The quote I picked is the very first sentence of the "Who Was Arthur?" section on page 8 of Snyder's The World of King Arthur. The sentence is, "Well, to begin with, there was not one Arthur, but many." I find this quote so interesting because in my opinion, it is absolutely fascinating that the existence of such a famous character could be in question for centuries. Remarkably, this is actually the case with multiple historical figures such as Robin Hood, Ragnar Lodbrook, and even the ancient hero Beowulf. The fact that these characters, and specifically King Arthur, are so famous and so larger-than-life that the stories on them split from reality and then into hundreds of other stories and then merge and form one again is, quite honestly, amazing.
There aren't any Many-Faced God pictures so...
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