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One of the speakers recalled reading it in college, describing the language as a modernized middle English that was tough to read, but it was also the basis for the film 'Excalibur'.
And the big one that I'm going to talk about is Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, The Death of Arthur.
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One of the speakers recalled reading it in college, describing the language as a modernized middle English that was tough to read, but it was also the basis for the film 'Excalibur'.
And the big one that I'm going to talk about is Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, The Death of Arthur.
And I remember reading it and I was like, oh, my God, I'm going to die. I'm going to die.
And it turns out I could because that was that movie was specifically based on the death of Arthur.
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One of the speakers recalled reading it in college and found it challenging but acknowledged its significance in shaping the Arthurian legend.
And the big one that I'm going to talk about is Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, The Death of Arthur. And I read this in college.
And it was tough. It was sort of like a bit of a modernized middle English. Yeah. It wasn't quite Chaucer. Wasn't that tough. But it was still a tough read.
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One of the speakers recalled reading this book in college, describing it as a difficult read due to the language and its focus on the Christian elements of the Arthurian legend.
And the big one that I'm going to talk about is Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, The Death of Arthur. And I read this in college.
It was sort of like a bit of a modernized middle English. Yeah. It wasn't quite Chaucer. Wasn't that tough. But it was still a tough read.
And I remember thinking at the time, can I just watch Excalibur?
And he he he also kind of took the the focus off of the Celtic pagan mythology and really focused it onto the Christian mythology.
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It was described as a tough read, even in a modernized version of Middle English, and that the movie *Excalibur* was based on it.
the big one that most of our modern stories are based on is Thomas Maleries Limorte, Dorther, the death of Arthur and I read this in college. Oh yeah and it was tough.
And it turns out it could because that was that movie was specifically based on the death of Arthur.
