Word: syr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Arthur of Britain lived about 525 -if at all. Legend encrusted his name almost at once. Nine hundred years later the Arthurian Cycle was already decadent when "Syr Thomas Maleore Knyght" wrote his Morte d'Arthur. Another 500 years later, with Tennyson's pious allegories, Mark Twain's farce, John Erskine's sophistications, etc., King Arthur was still going strong...