雙語故事:亞瑟王的故事

King Arthur

The story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table has been one of the most popular stories in world literature. Writers have told of Arthur's brave deeds and the adventures of his knights for hundreds of years.

There probably was a real King Arthur, who led the British People in battles against the Anglo-Saxon invaders in the late 5th century and early 6th century, though historians know little about him. The real King Arthur probably won some victories over the Anglo-Saxons, but he was not nearly as great as the King Arthur of the stories. In the Middle Ages people loved to hear stories of great warriors told by storytellers who travelled around. These storytellers passed on the earliest tales about Arthur by word of mouth. They told the stories of Authur and his knights as though they were knights of the Middle Ages, wearing the kind of armour that was worn by knights of the Middle Ages and following the set of rules of behaviour called chivalry.

亞瑟王的故事

亞瑟王與圓桌騎士的故事在世界文學中名氣很大。幾百年來，很多作家和詩人都曾從這個故事系列中汲取題材。

亞瑟王可能確有其人，雖然歷史學家對他知之不多。他曾在五世紀末和六世紀初率領不列顛人反抗盎格魯克遜人的入侵，取得過一些小規模的勝利，但決不可能像亞瑟王故事中所描寫的那樣了不起。中世紀的老百姓喜歡聽遊呤詩人講武士的歷險故事。亞瑟王的故事就是通過這些遊呤詩人的口述流傳下來的。在這些故事裏，亞瑟王和他的騎士們被描述成了中世紀的人物，身披中世紀武士的鎧甲、講求中世紀的騎士道.