The legends about King Arthur and the Holy Grail, the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper, have taken shape in the 16th century. During this time, French and German poets were concerned with the creation of large epic poems based on common issues.
King Arthur and the Knights of The Round Table represents the historical period where the truth is missing, the armor the knights wore was invented a few centuries after. Also, the idea of a shiny gold chalice, with divine powers to save the earth and to raise the dead, is actually a total deviation from the real meaning of the Grail. READ MORE
