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I've been reading John Steinbeck's translation of the Winchester Manuscript text of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. And there's one thing bothering me, and maybe it's just influence from TV and "common knowledge." In Steinbeck's book, the Round Table seats ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY KNIGHTS! I don't recall it being that big in other things that I've read, but I could easily be wrong. I definitely haven't read Malory, I have a feeling that someone out there has....

Can anyone clarify this for me?

Date: 2006-02-14 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greyweirdo.livejournal.com
I don't remember anything like that number. Here is a web site with some info.

http://www.kingarthursknights.com/knights/default.asp

Well, Encyolopedia mythica has 150 spaces mentioned

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/k/knights_of_the_round_table.html

Date: 2006-02-14 03:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nausicaa1.livejournal.com
Hm. That would have to be a big damn table. Maybe it was like a ring, hollow inside to facilitate serving wenches bringing more mead. Or something.

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