99) Epic ~ King Arthur's Excalibur

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As I am from North Cornwall in England, home of the Arthurian Legend, one has no choice but to portray my local myth mixed with local fact. My local school was at Camelford... Anything to do with Camelot and the River Camel do we think? Hell yeah!
As an Epic this will be uploaded piece by piece during the Journey to the Poem Challenge End.


Epic Description:

A long narrative poem in elevated stature presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.
The hero generally participates in a cyclical journey or quest, faces adversaries that try to defeat him in his journey and returns home significantly transformed by his journey. The epic hero illustrates traits, performs deeds, and exemplifies certain morals that are valued by the society the epic originates from. Many epic heroes are recurring characters in the legends of their native culture.

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