King Arthur's Britain

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King Arthur's Britain is the legendary medieval realm of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, often depicted as a chivalric and mythical version of early Britain.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Arthurian Britain 7
King Arthur’s Britain 2
Arthur’s Britain 1

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arthurian setting
legendary realm
mythical place
associatedWith King Arthur's court
surface form: Camelot

Excalibur
Queen Guinevere
surface form: Guinevere

Holy Grail
King Arthur
King Arthur's court
surface form: Knights of the Round Table

Merlin
Mordred
Morgan le Fay
Gawain
surface form: Sir Gawain

Sir Lancelot
describedIn Arthurian legend
Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian romances
Historia Regum Britanniae
surface form: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae

Matter of Britain
Le Morte d'Arthur
surface form: Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur
hasCapital King Arthur's court
surface form: Camelot
hasCenter King Arthur's court
surface form: Camelot
hasCulturalOrigin British folklore
Celtic tradition
medieval European literature
hasGovernmentForm chivalric court
monarchy
hasInstitution King Arthur's court
surface form: Round Table
hasLanguageContext Middle English literature
Old French
surface form: Old French literature

Welsh literature
hasLocationContext Great Britain
surface form: Britain

Logres (legendary kingdom)
hasMythicElement enchanted lake
faerie otherworld
Excalibur
surface form: magical sword Excalibur
hasReligiousContext Christianity (legendary)
hasRuler King Arthur
hasTheme Christian symbolism
chivalry
courtly love
heroic quests
tragic downfall
hasTimePeriod early medieval Britain (legendary)
sub-Roman Britain
surface form: sub-Roman Britain (legendary)
hasUncertainHistoricBasis true
influenced British national mythology
medieval chivalric ideals
modern fantasy literature
representedAs golden age of knighthood
idealized kingdom of justice

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Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hank Morgan setting King Arthur's Britain
this entity surface form: King Arthur’s Britain
Hank Morgan transportedTo King Arthur's Britain
this entity surface form: Arthurian Britain
Bertilak de Hautdesert setIn King Arthur's Britain
this entity surface form: Arthurian Britain
Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian romances setting King Arthur's Britain
this entity surface form: Arthurian Britain
The Yankee setInKingdom King Arthur's Britain
this entity surface form: King Arthur’s Britain
Logres (legendary kingdom) equatedWith King Arthur's Britain
subject surface form: Logres
this entity surface form: Arthur’s Britain
Sir Geraint setting King Arthur's Britain
this entity surface form: Arthurian Britain
Enide settingOfStory King Arthur's Britain
this entity surface form: Arthurian Britain
The Mists of Avalon settingPeriod King Arthur's Britain
this entity surface form: Arthurian Britain
Lucan the Butler setting King Arthur's Britain
this entity surface form: Arthurian Britain