Overhead Notes from 9/4

You have three minutes.

Take out a blank sheet of paper in notes.

This is not a quiz. Or a test. Or anything bad. ;)

You have three minutes – list everything you know about King Arthur/or the Arthurian legend. Go!

·       He was a kingà Artorius, 5^th C. king of the Britons (Brunanburgh) uniting the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes

·       Legend – he pulled the sword from the stone. He was the only one who could do it! Fated to become king.

·       Merlin (wizard/magician/sorcerer) à Druid, advisor to Arthur

·       Arthur is betrayed by Lancelot (Knight of the Round Table)à known as “the knight of the cart”

·       The round table? No one at the head of the table. Everyone is equal when they sit down together.

o  MEDIEVAL ESTATE

§  Men who work

§  Men who fight

§  Men who pray

Guinevere  - “gentle queen”

Arthur is symbolic of Christ.

EPIC and ROMANCE