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CS Lewis had a character say Arthurian legend had a division between "very British" characters like Morgan & "not very" British ones like Lancelot. He says this reflects a division in 5th c. Britain between Romanized nobles & nonRomanized Britons. Is this based on 20th cent Arthurian scholarship?

by /u/ArmandoAlvarezWF in /r/AskHistorians

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