C.S. Lewis and King Arthur

C.S. Lewis and King Arthur

The earliest mention of Arthur comes from the British monk Gildas. Except it’s not really a reference at all: he doesn’t actually mention Arthur by name. In his work ‘The Ruin of Britain,’ circa 540, Gildas simply mentions a British victory against Saxon invaders at Mount Badon.
Gildas does not say who led the British to their victory at that specific battle, but he does name a British leader, Ambrosius Aurelianus who defeats the Saxons in other battles. The British monk Bede, when he repeats the story in 731, added further details and names to Gildas’s account, but still does not mention anyone called Arthur. However, in the 820s, Nenninus – you guessed it, a British monk – writes about ‘the magnanimous Arthur’, who ‘fought against the Saxons […] with all the kings and military force of Britain’.

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