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Geoffrey of Monmouth
ExcaliburThe name Excalibur did not exist in the earliest Welsh tales where the weapon was known as Caledfwlch, a compound of words meaning hard and cleft.
Matter of BritainThe 12th-century French poet Jean Bodel coined a name that would define the literary landscape of medieval Europe, declaring that all stories fell into one…