 Retellings and reimaginings of the romance tradition are not the only important aspect of the modern legend of King Arthur.Attempts to portray Arthur as a genuine historical figure of , stripping away the "romance", have also emerged.As Taylor and Brewer have noted, this return to the medieval "chronicle tradition" of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the "Historia Brittonum" is a recent trend which became dominant in Arthurian literature in the years following the outbreak of the Second World War, when Arthur's legendary resistance to Germanic enemies struck a chord in Britain.