The Story of King Arthur is full of knightly encounters, valorous deeds, and acts of courtesy and can therefore touch everybody’s imagination.
The story of King Arthur began in Wales in the fifth century and is one of the oldest legends of the British Isles. There are some doubts about how much in this story is true and how much due to the imagination. It is admitted that in those years there was a Celtic king named Arthur who was a noble sovereign who added glory to the Celtic race.
King Arthur became the ideal sovereign of the Britons and they enriched him with every noble trait which could be borrowed from the lives of their heroes.
It is the purpose of this first volume to relate the fascinating story of King Arthur’s happy reign and the many valiant deeds of himself and his knights.