# First Knight was a piece of SHIT!!!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 2, 2002, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-knight-was-a-piece-of-shit/122001 "2002-08-02T12:40:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-knight-was-a-piece-of-shit/122001/41 "2002-08-15T14:54:30Z")

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> \*Originally posted by MGibson \*  
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> That doesn’t bother me so much. The legend of King Arthur has changed and been adapted in different ways by different people over the ages. It doesn’t matter if plate mail wasn’t around or the architecture is wrong for the 500’s. What really matters is that the basic story is left intact. From what I can remember the round table, Lancelot, and the code of chivalry wasn’t originally part of the legend.
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> Marc \*\*

Depends on what you mean by “originally”. Lancelot and chivalry figure prominently in the stories of Chretien de Troyes, 13th century.

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**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-knight-was-a-piece-of-shit/122001/42 "2002-08-15T16:22:37Z")

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Mmmmm…Camelot…one of my favorite movies ever. A three-hanky tear-jerker, it is!

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