What is King Arthur?
[[File:Artus2.jpg|thumb|Statue of King Arthur, [[Hofkirche, Innsbruck]], designed by [[Albrecht Dürer]] and cast by [[Peter Vischer the Elder]], in 1520s]] '''King Arthur''' was a [[legend|mythical]] [[king]] in the [[mythology]] of [[Great Britain]]. He lived in the [[Middle Ages|medieval times]], in his famous [[castle]], [[Camelot]]. He possessed a [[sword]] known as [[Excalibur]], given to him by the [[Lady of the Lake]]. King Arthur is a fabled ruler of [[Sub-Roman Britain]] who defended his [[kingdom]] from the [[Anglo-Saxons]]. He is a [[Popular culture|popular]] [[fictional character]] in modern [[literature]]. He won several [[battle]]s, and had many homes. However, his favorite home was in [[Camelot]]. In one of the most famous tales of King Arthur, he pulls a sword out of a [[stone]], making him King of the [[Briton]]s. [[File:Sir Mordred by H. J. Ford, from King Arthur- The Tales of the Round Table by Andrew Lang, 1902.jpg|thumb|right|[[Mordred]], Arthur's final foe according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, illustrated by [[Henry Justice Ford|H. J. Ford]] (1902)]] [[File:History of the Kings (f.75.v) King Arthur.jpg|thumb|King Arthur. A crude illustration from a 15th-century Welsh language version of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae]] The first narrative account of Arthur's life is found in [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]'s Latin work ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' (''History of the Kings of Britain''), completed {{c.|lk=no|1138}}.<ref>Thorpe, Lewis, ed. 1966. ''Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain''. Harmondsworth: Penguin.</ref><ref>Loomis, Roger Sherman 1956. ''The Arthurian legend before 1139''. In Loomis, Roger Sherman ''Wales and the Arthurian legend''. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 179–220,</ref> == Camelot == Many castles claim to be Arthur's Camelot, but the most likely one is [[Tintagel Castle]], [[Cornwall]] (though there is no evidence for this<ref>Thomas, Charles 1993. ''Tintagel: Arthur and archaeology''. London: Batsford/English Heritage. {{ISBN|978