Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table
Andrew Lang
Lu par David Wales
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens… It is believed that King Arthur lived in the sixth century, just after the Romans withdrew from Britain… the stories came to be handed down from father to son, in Brittany (whose people are of the same family as the Welsh) as well as in Wales and England… [story-tellers altered the stories to suit their times down through the centuries] …and so in their altered and historically inaccurate form they have reached us at the present day. …Sir Thomas Malory obtained the material for his “Morte d’Arthur,” which was written in 1470. This is the most famous of the early books of Arthurian legend, and it is from the “Morte d’Arthur” that most of the stories in this book are taken…. The language throughout has been modified with a view to making the legends more easy of study. - Summary by Book Introduction and david wales (4 hr 18 min)
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All LibriVox audiobooks are recorded exactly as written - not edited or abridged in any way. This particular book was published in 1918, and so I'm afraid the author is long dead, and cannot make the corrections you require. The mention of England comes from the introduction to the book, which was part of the Longman's Class Book series of English Literature and intended (and probably simplified) for school-children. They were quite well-received at the time.
A LibriVox Listener
Well read, but the misogyny of the tale grates. Still the story is the story.
Interesting tale - descently read
Berserkur
Interesting narrative but quite anachronistic and much in favor of Roman Catholicism.