A Celtic King Arthur
While other films about him simply avoid the question of his belonging and show him merely as a man of superior integrity who defends Christian Britain against heathen barbarians, this TV show sees him as one of the Britons who were already in Great Britain before the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Normans came, and hence, a Celt.
Read more about this topic: Arthur Of The Britons
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