Le Morte d'Arthur

It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him along time. CHAPTER XX. How it was told Sir Launcelot that Dagonet chased King Mark, and how a knight overthrew him and six knights. After wicked King Vortigern had first invited the Saxons to settle in Britain and help him to fight the Picts and Scots, the land was never long at peace. KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messenger, and cried aloud- "Arise, Lord King, for the enemy is come; even Ambrosius and Uther, upon whose throne thou sittest-and full twenty thousand with them-and they have sworn by a great oath, Lord, to slay thee, ere this year be done; and even now they march towards thee as the north wind of winter for bitterness and haste." AT the vigil of Pentecost, when all the fellowship of the Round Table were come unto Camelot and there heard their service, and the tables were set ready to the meat, right so entered into the hall a full fair gentlewoman on horseback, that had ridden full fast, for her horse was all besweated. It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. IT BEFELL IN THE DAYS of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. Then Ulfius was glad, and rode on more than a pace till that he came to King Uther Pendragon, and told him he had met with Merlin. «Αν δὲ μπορεῖς νὰ ἐξηγήσεις τὸ λόγο γιὰ τὸν ὁποῖο ἔχεις τῆν ἀσπίδα, δὲν εἶσαι ἄξιος νὰ φέρεις ὅπλα», εἶπε ὁ βασιλιᾶς Ἀρθοῦρος. IT befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. King Uther Pendragon, ruler of all Britain, had been at war for many years with the Duke of Tintagil in Cornwall when he was told of the beauty of Lady Igraine, the duke's wife. 'And if so be ye can descrive what ye bear, ye are worthy to bear the arms.' ΣΥΝΕΒΗ στὶς μέρες τοῦ Οὔθερ Πεντράγκον, ὅταν βασίλευε σ' ὁλόκληρη τὴν Ἀγγλία, νὰ ζεῖ στὴν Κορνουάλη ἕνας δοῦκας ισχυρὸς ποὺ πολὺν καιρὸ πολεμοῦσε ἐναντίον του.