Ian Hislop once did a documentary in which he claimed the reason the Norman gentry popularised the king Arthur myth because it depicts the Saxons negatively, and the Anglo-Saxon commons embraced it because by the 12th century they just thought of themselves & Arthur as English. Any truth to that?
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