Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur Camlan where Merlin has arranged for a ship to take them away to safety. At the last minute, they are joined by Sagramor and the last of his warriors. Mordred comes for Arthur, determined to end the greatest threat to his rule by killing both him and Gwydre. In the brutal battle that follows, Arthur kills Mordred but is wounded during the fight. As the battle seems to turn in favour of Mordred's remaining warriors, an unexpected combatant arrives: Meurig's warriors have come to take Dumnonia's throne for the King of Gwent. To save Arthur and Gwydre from the latest
Historicity of King Arthur date ascribed to the "Historia Brittonum" which is usually attributed to Nennius, a Welsh ecclesiastic. "Historia Brittonum" lists 12 battles fought by Arthur and gives him the title of "dux bellorum" (war commander or leader), saying that Arthur fought "alongside the kings of the Britons", rather than that Arthur was himself a king. The list is inserted between the death of Hengist and the reign of Ida of Bernicia. Other accounts associating Arthur with the Battle of Badon can be shown to be derived directly or indirectly from the "Historia Brittonum". The earliest version of the "Annales Cambriae" was composed