| Subject: A Knight in Camelot: Fact and Fancy |
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Date Posted: 11:02:46 09/19/04 Sun
A "Knight in Camelot" is an odd mix of both fact and fancy, which can be seen here.
Fancy: King of the Angles. If there was an Arthur, he was most likely a Christianized Brtish warlord who fought against the invading pagan Angles, Jutes, and Saxons.
Fact: 582 A.D. If there was an Arthur, he most likely lived
during this time.
Fancy: If 582 A.D. is approximately the correct date, the costumes and sets seen date from around the 14th century or some 800 years after the film is suppose to take place.
Fact: Trial by combat. It was often used as a way of settling the legal differences between two parties. No doubt under the assumption that God would sort things out.
Fancy: The lord's first rights on a wedding night. While Charlton Heston would base an entire film, "The War Lord," on this supposed right, and it would be a feature in other films, such as "And Now the Screaming Starts," such a right never existed.
Fact: Slavery. Indeed, slavery would exist in England up till the 18th century.
Fancy: If Clarence had seen his family slaughtered, when he was six, and it had happened thirteen years before, he should no longer be a page. While there were variations, for the most part, a boy would be kept at home until he was seven, when he would be sent to his family's overhold, where he would learn the duties of a page, until he was fourteen. He would then become a squire, and take on some more serious duties, until the age of twenty-one, when he would be knighted and become a knight. Thus, Clarence should at nineteen be a squire and not a page, and only two years away from becoming a knight.
There is one scene in the film that has a historical precedent, and we will take that up next week. Until then . . . Enjoy!
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