Tales of King Arthur and The Round Table by Andrew Lang on Free Audio Book Download

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 opensвЂ¦ It is believed that King Arthur lived in the sixth century, just after the Romans withdrew from BritainвЂ¦ 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 EnglandвЂ¦ [story-tellers altered the stories to suit their times down through the centuries] вЂ¦and so in their altered and historically inaccurate form they have reached us at the present day. вЂ¦Sir Thomas Malory obtained the material for his вЂњMorte dвЂ™Arthur,вЂќ which was written in 1470. This is the most famous of the early books of Arthurian legend, and it is from the вЂњMorte dвЂ™ArthurвЂќ that most of the stories in this book are takenвЂ¦. The language throughout has been modified with a view to making the legends more easy of study.