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Title: Legends and Heroes


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Legends and Heroes
  • What is your definition of a legend? What
    examples can you give of a legend?
  • What is your definition of a hero? Is a hero a
    real person or a fictional person? What are the
    traits and qualities of a hero (think hero, not
    tragic hero).

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Arthurian Legend
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Legend (literary definition)
  • Story based in history
  • Set in a particular time and place
  • Focused on people who might have existed
  • Contain exaggerated, magical, or supernatural
    elements

4
Arthurian Legend
  • Some suggest King Arthur would have lived around
    the 5th-6th centuries
  • Stories were verbally transmitted
  • 1st datable reference to King Arthur is in the
    9th century

5
Arthurian Authors
  • MANY authors wrote about Arthur
  • Sir Thomas Malory
  • Le Morte dArthur - 1470s
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Idylls of the King - 1842

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Chivalry
  • Code of manner, honor, and courtly love
  • Duties to countrymen, God, and women

7
Duties to Countrymen Fellow Christians
  • Virtues such as mercy, courage, valor, fairness
  • Protection of the weak and the poor
  • Servant-hood of the knight to his lord
  • Willing to give ones life for anothers

8
Duties to God
  • Being faithful to God
  • Being faithful to the church
  • Protecting the innocent
  • Being the champion of good against evil
  • Obeying God above the feudal lord

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Duties to Women
  • Courtly love the idea that the knight is to
    serve a lady, and after her all other ladies
  • General gentleness and graciousness to all women
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