Introduction

This is the most popular theme which later English poetry derived from medieval legend and that can be also included in the oral traditional literature:

-         King Arthur, Guinevere, the Knights- Lancelot, Gawain, Perceval…

King Arthur is said to be a British King about whom there are many doubts and many contradictory aspects. Genealogies and elements from his life and environment are different or do not coincide.

According to the tradition he was Uther’s and Igraine’s son. Arthur got married to Guinevere always finding near to him some invincible knights such as the ones mentioned before. Traditions also talk about a magician called Merlin and all of them agree introducing Mordred as Arthur’s main enemy. King Arthur also appears near Excalibur which is the name of a very significant sword. King Arthur’s knights achieve many deeds on his benefit and one of them it was the search of the Holy Grail.

Next to the Round Table Knights it appears this Holy Grail which is an spiritual adventure and also a search of power.