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Of scenes from the Legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table many lovely pictures have been painted, showing much diversity of figures and

surroundings, some being definitely sixth-century British or Saxon, as in Blair Leighton’s fine painting of the dead Elaine; others—for example, Watts’ Sir

Galahad—show knight and charger in fifteenth-century armour; while the warriors of Burne Jones wear strangely impracticable armour of some mystic

period. Each of these painters was free to follow his own conception, putting the figures into whatever period most appealed to his imagination; for he was

not illustrating the actual tales written by Sir Thomas Malory, otherwise he would have found himself face to face with a difficulty.

King Arthur and his knights fought, endured, and toiled in the sixth century, when the Saxons were overrunning Britain; but their achievements were not

chronicled by Sir Thomas Malory until late in the fifteenth century.

Sir Thomas, as Froissart has done before him, described the habits of life, the dresses, weapons, and armour that his own eyes looked upon in the every-day

scenes about him, regardless of the fact that almost every detail mentioned was something like a thousand years too late.

Had Malory undertaken an account of the landing of Julius Caesar he would, as a matter of course, have protected the Roman legions with bascinet or salade,

breastplate, pauldron and palette, coudiere, taces and the rest, and have armed them with lance and shield, jewel-hilted sword and slim misericorde; while

the Emperor himself might have been given the very suit of armour stripped from the Duke of Clarence before his fateful encounter with the butt of malmsey.

Did not even Shakespeare calmly give cannon to the Romans and suppose every continental city to lie majestically beside the sea? By the old writers,

accuracy in these matters was disregarded, and anachronisms were not so much tolerated as unperceived.

In illustrating this edition of “The Legends of King Arthur and his Knights,” it has seemed best, and indeed unavoidable if the text and the pictures are to tally,

to draw what Malory describes, to place the fashion of the costumes and armour somewhere about A.D. 1460, and to arm the knights in accordance with the

Tabard Period.

After Uther Pendragon’s death Merlin the magician forms a stone and in it a sword. On this sword it is written that anyone who can pull it out of the stone will

become the new King of England. After many years the young Arthur, secretly the son of Uther Pendragon, pulls the sword out of the stone and becomes

King. Together with Merlin he constructs a round table at which only the best knights of England may sit.[3] More and more knights come to join the

brotherhood of the Round Table, and each has his own adventures.[3]

Eventually the holy knight Sir Galahad, the son of Sir Lancelot, comes to Arthur's court. With his coming all the knights ride throughout Europe in search of

the Holy Grail of Jesus Christ. Only four knights see the Grail: Sir Lancelot, Sir Percival, Sir Bors de Gaunnes and Sir Galahad.[3]

After the Grail is found the last battle of the Knights of the Round Table is fought. In this battle many knights die, and with them King Arthur, Sir Gawain, who

is Arthur's nephew, and [Mordred]], the wicked son of King Arthur and his half-sister Morgana le Fay.[3] King Arthur is buried in Avalon, a secret island.[3]