Who was King Arthur and what was his importance in the medieval Celtic world? While it is possible that we will never know the complete answer to any of these questions, according to Thomas Green we can come very close to answering the second. After reading Green's “The Historicity and Historicization of Arthur,” the Arthurian sources discussed in the article seem to conclude that a historical Arthurian character is very unlikely. If pre-Galfridian material, such as the Historia Brittonum and the Annales Cambriae, is read in context as Green argues it should be, and is not methodologically exhausted in the search for evidence, then it is possible for the reader of these texts to truly gain a idea of ​​what Arthur meant to the writers of the period in which the Historia Brittonum and the Annales Cambriae were written. Readers may also discover that the Celtic people of the time were not very different from the people of our time. While almost every woman, man and child in almost every country on Earth today has heard of Superman or Batman through films and literature...