Posted By BillHeise on July 11, 2010

This just in: they have found King Arthur’s Round Table. Silly me. I had always thought that it was just a myth, but world-renowned King Arthur expert Chris Gidlow, who’s written a book entitled The Reign of Arthur, said: “The first accounts of the Round Table show that it was nothing like a dining table but was a venue for upwards of 1,000 people at a time.”

He goes on to say

“In the 6th Century, a monk named Gildas, who wrote the earliest account of Arthur’s life, referred to both the City of Legions and to a martyr’s shrine within it. That is the clincher. The discovery of the shrine within the amphitheatre means that Chester was the site of Arthur’s court and his legendary Round Table.”

Of course, he also says in his book (page xi) :

Did this King Arthur really exist? Almost certainly not. He was defined by writers of romance fiction in the twelfth century and refined through the Middle Ages. He inhabited a fabulous world based on that of his medieval audience.

Someone’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.

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