"Shi Hai Shen Hook Phase X: The beginning and end of King Arthur's biography" - Author: The stars have fallen

"Arthurian Biography", this is a very famous fairy tale nature, more than a hundred years ago can be said to be a household name, I believe that readers who are reading this magazine, even if they have not read the original article, must have heard the name of "Arthurian Biography".

Although the biography of King Arthur seems to be a bit old-fashioned today, it still focuses on the dualistic worldview of good and evil, Gosamodo is a country of justice, and Laventica is almost a country of evil, praising nobility and knights, focusing on individuals and martial arts, but it cannot be denied that the book had unparalleled lethality in that era.

The "too much emphasis on the dualism of good and evil" that I mentioned earlier depends on the comparison with what era, and of course it is "too much emphasis on the dualism of good and evil" in the eyes of today's readers, but for those readers who can only read the poetry of troubadours in the past, this book is incomparably shocking.

Think about it, Lancelot, who was originally a good guy on King Arthur's side, but finally betrayed King Arthur because of love, Bedwell, who was originally a lackey of Anghow VI, but was inspired by King Arthur's justice and betrayed Angerway VI, the protagonist is not always victorious, and the ending is not a family carnival, which is all epoch-making plots at the time.

And in the past troubadour, there has never been such a close combination of the background of the time as King Arthur, and the history of the time has been combined into the poem - so there has always been a saying that the "Biography of King Arthur" was written by the royal literati of the Merochou family, otherwise ordinary troubadours would not dare to have such courage.

So in today's article, I want to introduce to you the beginning and end of this significant and controversial "Biography of King Arthur".

The first thing to introduce is the life of the protagonist of the "Biography of King Arthur", King Arthur, to be exact, Arthur I, the Grand Duke of Merochow, whose full name is "Flanders Arthur Sulven Merocchiu" (1648-1687/39).

For the person of Arthur I, it can be said that even without the "Biography of King Arthur" to blow it to him, this person's life is very legendary.

Arthur I, the nephew of the previous Grand Duke Chakju IV, did not attend the academy at an early age, but was cultivated alone by unknown ascetics – a situation that was very rare in ancient times, and he entered the academy in Madeira very late, and it took only 2 years to leave the academy as the best graduate of the year.

Not long after leaving the academy, Arthur married Gnavel, the daughter of the current king of Gosamodo, and then became the youngest Grand Duke of Merochau.

According to the available historical data, although Arthur I did not show much of a good level of governance in the territory, and even the financial situation of the duchy was still worrying, he was a well-known monarch and an excellent general, not only brilliant, but also full of creative colors, such as the Battle of Angard, the Battle of Vonachal, and the legendary Great March to the South, and finally his untimely death.

In terms of character and morality, Arthur I could not be criticized, and his treatment of the king of Gosamodor could almost be said to be extremely loyal, which was also very rare among the nobles of that era.

All of this gave Arthur I the value of being recorded in the biography in the form of a legend, which led to the "Biography of King Arthur" as we see it today.

It should be noted that "The Biography of King Arthur" is not the work of one person in one era, but after many revisions and deletions many times, it became the "Fifty Chapters" of "The Biography of King Arthur" that we see today.

So when was the original Biography of King Arthur written, and how large was the original book? It's hard to give a valid answer to this question.

When the news of Arthur's death in 1687 reached the country, the commoners of the principality were saddened, a judgment that can be seen in the report of the assistant teacher at the altar of Madeira to the priests. In this report, the teaching assistant mentions that when he was preaching recently, Arthur was the main concern of the common people, and many of them were heartbroken.

By 1690, it was already known from a letter from the magistrate to his family that the local tavern had spontaneously begun to promote Arthur, which said:

"A few days ago they just repeated the same old tune about how holy King Arthur was and how good he was to the common people, but these days they have begun to miss the great deeds that Arthur did when he was alive, and some clever troubadours have begun to sing Arthur into false and forged troubadours, and the response is not bad. ”

From this letter, we can see that at least three years after Arthur's death, someone began to compile Arthur's legend, and the later "Biography of King Arthur" undoubtedly absorbed a lot of information from these troubadours.

And what can be used as the real prototype of "Arthurian Biography" should be the 13 chapters of "Arthurian Biography" in the Homeless version. Homemah "Blind" (1656-1718/62), an early troubadour, was drafted into the peasant army after Gosamodo's participation in the Third East Coast War, and had the privilege of serving in Arthur's army.

