The Villain: Was King Arthur Real Or Real?

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King Arthur was known as many different things. Some people believed he was a medieval, mythological figure who was the head of the kingdom. Others believe he was a fearless legend. The king's entire life is in the book “The History of the Kings of Britain” from beginning to end. The evidence that King Arthur was a real human is very low, people don't really believe that he was real. There is many different books that have different evidence that Arthur was real & fake.

The people that believe he did exist think he was a single person or multiple people in one figure with different powers and influence. Some say he could be a Dark Age warrior of the Celts, which would be where his mythical talent and skill would have came from. The name Arthur itself appears to derive from the Celtic word “Art”. Arthur could be like the many other Celtic gods and be the offspring of a human and a bear. Many of the Celtic gods had associations with the great bear.

Some theorists claim Arthur was a late addition to the Celtic pantheon during a resurgence in pagan worship, or possibly a mythical hero. There's not much physical evidence that any of this is true. Some research says he was a warrior , knight and a king
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I think that would be hard or impossible to find other evidence to find that the written stories are true. The things the historians believe to be true, like King Arthur leading mobs to kill witches and giants makes us not want to completely believe the tales since giants and witches are mystical themselves. Whether or not King Arthur is real is a question of if the tales are exaggerated or if the tales are a combination of different rulers throughout history. The name itself makes us think about an extreme and strong ruler. King Arthur means this because of the tales and stories

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