Firelord is a historical fantasy novel by Parke Godwin, published in 1980. It is a retelling of the King Arthur legend.Godwin tells the story of King Arthur from a historically accurate perspective, based on research and u0026 his own archeological trips to various parts of England. The novel has Arthur dictating a memoir to a friar at a monastery. A flashback leads thru his formative years and u0026 his 1st meeting with Merlin. Godwin takes the traditional story and u0026 makes it his own, from more historically accurate regional names for the main characters such as Artos for Arthur and u0026 Ancellius for Lancelot, to changing key relationships. Lancelot is no longer the best friend, Bedivere Ap Griffin is. Gweniver is also updated and u0026 modernized, possibly patterned after Queen Elizabeth I of England, as Godwin borrows from one of Queen Elizabeth’s most famous speeches for a passage in which Arthur forsakes Morgana, his lover, and u0026 accepts the responsibilities of Kingship at the cost of personal happiness, just as Elizabeth so famously did during her reign.

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