Hey Vort, is it a good thing being cool? Sometimes the language barrier still hampers me. *g*

Atalanta, yes, I think that's the appeal of King Arthur, even enhanced by the fact that so little is known of him and so we're able to project on him what we wish to see. I think I've always been fascinated by stories about Arthur's times because they are stories of a changing world. Even filtered by later retellings, they always possess a melancholy of the ending of an era and the beginning of a new one that appeal to me. The probably utterly unhistorical image of Excalibur plunging back into the lake is to me very symbolic.