KING ARTHUR

UTHER AND IGRAINE (chapter 1)

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Uther was a king who fell in love with a beautiful girl named Igraine, but she didn´t fell the same. Then Merlin the magician made a pact with him, if Igraine married him, they should give his son to Merlin.
Years passed and Arthur was born.
Merlin gave Arthur a good knight to take care of him.

THE STONE (chapter 1)

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Sir Hector was Arthur´s "father", so he took him to london with his other sons to witness a knight battle.
London was left without a king after the death of Uther.
There was a stone with a sword stuck, whoever could pull it out, would be the new king.

ARTHUR (chapter 1)

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For many years knights from all over England tried to draw the sword, but it was impossible.
Until Arthur got it and became the new king.
His life changed completely

ARTHUR AND GUINEVERE (chapter 2)

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Guinevere was the daughter of a friend of King Arthur. She was very beautiful. Arthur sent a knight (Lancelot) to take Guinevere to Camelot to marry her.

THE ROUND TABLE (chapter 2)

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Merlin and Arthur form the Round Table with 150 places on it.
In this table will be the best knights of King Arthur.

QUEEN ANNOURE (chapter 3)

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Arturo went round the country on his horse.
She came to a beautiful forest, where there was a castle, Queen Annoure's castle, she wanted King Arthur to stay there with her, but Arthur didn´t want.
Queen Annoure threatened to kill King Arthur if he did not stay.
The queen told Sir Pellinore (a knight at the round table) that an evil knight was on his way to King Arthur's castle, and ordered him to fight with him. Sir Pellinore finally realized that he was their king and did not kill him.

EXCALIBUR (chapter 3)

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Sir Pellinore hurt King Arthur, so Merlin went to visit him.
Merlin took him to a lake, in the center of the lake there was a sword (Excalibur), "go and take it" said Merlin. The sword was inside a scabbard, a magic scabbard that would protect him, and no one could harm him.

MORGAN LE FAY (chapter 4)

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Morgan fay was an evil queen, who used magic to do bad things.
King Arthur thought she was a friend of royalty, so one day when he went hunting he left Excalibur in the hands of Morgan Le Fay.
Queen Morgan Le Fay gave the sword to Sir Accolon, and told him to go fight Sir Damas, but it would not be Sir Damas, it would be King Arthur, because Morgan Le Fay wanted to kill him.

WITH THE NUNS (chapter 4)

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Morgan Le Fay, learned that King Arthur was not dead, and went asking knights where he was.
One day a knight told her that he was with the nuns, and Morgan Le Fay went to visit him.
When she arrived, the nuns would not let her see him, but she insisted.
King Arthur was asleep and she took the opportunity to take Excalibur again.

VIVIEN AND MERLIN (chapter 5)

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Merlin told King Arthur that he was close to dying, and his magic could no longer help him.
Vivien was a young magician who lived with the lady of the lake and had learned a lot of magic with her. Vivien put Merlin in a cave from which he could not leave, because she wanted to be the most powerful magician in the world.

SIR MELIGRANCE (chapter 6)

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It was the month of May and Queen Guinevere went to enjoy the beautiful day with her knights and ladies.
Suddenly, Sir Meligrance appeared, he wanted to take the Queen because he was in love with her. They all went with Sir Meligrance, but the queen sent one of her men to camelot to avise th King.

LANCELOT (chapter 6)

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The queen's knight told Lancelot what had happened, Lancelot quickly went to save the queen.
Sir Meligrance saw the Lancelot before it arrived, and asked Queen Geneva for forgiveness.
Sir Meligrance, who was afraid that Lancelot would tell the king everything, locked him in a room from which he could not escape, but when he marched with the queen to Camelot, a lady from Sir Meligrance released Lancelot.
When Lancelot reached Camelot, he killed Sir Meligrance.

SIR TRISTRAM (chapter 7)

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One day, the King of Lyonesse made a trip that he did not know how to return, his wife had a son alone, she called him Tristram, and soon the Queen died.
With the passage of time, the king remarried, the new queen loved the king but hated Tristram, so she tried to kill him with poison, but instead of tristram her son drank it and died.
The queen tried again, but she almost killed the king and she repented. The king was very angry, and Sir Tristram went to live with his uncle, King Mark.

TRISTRAM AND ISOLT (chapter 7)

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Tristram fought with Sir Marhaus, prince of Ireland, and killed him, but he was wounded with poison and only in Ireland could they cure him.
Tristram traveled and fell in love with Isolt, the daughter of the King of Ireland, but she had to marry King Mark even though she was in love with Tristram.
One day Tristram and Isolt went to the beach, King Mark followed them and killed Tristram.
Later, Isolt died.
When King Arthur found out, he had King Mark killed.

SIR GALAHAD (chapter 8)

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An old man, appeared at the Round Table with a young knight, said that he would occupy the square that was reserved for the best knight, the one that had been empty for so long.
After that the man disappeared and King Arthur appointed Sir Galahad knight of the Round Table.
The other knights realized his resemblance to Sir Lancelot, and learned that he was his son.

THE GRAIL (chapter 8)

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Suddenly a white light appeared on the Round Table. It was the grail! Sir Galahad, Sir Percivale and Sir Bors went looking for him.
After many years, they found the cup in a good city.
The city had no king because he had died and had no children.
Then the old man reappeared and said to appoint Sir Galahad king.
He built a church and put the grail in it.
The old man told him that he had already fulfilled his mission, and should already die. Sir Galahad died happy.

SIR GAWAIN (chapter 9)

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King Arthur went to France with Sir Gawain because he wanted to fight Sir Lancelot, who was in France at the time.
Sir Modred, an evil knight went to Camelot to take Queen Guinevere away.
But King Arthur returned and there was a great fight. King Arthur won, but Sir Gawain was wounded, he wrote a letter to Sir Lancelot to return to Camelot to fight alongside King Arthur, and then died.

THE FIGHT (chapter 9)

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King Arthur wanted to speak to Sir Modred, but a fight arose again, King Arthur killed Sir Modred, but he hurt him, Arthur knew he was going to die, so he sent one of his knights to throw Excalibur into the lake.

THE END (chapter 9)

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The knight did not want to threw Excalibur into the lake, and left it under a stone, when he returned, the king asked him to describe how it had been, the knight said that there was a lake, a few trees ...
The king knew that he had not thrown it into the lake and asked him to return. The same thing happened several times until he finally threw her into the lake, a hand came out of it and took the sword.
After, King Arthur asked to go him to the lake, he was about to die.