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King Arthur &
The Knights of The Round Table
King Arthur's
Round Table has become a symbol for equality and just government.
Geoffrey of
Monmouth makes no mention of a Round Table in his History of Arthur.
It was the
French monk Robert Wace, writing around 1155, who was the first to mention this
piece of furniture in his Roman de Brut. Supposed Round Tables sites in
Wace says that
Arthur's knights sat around a round table while Arthur sat on a dais, above the
Round Table. The idea here was that the knights were all equal but Arthur was
still the king. Wace doesn't tell us how many knights sat around
the table.
A few years
later, an Englishman named Layamon in his chronicle places Arthur's court in
that could
seat 1,600 men and be folded up and taken anywhere.
Allowing two feet for each person seated, this
would give us a circumference of 3200
feet and a diameter of 1019 feet which is about the length of 3 football
pitches.
Robert de
Boron tells us how Merlin ordered Uther Pendragon to construct the table based
on his vision of the Last Supper Table and Joseph of Arimathea's Grail Table.
Merlin
instructed Uther to have the table accommodate 50 chairs; he also said to leave
one chair blank, for the knight who would fulfill the Grail Quest. The Vulgate
Cycle says the Round Table sat 250 knights.
The Vulgate
Cycle introduces the idea of the Siege Perilous, continuing the empty-chair
theory but adding to it the caveat that anyone not anointed would perish after
sitting there. Galahad, of course, was the only one able to sit there; it was
he who fulfilled the Grail Quest.
The Siege
Perilous is the seat (from the French siège) at the Round Table in which only
the chosen Grail knight may sit without disastrous consequences. Malory tells
us that it was made by Merlin ). When Galahad arrives at Camelot,
his name
appears on the seat destined for him.
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