can someone plz give me 10 unusual facts about king arthur?

He didn't actually exist so there are no actual facts about him.

1) There can be no hard facts about a legendary character.

2) Wales believes that he is sleepin and will arise to save the Principality.

3) In 830AD Nennius wrote Historia Brittonum. It included a list of Arthur's battles one of which he located at 'The City Of The Legion' - this could well be Caerleon.

4) Geoffrey Of Monmouth wrote about King Arthur's court at Caerleon.

5)Arthur was the first born son of King Uther Pendragon but on the advice of Merlin, was brought up in a secret location.

6) Arthur's main foes were the Saxons who were slowly taking over Britain after the Romans left.

7) King Arthur's Knights were also on a quest for the holy grail.

8) Arthur and his Knights upheld the code of chivalry.

9) European writers added to the legend and brought in new dimensions to the tale.

10) It was the French poet Maistre Wace who added the detail of the Round Table.

There is almost no history of the 5th/6th century in Britain. Mostly we have references in chronicles and other documents written centuries later.

Accordingly, historians disagree very much even over whether Arthur even existed. So there are no “facts” at all about Arthur, much less “10 facts”.

The battle of Badon(Badonicus) is mentioned in Gildas. See http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gi... . This is the sole piece of writing from 5th/6th century Britain and does not mention Arthur. But Gildas mentions few names, so that proves nothing. However some scholars ascribe the Battle of Badonicus to Ambrosius Aurelianus or to unknown leaders, and think that the ascription to the legendary Arthur was only made later.

The finding of Arthur's body at Glastonbury is usually considered to be a monkish forgery. But that can’t be “proved”. The identification of the fairy isle of Avalon with Glastonbury would be part of that forgery. The mention of the “vaus d’Avaron” (“vales of Avalon”) in Robert de Boron’s “Joseph of Arimathea” was usually considered to be a reference to Glastonbury predating the supposed find of Arthur’s body. It was considered important that the text refers to “vales” not “isle”. However Robert de Boron was a Burgundian, and it is now recognized that it is just as possible, perhaps more probable, that the reference is to the town of Avallon in Burgundy.

Note also that in this romance, Joseph himself remains in the Middle-east, unlike later accounts.

The Round Table is also probably a later invention. The ancient Celts did not normally eat at tables, but ate sitting around a central hearth. There was originally not even a word for table in Welsh. The modern word is “bwrd” and is borrowed from Old English “bord” meaning “board”. A table was just a board laid on trestles. Compare the modern phrase “room and board”.

Some story teller may have described Arthur's men setting in a circle when eating, and some hearers who could not imagine eating without a table, imagined the Round Table.

See http://www.heroicage.net/issues/1/halac.... or the theory that the legendary Arthur was actually Lucius Artorius Castus of the second century.

See http://www.britannia.com/history/arthur/... for various quotes by supposed historians about Arthur.

So what are these “basic facts” that you know? The medieval tales themselves disagree on many points and scholars disagree on whether any of the accounts in these tales or other mentions are historical.

Jallan 2 weeks ago

he was gay, left handed and wanked using a pair of tongs!

http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Movies/King-Arthur-144...

http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/king-arthur.htm

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200901...

http://www.britannia.com/history/h12.html