Who Was the Real King Arthur?

Who was the real King Arthur? A Welsh history from around the year 830 calls him a war leader who fought twelve battles, and never calls him a king. The sword in the stone, the Round Table and Camelot were built over the next thousand years on top of a single line about his death at Camlann. This episode asks why people needed him, and why the once and future king never quite dies.In this episode:Arthur in the oldest Welsh records: the twelve battles, "though he was no Arthur," and the strife of CamlannConceived through a deception and raised in another man's house as the boy who fetches and carriesThe sword in the stone: every knight in the land heaved at it, and a boy running an errand for his brother lifted it out"Rightwise king born," and what the words on the stone are asking forThe Round Table, and the king who couldn't see what was breaking in his own houseThe once and future king, and how Henry VII and Henry VIII dressed themselves up as himWhere are you still standing back from the stone, telling yourself the sword is for someone else?

And what's breaking in your own house while you hold up the kingdom?The episode draws on my book Forging Excalibur. If you want to see what keeps you back from the stone, start with the Atlas. The Atlas names the pattern running your life in a single sitting. It takes about forty-five minutes and costs nothing. Begin at codexofthearchitect.com, or here: https://app.codexofthearchitect.com/get-started?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=pod-535This is the fourth of five episodes on the stories that won't die.

Excalibur is Ep 533. Next, the last of the run: Merlin (Ep 536).If this stirred something up, leave a comment wherever you're listening.

How this page was made: the text is the episode's own show notes from The Architect Speaks, written by Michael Lauria.