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Where do I start with the Matter of Britain, though especially the legends of King Arthur?

>> No.9785288
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>>9785284
>Where do I start

Start with the Greeks

>> No.9785303

>>9785288
You seem to have misunderstood my question. I'm not asking where I should begin studying the western canon of literature, but where within the subsection of said canon known as the Matter of Britain I should begin. I've already started with the Greek, and progressed up to the Complete Works of Plato, but I would like to move to other subjects now. I'm simply missing the link between them and the subject of this thread given the highly convoluted nature of the Matter of Britain and how it evolved between the 9th and 15th centuries, with so many different versions, a non-issue with the Greeks due to the singular incarnations of those works that have survived.

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>>9785303
>You seem to have misunderstood my question.

>> No.9785319

>>9785314
I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean, unless perhaps you're trying to be funny?

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Start with the Sumerians bro

>> No.9786543

Historia regum Britanniae
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Le Morte d'Arthur
The Mabinogion

Historia Britonnum
The Book of Taliesin
The Gododdin
The Pictish Chronicle

>> No.9787747

>>9785284
>the legends of King Arthur?
a literal cuck

>> No.9787756

>>9787747
today I will remind them

>> No.9787788

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

>> No.9787815

And what should they know of England who only England know?

>> No.9787854

>>9785350
Is this OC I've =wanted a chart like this

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>>9785284

>> No.9787878

>>9787815
The Matter of Britain wasn't written by the English