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Tonight we'll read another story from our King Arthur series.

This one, Arthur drives the Saxons from his realm, comes from a book edited by Rupert S. Holland and published in 1919.

The Saxons were a group of Germanic peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large former country in what is now Germany.

In the late Roman Empire, the name was used to refer to Germanic coastal raiders and as is named similar to the later Viking.

In contrast, the British Saxons, today refer to an English as Anglo-Saxons, became a single nation bringing together migrant Germanic peoples and assimilated Celtic Britain population.

The term Anglo-Saxon, combining the names of the Angles and the Saxons, came into use by the 8th century to distinguish the Germanic inhabitants of Britain from continental Saxons.

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Now, take a few deep breaths.

Anon came word to King Arthur that Rines, King of North Wales, was making war upon King Leo de Grance of Camelgaard, where at he was passing wrath for he loved Leo de Grance well and loathed Rines.

So he departed with King's ban and boars and 20,000 men and came to Camelgaard and rescued Leo de Grance and slew 10,000 of Rines's men and put him to flight.

Then Leo de Grance made a great festival to the three kings and treated them with every manner of mirth and pleasure which could be devised.

And there had King Arthur the first sight of Guenevere, daughter of Leo de Grance, whom in the end he married, as she'll be told hereafter.

Then did King's ban and boars take leave and went to their own country, where King Claudus worked great mischief.

And King Arthur would have gone with them, but they refused him saying,

Nay, ye shall not at this time for ye have much to do in these lands of your own, and we, with the riches we have won here by your gifts, shall hire many good knights and, by the grace of God, withstand the malice of King Claudus.

When the two kings had left, King Arthur rode to Curlion, and thether came to him his half-sister, bellicent, wife to King Lot, sent as a messenger, but in truth to aspire his power, and with her came a noble red anew, and also her four sons.

But when she saw King Arthur and his nobleness, and the splendor of his knights and service, she forebore to spy upon him as a foe, and told him of her husband's plots against him and his throne.

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