Click2Flicks - King Arthur - Chapter 1, Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</i></p> <p><i>KING ARTHUR</i></b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="267" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="243"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="243"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="king_arthur_ch2.htm">2. HADRIAN'S WALL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="243"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="king_arthur_ch3.htm">3. A TRIP TO THE WALL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="243"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="king_arthur_ch4.htm">4. A POWER VACUUM</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="243"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="king_arthur_ch5.htm">5. INVITING WOLVES INTO THE FOLD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=287 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="king_arthur_ch6.htm">6. THE ANGLO-SAXON INVASIONS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="king_arthur_ch7.htm">7. ANGLO-SAXON WARS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="king_arthur_ch8.htm">8. BRITONS FIGHT BACK</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="king_arthur_ch9.htm">9. ARTHUR AND HIS WORLD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="263"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="king_arthur_ch10.htm">10. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">When Rome left <a href="http://www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk/01TimelineRomanConquest.htm" target="_blank"><b>its province</b></a> of Britannia for good <a href="http://www.encyclopedie-universelle.com/images/grande-bretagne-carte-generale-rome.gif" target="_blank"><b>in 410 A.D.</b></a>, after more than three centuries of rule, the native population had little protection against intruders.</p> <p>Thirty years later (or so), looking for help outside their own boundaries, native Britons (a <a href="http://www.gallica.co.uk/celts/" target="_blank"><b>Celtic people</b></a> who inhabited the country known today as England) had little choice. Scholars believe Britons living in Ceint (today’s Kent) <a href="http://www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk/04TimelineRomansandAnglians.htm#400" target="_blank"><b>hired</b></a> German-Danes <a href="http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/articles/immig.html" target="_blank"><b>from</b></a> Angulus (the Angles) and Germans from Saxony (the Saxons) to work as mercenaries. Their pay? Briton land.</p> <p>Had those early Britons envisioned what could happen when mercenaries (invited or not) <a target="_blank" href="images/reached.gif"><b>reached</b></a> their shores, perhaps they would have looked elsewhere (or nowhere) for help. One thing is certain: Requests for Anglo-Saxon help ultimately led to <a href="http://www.ccel.org/b/bede/history/htm/v.i.xiv.htm" target="_blank"><b>unwelcome</b></a> invasions which forever <a href="http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~sctwiseh/DECB/GildasianBritain.gif" target="_blank"><b>changed</b></a> <a href="http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~sctwiseh/DECB/DECBmap585.html" target="_blank"><b>Britannia</b></a> and <a href="http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~sctwiseh/DECB/DECBmap660.html" target="_blank"><b>her</b></a> <a href="http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~sctwiseh/DECB/DECBmap945.html" target="_blank"><b>people</b></a>.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="king_arthur_ch2.htm"><b>GO TO CHAPTER 2</b></a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>