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"Before the elaborate tales of chivalry and romance with which the epic of King Arthur remains associated (best known in the form in which Thomas Malory compiled them a thousand years after Arthur's time), there were other tales, by turns brutal, dark and amusing. These stories were told by wandering Celtic bards and presented an altogether more savage figure than the familiar high king with his round table of noble knights. Leading Arthurian scholar...