ASMR | KING ARTHUR & HIS KNIGHTS: HOW ARTHUR BECAME KING by Maude L. Radford 1903 [Fireplace Ambianc

ASMR soft spoken reading of King Arthur and His Knights by Maude L. Radford, written in 1903. A fireplace is added for ambiance in the background. Listen with headphones.  The history of Arthur is so shrouded in the mists of early England that it is difficult to tell exactly who and what he was. There probably was an actual Arthur, who lived in the island of Britain in the sixth century, but he was likely not a king nor even a prince. It seems that he was a chieftain who led his countrymen to victory against the invading English about the year 500. So proud were his countrymen of his victories that they began to invent imaginary stories of his prowess to add to the fame of their hero, just as among all peoples legends soon spring up about the name of a great leader. As each man told the feats of Arthur he contributed those details that appealed most to his own fancy and each was apt to think of the hero as a man of his own time, dressing and speaking and living as his own kings and princes did, with the result that when we come to the twelfth century we find Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his History of the Kings of Britain, describing Arthur no longer as a half-barbarous Briton, wearing rude armor, his arms and legs bare, but instead as a most Christian king, the flower of medieval chivalry, decked out in all the gorgeous trappings of a knight of the Crusades. YouTube: http://bit.ly/youtubeTomebyTomeASMR Twitter: http://twitter.com/PamMcElprang  WANT MORE HORROR DURING THE WEEK? Check out my second channel, https://anchor.fm/asylumasmr/ #kingarthur #legendofkingarthur #kingarthuroftheroundtable #arthurmythology --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr/support