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

《亚瑟王编年史》中的龙情节代表了民族霸权，由于他父亲的名字，亚瑟倾向于被认为是龙装置的携带者。然而，在杰弗里之前的蒙茅斯的《不列颠统治史》中，早期威尔士资料并没有将龙的象征赋予亚瑟，而是赋予了另一位威尔士英雄。世纪之交，英格兰西北部和周边地区出现了各种各样的亚瑟王传奇。本文认为，这些传奇故事需要阅读的手稿背景下接受理论的基础上，并指出，亚瑟王传说的各种利用，以建立王朝的合法性，但也作为地方和国内稳定的保证。

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.