The hero of earlier times became the man of romance in Middle English literature (1150-1485). The name of King Arthur became a symbol of English history for many centuries. The sstory of
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is the greatest national myth in English. There was probably a real King Arthur around the year 500; about 200 years later the story begins to appear in the spoken tradition with characters such as the magician Merlin, Guinevere and Lancelot. The sword in the stone (Excalibur) and the Holy Grail also became part of the Arthurian legend.
A children's story The Sword in the Stone was filmed by Walt Disney.
A successful film about King Arthur was filmed in the 1980s: Excalibur (Excalibur is the sword in the stone which only the hero can pull out)
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