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  1. Ritter der Tafelrunde

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Tapestry showing Arthur as one of the Nine Worthies, wearing a coat of arms often attributed to him,[1] c. 1385 (Source: Wikimedia)
"Arthur Leading the Charge at Mount Badon" 1898 (Source: Wikimedia)
King Arthur returning from the Battle of Mons Badonis (or Mount Badon). First reference to Arthur, found in early Welsh literature. Stained glass in Llandaf Cathedral, Cardiff. (Source: Wikimedia)
Supposed former gravesite of Arthur at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset (Source: Wikimedia)
"Arturus rex" (King Arthur), a 1493 illustration from an early printed book, the Nuremberg Chronicle (Source: Wikimedia)
Detail of The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (completed 1898), by Edward Burne-Jones. Arthur sleeping in Avalon, awaiting his return. (Source: Wikimedia)
A page of Y Gododdin, one of the most famous early Welsh texts featuring Arthur (c. 1275) (Source: Wikimedia)
Culhwch entering Arthur's court in the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen. An illustration by Alfred Fredericks for an 1881 edition of the Mabinogion[65] (Source: Wikimedia)
King Arthur in a 15th-century Welsh version of the Historia Regum Britanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth (Source: Wikimedia)
During the 12th century, Arthur's character began to be marginalised by the accretion of "Arthurian" side-stories such as that of Tristan and Iseult, here pictured in a painting by John William Waterhouse (1916) (Source: Wikimedia)
The story of Arthur drawing the sword from a stone appeared in Robert de Boron's 13th-century Merlin. By Howard Pyle (1903)[97] (Source: Wikimedia)
The Round Table experiences a vision of the Holy Grail, an illumination by Évrard d'Espinques (c. 1475)[106] (Source: Wikimedia)
Arthur receiving the later tradition's sword Excalibur in N. C. Wyeth's illustration for The Boy's King Arthur (1922), a modern edition of Thomas Malory's 1485 Le Morte d'Arthur (Source: Wikimedia)
King Arthur (holding Excalibur) and Patsy in Spamalot, a stage musical adaptation of the 1975 comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Source: Wikimedia)

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