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  There are some stories that stand the rest of time. King Arthur is one of them. Camelot, the Round Table, the sword in the stone, -  these legends have been told and retold for more than a thousand years, yet they continue to change shape depending on who is telling them. Sometimes Arthur is a noble king. Sometimes he’s a flawed warlord. Sometimes the story belongs to Merlin, sometimes to Guinevere, sometimes to those that have historically been called villains.  Lately, I’ve found myself pulled back into this world again while reading The Bright Sword  by Lev Grossman  -  a modern retelling of those stories.  It sent me back through the Arthurian bookshelf of my past and made me realize just how many different versions of this story there actually are. Where It All Begins To understand the roots of Arthurian fiction, it helps to start with the original medieval source. Le Mort d’Arthur  Compiled in the 15th century by Sir Thomas M...