History Headscratchers / ArthurianLegend

** My guess is that the association came from the historical basis for Arthur being either Roman or a Romanized Briton and Roman armies of the time moving faster than their opponents (what with them having larger light and heavy cavalry components than their predecessors) and having brought UpToEleven their ancestors' fascination for [[RainOfArrows raining pointy death on their enemies]].

** In T.H. White's "The Once and Future King", the Grail Quest is used by Arthur to try to divert the violent nature of his knights for something spiritual. In Camelot, they were getting restless and increasingly vengeance obsessed.
** In Tennyson's "Idylls of the King", on the other hand, Arthur is horrified by the Grail's apparition, as he knows it will tear apart the Table. It is Galahad's quest, but the vision with which the task manifested sparked a zeal (or feigned zeal for fashion's sake) from the other knights.

{{Fanra}}: Arthur. So determined to bring about this new Rule of Law idea that he lets himself be used by evil people in the guise of upholding the law. Ok, so you tend to see that Arthur isn't very bright. In fact, he seems TooDumbToLive sometimes. He thinks that because he is good, that everyone is. His son will love him if he just is nice to him. Really, you think he should show up on Jerry Springer with, "Parents who let their children walk all over them".

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* Meta-question. Is there any actual mythological basis for the association of Arthur and Excalibur with the element of wind? Because I do seem to run into that a lot. To give a few examples: In VisualNovel/FateStayNight, which features a gender-flipped Arthur, Excalibur is blessed by a spirit of wind, hiding the blade behind storms so the enemy cannot discern its true identity or exact size, also useable as a storm-based attack. In [[SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Black Knight]], Sonic, revealed to be the "true" King Arthur in the end, is dubbed the Knight of the Wind. And in Franchise/FireEmblem, it's a recurring thing to have wind spells named after the blade, most notably the Excalibur spell, though there's also Aircalibur and Rexcalibur. I do realize the latter are just bad puns, but still. So, anyone?

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