king arthur

was a legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries, who, according to Medieval histories and romances, led the defense of Romano-Celtic Britain against Arthur's name also occurs in early poetic sources such as Y  Gododdin.the ledganry Arthur developed as a figure of ententional intrest largely through  the popriality off georffer monmouthsfanciful and imaginative 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain).^[4] Some Welsh and Breton tales and poems relating the story of Arthur date from earlier than this work; in these works, Arthur appears either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn.^[5] How much of Geoffrey's Historia (completed in 1138) was adapted from such earlier sources, rather than invented by Geoffrey himself, is unknown. Although the themes, events and characters of the Arthurian legend varied widely from text to text, and there is no one canonical version, Geoffrey's version of events often served as the