Many people we are familiar with, carefully explore the history, but found that there is no such person.
Take the well-known King Arthur, Merlin Mage, and Knight of the Round Table in the film and television drama, which is also such a historical mystery.
Before exploring the story of King Arthur, let's take a brief look at the history of this island called Britain.
The first to set foot on the Island of Britain were North Africans from about 3000 BC, passing through what is now the Iberian Peninsula, crossing the road passage that was suspected to have not been cut off by the sea at that time, arriving in Britain and settling down, and surviving the long Neolithic Age.
Around 500 BC, the Celts from the Alps of central Europe invaded Britain again, and the ancient Iberians, who had long been accustomed to idyllic life, were powerless to fight back in the face of this group of "barbarians" who had washed Greece and Rome in blood, and handed over the civilization accumulated for thousands of years to new tenants.
Interestingly, the leader of this group of Celts was called Brutus, who in history had bloodied the Greek hot springs, desecrated the temples of Olympia, and finally died in Macedonia. However, in the "History of the Kings of Britain" written by the British royal historian, it is recorded that this person is a descendant of Troy (the founder of Rome also said that he was a descendant of Troy, and it seems that foreigners like us Chinese like to climb the branches and recognize their ancestors), this king led a large army through all kinds of difficulties, overcame all kinds of difficulties, came to Britain under the guidance of the moon goddess Diana, and named the island "Britain" after his own name Brutus.
However, some scholars believe that the name "Britain" originated from a Celtic tribe called the Brythonic. -------------------------------------------------
Immediately after, the Roman legions, led by Caesar, began in 54 BC and, after several generations, finally crossed the sea to conquer the area, driving the Celts to the Scottish Highlands in the north and the Welsh valleys in the west. But in the eyes of the Romans at that time, the British Isles was too far from the Eternal City of Rome, almost to the end of the known world, so they were not keen to push the Celts out, and two Roman emperors simply built the Great Wall on the northern border - of course, this Great Wall could not be compared with the Great Wall of China, but the role was similar, and inspired a magical work of later generations - "Song of Ice and Fire".
However, as the Roman Empire declined, new invaders came to the island, namely the Saxons and Anglos from the more primitive Germanic peoples.
Finally, in 407 AD, the local garrison, under the command of a nobleman named Constantine, withdrew from the British Isles in an orderly manner.
At this time, the legendary King Arthur and his mages and warriors appeared.
Legend has it that King Arthur's father was the former King Uther, and that he was an illegitimate child raised and taught by the sorcerer Merlin from an early age. Merlin the Magician is free to change his appearance and age at will, but most of the time he shows himself as an old man. The two have a deep friendship.
After the death of King Usain, the bishop, at Merlin's suggestion, summoned all the noble knights to select the new king with a "sword of stone" inserted in the stone block of the church cemetery, and the inscription on the sword reads: "He who pulls out the sword in this stone is the king of England." This sword is known as the "Sword of Kings" sacred sword "Excalibur" (ancient Celtic for "broken steel").
However, no one could pull the sword out of the rock, except Arthur. As soon as his origins were revealed, he held the sword in the stone in his right hand, and was elected king of England.
Under King Arthur's reign, Britain prospered unprecedentedly, and Arthur also met his own Miss Right, Guinevere, while his father-in-law gave King Arthur a huge round table as a dowry, which is the "Round Table" in the famous "Knights of the Round Table".
The round table represents "equality" and "unity", and legend has it that King Arthurian's knights reached 150 at most, and the knights charged on the battlefield and discussed state affairs at the round table, although they also had differences and factions, but only at the round table there was no distinction between kings and subjects, and everyone was allowed to speak freely.
During The reign of King Arthur, at a time when the Roman Empire collapsed and the Germanic Saxons invaded en masse, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table led the people of Britain in a revolt, defeating the enemy through twelve battles and finally at the Battle of Patton Hill, driving out all foreign invaders from Britain.
In the minds of the British, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table were symbols of justice and hope. In that barbaric and dark era, it was this group of heroes who drove out strong enemies with bravery and strength, leading the Britons to find the light, and today, the Knights of the Round Table are no longer just a historical term, but synonymous with "heroism", "loyalty" and "trust".
Legend has it that after King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table defeated the Saxons, they began their journey to find the Holy Grail, which was finally found after countless difficulties and obstacles.
Lancelot was one of the most famous Knights of the Round Table, and legend has it that he was raised by the fairies of the lake, not only handsome and tall, but also gentle and considerate, strong in martial arts, heroic and good at war, so King Arthur appointed Lancelot as the queen's bodyguard.
However, the dog blood plot in the film and television drama begins, King Arthur's half-sister Lady Morgan uses ecstasy to make King Arthur see her as Guinevere, and once in the spring, Morgan became pregnant with the child of King Arthur's bloodline, King Arthur is both the uncle and the father of this child - what is the british generational division! This bastard was Mordred, who later rebelled and brought the kingdom to an end.
Coincidentally, Queen Guinevere witnessed all this, so she became resentful, just like Duan Yu's knife Bai Feng, and found someone to bring a hat to Arthur, and this object was Lancelot Knight.
After the matter was revealed, King Arthur burned Guinea at the stake under pressure, but Lancelot, who had always been in love with the queen, robbed the court to save the beauty, the two fled across the sea to France, under the mediation of the Pope, Lancelot returned Guinevere, although Guinevere was willing to be a nun to atone for her sins, but the angry King Arthur decided to personally enlist France to take revenge on Lancelot.
But this expedition to Lancelot gave the illegitimate son Modred a good opportunity to usurp the throne.
Mordred, who remained in prison, spread rumors that King Arthur had died in battle, and wanted to marry Guinevere (what a dog blood plot!). After hearing the news, King Arthur hurried back to Britain, and finally the two sides fought a decisive battle at Kamran, and finally in the confrontation between the two, King Arthur stabbed Mordred with a spear in his hand, penetrating the latter's body, and Mordred also used all his strength to slash At The head of King Arthur with his sword in both hands as he was dying.
When King Arthur woke up, he found that the contrarian son was dead, and the knights of the Round Table had almost all been killed, leaving only one knight, Bedwell, who asked Bedwell to throw the sword into the lake and eventually died.
When Guinevere learned of King Arthur's departure, she decided to repent in the monastery for the rest of her life.
Lancelot returned to England to see Guinevere, but the determined Guinevera refused to see her, and the disheartened Lancelot eventually became a monk, ending the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
There was also a King Arthur movie about the Romans, and Arthur and his companions, who were mercenaries, fought for the natives of England.
Who was King Arthur? Is there such a person in history?
The answer is that there is no such person. Or there may be an archetype, but there is no Arthur Buddha-figure.
According to research, "King Arthur" may have been a small chief of the Celts, and the so-called Round Table warriors who rallied around him may have been just a group of mercenaries.
In the Celtic war against the Saxons, the Saxons raised the banner of religion and encroached on the British Isles with the support of the Catholic Church, and the originally clear national war gradually evolved into a religious war.
Just as the departure of the legendary chief magician Merlin led to the decline of King Arthur, when the Catholic priest replaced the druid wizard known as the "Son of the Forest" in Britain, the divided Britons eventually defeated the Great Wall of Harryan, and the former farms of the Roman Empire in southern Britain eventually became the arena of the Germanic-Saxon gladiators, just as the era of the Seven Kingdoms strife in the song of "Ice and Fire" followed.
It will also lead to the appearance of robin Hood, the second person in our no-man series.
Text | Big Peng between the clouds
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