History YMMV / ArthurianLegend

--> '''Red''': So, the moral of this complex, century-spanning story is: if Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot had all just been honest about their feelings and entered into a [[OneTrueThreesome mutually supportive romantic relationship]], we could have called it a [[IncrediblyLamePun poly-armoury]]. Thank you and good night! ''*cut to credits*''

* CommonKnowledge: Arthur's domain is typically depicted as Camelot, actually his capital, or England, which is an anachronism. In the romances his domain is sometimes called Logres [[note]](probably from the medieval Welsh term ''Lloegyr'', referring to roughly the area of Britain that became southwest England, and in modern Welsh ''Lloegr'' refers to England as a whole)[[/note]] and its greatest extent encompasses the entire island of Britain, Ireland, the entire Orkney archipelago, the Gallic region of Armorica, and more. Related to this is that he's sometimes called King of England, despite the Legend predating the concept of England and being set when there was only Britain.

* MagnificentBitch: [[TheMagnificent Morgan(a) La Fey]] serves as [[ArchEnemy the most persistent and well-known adversary]] to Myth/KingArthur and Queen Guinevere. Once depicted as a benevolent healer in the court, later portrayals turn her into the cunning, manipulative, and dangerous person well-known in popular culture. Always scheming to find some way to ruin the two, one of Morgan's more famous plans involved using the feud of two brothers, sending out a fake damsel to convince Arthur to duel as one of their champions, and planting fake scabbard to give her lover the best chance at slaying Arthur. She's not above using her spells or lying to escape certain capture either. Oftentimes, she approached victory only to have unforeseen circumstances thwart her such as Nimue removing the poison from a token of "atonement" or Iseult spilling the drinking horn that should have exposed Guinevere's infidelity instead. Eventually [[HeelFaceTurn reconciling with Arthur]] and being there when he's taken to Avalon, Morgan La Fey nonetheless imprinted herself as one of the most famous examples of an EvilSorceress in medieval literature.

** Is Mordred a rebellious and treacherous son or victim of fate? Moreover in even older tales where he's Arthur's legitimate nephew and not his son, was his takeover him enacting a grab for power or him just acting as a regent in his uncle's absence? The earliest tales say he and Arthur fell during a battle but were they fighting each other or were they on the same side? The text was extremely vague.

* ValuesDissonance: While par for the course with any old legend, there is one particular one that changes tied to the portrayals of quests and combat prowess: in the old Welsh legends, adventures and quests are group activities (Arthor himself is almost never without his PowerTrio of himself, Cai, and Bedwyr) and there is [[CombatPragmatist nothing wrong with ganging up on bad guys]], while the later Romance takes almost exclusively focus on single warrior adventures that are stuffed to the gills with jousting and even the villains tend to follow MookChivalry.

* CommonKnowledge: Arthur's domain is typically depicted as Camelot, actually his capital, or England, which is an anachronism. In the romances his domain is sometimes called Logres [[note]](probably from the medieval Welsh term ''Lloegyr'', referring to roughly the area of Britain that became southwest England, and in modern Welsh ''Lloegr'' refers to England as a whole)[[/note]] and its greatest extent encompasses the entire island of Britain, Ireland, the entire Orkney archipelago, the Gallic region of Armorica, and more.

** In the Vulgate Merlin, where Arthur supposedly "tricked" Morgause into sleeping with him, it was revealed that Morgause actually loved Arthur and apparently more than her own husband. Since she had her own children fight against King Lot for the sake of Arthur. While in the Vulgate Estoire del Saint Grail, which predates the Vulgate Merlin, it was Morgause who seemingly tricked Arthur into sleeping with her despite knowing that they were related. Or at least, Arthur believed that he was sleeping with his crush from Ireland. Albeit, they were both grief stricken, but the author never claimed that Morgause believed that she was sleeping with her husband. Nonetheless this seems to be the reason why Morgause engineers the incest herself in most modern accounts. While according to others, and possibly the original incest account, it was just good old adultery. Though in earlier accounts, Lot was the true and original father of Mordred.