The Evolution of Arthurian Legends and National Identity in Wales and England

《亚瑟王纪事》中的龙事件代表了民族霸权，由于他父亲的名字彭德拉贡，亚瑟王往往被认为是龙的持有者。然而，在蒙茅斯《大英帝国史记》的杰弗里之前，早期的威尔士人倾向于将龙的徽章指定给亚瑟，而是另一位威尔士英雄。在15世纪初，英格兰西北部及其周围地区产生了各种各样的亚瑟王传奇故事。本文认为，这些传奇故事需要在接受理论的手稿语境中阅读，并指出亚瑟王传奇故事被不同程度地利用，以建立王朝合法性，但也起到了保证地方和国内稳定的作用。

The Dragon episodes in the Arthurian Chronicles represent ethnological hegemony, and because of his father's name, Pendragon, King Arthur tends to be regarded as a bearer of dragon devices. However, early Welsh sources before Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, tend not to assign the dragon emblem to Arthur, but instead to another Welsh hero.Various Arthurian romances were produced in and around the north-west of England at the turn of the fifteenth century. This paper argues that these romances require reading within a manuscript context based on reception theory, and points out that Arthurian legends were utilized variously in order to establish dynastic legitimacy but also functioned as assurances of local and domestic stability.