<P> Green attempted to weave together the many legends surrounding King Arthur in a single narrative, claiming that Thomas Malory's version of the story, Le Morte d'Arthur, was a loose collection of separate stories . Green attempted to relate each legend so that the entire story would have a beginning, middle and end . Green used many sources in addition to Malory . </P> <P> After Uther Pendragon's death, Merlin the magician forms a stone and in it a sword . On this sword it is written that anyone who can pull it out of the stone will become the new King of England . After many years, the young Arthur, secretly the son of Uther Pendragon, pulls the sword out of the stone and becomes King . Together with Merlin, he constructs a round table, at which only the best knights of England may sit . More and more knights come to join the brotherhood of the Round Table, and each has his own adventures . </P> <P> Eventually, the holy knight Galahad, the son of Sir Lancelot, comes to Arthur's court . With his coming, all the knights ride throughout Europe in search of the Holy Grail of Jesus Christ . Only four knights see the Grail: Sir Lancelot, Sir Percival, Sir Bors de Gaunnes, and Sir Galahad . </P> <P> After the Grail is found, the last battle of the Knights of the Round Table is fought . In this battle many knights die, and with them King Arthur, Sir Gawain, who is Arthur's nephew, and Mordred, the wicked son of King Arthur, and his half - sister Morgana le Fay . King Arthur is taken away to Avalon, a secret island after he is terribly wounded by Mordred while he was making the final stab with his sword to kill Mordred . </P>

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