Back in college, I remember watching the movie Excalibur with some friends. There were debates about how close the movie adhered to the “true” legend of King Arthur. This actually made me to wonder exactly how the legend of King Arthur came about. A couple of weeks later, I was in a very nice used bookstore in Albuquerque and found a book that collected the few historical writings that might have inspired the legend alongside a collection of Arthurian fiction from the middle ages. It opened my e...