Myths and legends of Britain

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Great Britain is full of surprising myths and legends. I also want to tell about some of them.

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Loch Ness Monster C ity legend , according to which the big monster lives in the Scottish lake Loch Ness.

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There is a legend on which the huge ancient monster is found in the Scottish lake Loch Ness. Still it isn't known, there is Nessie or not. But to to this day the legend attracts a great number of tourists on the lake.

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Robin Hood H ero of medieval English national songs, leader of forest robbers. According to a legend, he acted with team in Sherwood Forest about Nottingham — plundered rich and helped the poor.

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Walter Scott version according to which Robin lived in at one time with the Lion-Heart, is most very popular. But against Scott version tells many historical details: firing competitions from onions started being held in England only in the XIII century. Robin Hood — one of the few, along with king Arthur, legendary heroes of the English ballads which beyond folklore and have become important cultural reality — on subjects of ballads about it literary works are written, performances are put, numerous movies, etc.

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Legends about king Arthur “This book, about great king Arthur - forever will be the most favorite book in the world.” Merlin.

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Legends about King Arthur, about knights of a round table and Merlin- are known around the world. There is a set of books and ballads about adventures of king Camelot . Many historians argue, whether there was a prototype of king Arthur . Some consider that it there could be a real brittes king who battled to Saxons.

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“Who will pull out this sword from a stone, that by the right of the birth king over all English earth.” Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone

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The sword in the Stone - a sword bewitched by Merlin which was pulled out by young Arthur and became the King of England. The inscription on a stone said: "Who will pull out this sword from a stone, that by the right of the birth king over all English earth." Ekskalibur – the second of Arthur's swords, presented by the Lady of the Lake and returned to she after Arthur's death.

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Marylin The good and devil genius of all history about King Arthur — Marylin's wizard. He lived in time "back to front" and therefore the future was for it the opened book, but the past was concealed guarded day and night.

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Marylin-kind and the angry genius of all history about king Arthur. It the one who thought up competition on a rank of the King of England in which it was necessary to take out a sword from a stone. In one legends of Marylin - son's of a devil and the mortal woman. Marylin lived on the contrary, he saw the future, but didn't know the past. The wizard got the second sword of king Arthur in waters of the magic lake. At the end of life the sorcerer was locked in a crystal column of the Lady of the Lake and there died.