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Lord Alfred Tennyson was also keen on the idea of Excalibur being found in and returned to a Cumbrian lake. He was inspired to write the description of King Arthur’s final journey and the return of the sword to the water when staying at Mirehouse, overlooking Bassenthwaite. The Round Table

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Michael's books have been translated into many languages including Chinese, Bulgarian and Hungarian, Hebrew and Japanese. He travels all over the UK and abroad talking to people of all ages at literary festivals, telling his stories and encouraging them to tell theirs. Main article: Constantine (British saint) Saint Constantine's Church in Constantine, Cornwall, perhaps connected to the historical king of Dumnonia

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Taylor, Beverly; Brewer, Elisabeth (1983). The Return of King Arthur. Boydell & Brewer. p.303. ISBN 0859911365 . Retrieved 7 July 2014. The book depicts TWO one-night-stands that result in a surprise pregnancy -- it is described subtly enough that young children won't understand what was going on. A son and grandson of actors, Michael has acting in his blood and enjoys collaborating and performing live adaptations of his books at festivals, concerts and theatres. I had the best time reading this story and the characters were truly incredible! I truly adored Gawain and Arthur's faithful dog, Bercelet the most

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The Annales Cambriae ( Welsh Annals) and the Annals of Ulster record the conversion of a certain Constantine; these may be a reference to the Cornish saint and therefore to the historical figure. [9] Several subsequent religious texts refer to Constantine, generally associating him with Cornwall, often specifically as its king. The Life of Saint David says that Constantine, King of Cornwall, gave up his crown and joined Saint David's monastery at Menevia. The Vitae Petroci includes an episode in which Saint Petroc protects a stag being hunted by a wealthy man named Constantine, who eventually converts and becomes a monk. Here Constantine is not said to be king, but a 12th-century text referring to this story, the Miracula, specifically names him as such, further adding that upon his conversion he gave Petroc an ivory horn that became one of the saint's chief relics. [10] A number of other traditions attested across Britain describe saints or kings named Constantine, suggesting a confusion and conflation of various figures. [11] Michael Morpurgo has thrilled and delighted huge numbers of young readers since becoming a children’s author in the early 1970s," Wood said. "Action for Children’s Arts is delighted to recognise Michael’s outstanding contribution by presenting him with the J M Barrie Award 2016. His work will undoubtedly, like Peter Pan, stand the test of time, making him a truly worthy recipient of this award." Thompson, Raymond H.; Lacy, Norris J. (2013). "Games". In Lacy, Norris K. (ed.). The New Arthurian Encyclopedia. Routledge. p.590. ISBN 978-1136606335 . Retrieved 4 February 2013.Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments

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Geoffrey of Monmouth (2007). Huber, Emily Rebekah (ed.). "Arthur from the Vita Merlini". d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot-project. The Camelot Project, University of Rochester . Retrieved 8 July 2014. And I felt this was a tale about family, friendships, betrayal, lost love, revenge, forgiveness and faith. It had epic battles, magic, and loads of adventure!

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If I had been on that beach at the beginning, I would have grabbed the nameless boy and been like "Hey, don't follow that bell sound! There's a long-winded, self-centered old man waiting for you who claims to be the high king of Britain but is actually just a jerk, and he'll talk your ear off and bore us all if he finds you." Vargas Díaz-Toledo, Aurelio (2006). "Os livros de cavalarias renascentistas nas histórias da literatura portuguesa" (PDF). Peninsula: Revista de Estudos Ibéricos (in Portuguese). 3: 233–247 . Retrieved 4 November 2014.

This is mostly a fairly straight retelling of the Arthurian stories from within a conventional framework of a boy stumbling on Arthur's resting place and being told the stories he remembers. There was something different about this, though -- Arthur seems fairly, well, human. Normally Arthur is so very good, so very forgiving, that he can't really be true. This Arthur doesn't seem turned out of the usual mould, which is both refreshing and disappointing, in a way. As stated elsewhere, I have read a bit on these myths before and it does appear to be a mixture of different versions of the legends. It feels like the Author clearly has researched this and used it to place his own thumb print on it and despite the hinting of sex and voilence (which I have seen mentioned elsewhere) is a great introduction to the Arthur legends. In Geoffrey, Arthur passes his crown to his relative Constantine after being mortally wounded by the traitor Mordred in the Battle of Camlann. Geoffrey identifies Gildas' "royal youths" as Mordred's two sons, who, along with their Saxon allies, continue their father's insurrection after his death. After "many battles" Constantine routs the rebels, and Mordred's sons flee to London and Winchester, where they hide in a church and a friary, respectively. Constantine hunts them down and executes them before the altars of their sanctuaries. Divine retribution for this transgression comes three years later when Constantine is killed by his nephew Aurelius Conanus (Gildas' Aurelius Caninus), precipitating a civil war. He is buried at Stonehenge alongside other kings of Britain. [18] Bromwich, pp. 318–319, discusses the confusion of some of these various Constantines. Notable in the context of "Saint" Constantine is Custennin Vendigeit (The Blessed), the name for the historical usurper Constantine III in the Welsh Triads.