The king who touched kings

The quotation I found most impactful while reading was "The Arthurian legends were never merely entertainment, however. By the late twelfth century Arthur, the symbol of British resistance against the English (the Anglo-Saxons), was adopted by the Norman conquerers of the English. The Angevin-Norman Plantagenet dynasty in the succeeding two centuries provided great patronage to Arthurian writers, and even claimed to have excavated the graves of Arthur and Guinevere at Glastonbury." (Snyder, Ch. 1, Pg. 16) I feel like this quote and the previous sentence about the weight that Henry VIII put into the Arthur myths best illustrate how historically and culturally impactful the myths were, even far before modern history. The myth intertwines itself in German, French, British, English and Norman culture and directly impacted major historical events, which blew my mind to learn. 

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Source: Snyder, Christopher A. The world of King Arthur. Thames & Hudson, 2011.