Homer was forced to retire after losing his eyes in the war, but after losing his eyes, his eloquence became more agile, and he became one of the few great troubadours in Gosamodo, and the praise of King Arthur was Hohama's specialty, after all, he himself had met Arthur I.

After the war on the East Coast in 1711 was temporarily over and the environment was less tense, the people's demands for life were put on the agenda, because of the painful recovery period after the war, many civilians began to miss the good old days of King Arthur's rule, and Hohama seized this opportunity to begin to tell the story of King Arthur, which attracted many civilians to listen.

And stronger than the other contenders, Homer was the first troubadour to consciously combine the various legends about King Arthur over the years, which makes his story even more compelling. However, due to the increasing number of legends combined, Homer found that he could not finish it in one night, so he told the legends separately, and the chapters were born.

Of course, the chapter hui style is not a strange thing, for example, in Martin's "Thirty Thousand Miles to the South, I Return with Luhr", the chapter hui style is used, but the traces of the travel diary of that book are heavier than the traces, so Homer was the first troubadour to apply the chapter hui style to troubadour.

However, Homer never put together a biography of King Arthur into a system, and some sources show that every time Homer retells the legend of King Arthur, it will be slightly different.

After Homer's death in 1718, his daughter compiled the legend from memory into a real book of 13 chapters, which was published in 1721. This release caused a sensation throughout the East Coast, and became popular all over the three countries on the East Coast, and almost everyone must read King Arthur.

However, in the biography of King Arthur, as King Arthur's enemies, Anghow VI and Laventica, they were greatly stigmatized, so the Laventica authorities banned a book for the first time, banned the book in all Laventica, and forbade the Laventika people to watch it.

However, due to the decline of the central power of Laventica at that time, this ban did not have much effect, and in the territory of Laventica, it is still "everyone looks through King Arthur".

Some people may ask, doesn't this book vilify Laventica? Why does Laventika still rush to read it? Because the Laventika attacked in the book is only the Laventica army, and they have no feeling of hatred for the "southern Yankees," "Mengshi Lao," and "border guys" inside Laventica.

Not only that, but they were soon drawn in, and local troubadours were involved in compiling a biography of King Arthur, and they sang the praises of King Arthur.

Therefore, from the East Bank region to the Laventica region, all those involved in the compilation of biographies, they all have a common fire, that is, the army led by Angwu VI and Angwu VI. The north was black and the south was also black, and Angwu VI became the most famous tyrant of antiquity.

In addition, the biography of King Arthur compiled by the Laventika region has increased the proportion of the Laventika people in the story compared to the East Coast region, and the two most typical characters are Bedwell and Gahoris.

Now in chapter 50 of the Biography of King Arthur, it is said that Bedwell and Garhoris were the elite cultivated by Angvo VI - hell, where did Angvo VI have the kindness to raise the Southerners and the Hanssamen? This is undoubtedly where Ramensis and Lanahi later compiled.

Because of this, in today's "Biography of King Arthur", when it comes to people in the East Coast region, it is more in line with historical facts, but when it comes to characters in the Laventica region, it will be biased to places that my mother doesn't know.

Bedwell and Gahoris each give an example, the Biography of King Arthur says that Bedwell and King Arthur first met during the Battle of Angour, and Bedwell reminded King Arthur how to break Angerway VI's magic circle, but historically, Bedwell was nothing more than a Hansamenon mercenary until Arthur marched south.

And what about Gahoris? It was true that Gahoris flew to Deesdes, but after Gahoris had made a great achievement, he was pushed back to the south, instead of holding on to Wernachar and staying on the east coast until his death, as in the "Biography of King Arthur".

Since then, the legend of King Arthur has been divided into northern and southern factions, and various other interesting legends have been derived, such as Gawain's bet, Merlin's guardian, and so on.

But if there is no one, perhaps these legends will always be scattered legends, not the "Arthurian Biography" that is now systematic. So who is this man? He is Mallory.

Malori spent thirty years collecting Arthurian legends from the East Coast to the Reventica, which were eventually combined into the 50 chapters of Arthurian Biography that we see today.

Because the Biography of King Arthur is known as a watershed in the history of literature between troubadour and popularity, Malory is also known as the father of popularity, and became a heroic spirit because of popularity.

The above is the beginning and end of the book "King Arthur's Biography".

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