A Year in Pictures – Round Table

[swan_tower]

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I have no idea why there’s a building named for King Arthur in Gdańsk. Artus Court was apparently a big social center for merchants back in the city’s medieval and Renaissance heyday; nowadays it’s a museum, and one of the upstairs rooms is dedicated to vaguely Arthurian stuff (read: weapons, armor, and tents a la a medieval tournament), complete with this Round Table. (With, um, a Tudor rose in the middle. Go figure.)

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[purplecat]

It looks to me like a copy of the round table in the Great Hall at Winchester which, if memory of my history lessons serves, was conveniently "found" by Henry VII when he wanted to legitimise his reign with links to some Arthurian past. Hence the Tudor rose because that basically proves the Tudors were Arthur's successors...

EDIT: Doesn't explain the Gdansk connection, mind.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Ah! Yes, that rings a bell . . . though I presume that means it's a later addition to the Artus Court, which was around well before Henry VII. (It's in good enough condition that for all I know, it's modern.)