With his coming, all the knights ride throughout Europe in search of the Holy Grail of Jesus Christ.

Įventually, the holy knight Galahad, the son of Sir Lancelot, comes to Arthur's court. More and more knights come to join the brotherhood of the Round Table, and each has his own adventures. With the guidance of Merlin, he constructs a round table, at which only the best knights of Britain may sit. No knight can remove the sword from the anvil.Īfter many years, the young Arthur, secretly the son of Uther Pendragon, pulls the sword out of the stone. A sword, stuck fast to an anvil, in turn on top of a marble stone, appears. On Christmas Day, Merlin the magician gathers many knights outside a church. Uther Pendragon, king of Britons, and defender of Britain against the Saxons has died. He drew from many other medieval sources, but mainly Malory, particularly so in the last section of the book.

Green attempted to tell a cohesive story with beginning, middle, and end. Thinking that Malory's work was more of a loose collection of separate stories. Green set out to weave together the many legends surrounding King Arthur into a single narrative. In 2008, it was reissued in the Puffin Classics series with an introduction by David Almond (the award-winning author of Clay, Skellig, Kit's Wilderness, and The Fire-Eaters), and the original illustrations by Lotte Reiniger. It was first published by Puffin Books in 1953 and has since been reprinted many times. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table is a retelling of the Arthurian legends, principally Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, by Roger Lancelyn Green.

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