same time.
Because of this situation of his birth, he was named Tristram means "sad man" .

He was very beautiful and excellent.
That is the reason why he was envied and had to go out the Court.
After wandering, he became dependent upon King Mark of Cornwall who was his uncle.

He meant well by "Beautiful Isolde" who was the princess of enemy Ireland,
and tried to see her as the consort of King Mark.
His kindness to her changed to something exceeded reason
because he drank aphrodisiac by mistake.
He had to suffer from the conflict of loyalty and love .
It is when he appeared on the Court of King Arthur.

Although he got married "Isolde of the white hand" who was the benefactor of life ,
He died the last while waiting for "Beautiful Isolde".
It was the life continued to be affected by poison and drugs.


Gawain

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The son of Lot, king of Orkney. One of Arthur's nephews.
He is known with bravery and many stories has written about his adventures.
From the morning to noon, especially his power strengthened.

Although he got married to an ugly woman for Arthur,
as soon as her hope was given priority to his one, the curse faded away,
the bride showed an original beautiful figure.

Finally, he fighted with Launcelot who killed his brother.

*Many of the images on this site are from The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.

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