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Updated: May 11, 2025
They furnished material, therefore, for countless anecdotes; by personal whims, freaks, and caprices they freed themselves at times from the new spirit of social uniformity and political legal equality. One could not reconcile such anecdote-business with the picture of the antique and medieval hero-kings.
The episode in Adam of Bremen, where the king offers the people, if they want a new god, to deify Eric, one of their hero-kings, is eminently characteristic and true.
To the Welsh mind, the age has appeared one of old unhappy far-off things, unhappy, because of their tragic ending at Camlan; but grandiose. Titanic vague figures loom up: Arthur, the type of all hero-kings; Taliesin, type of all prophet-bards; Merlin, type of magicians.
The actual Hero-Kings were long used to be silent; and the Sham-Hero kind grow only the more desperate for us, the more they speak and profess! This ANTI-MACHIAVEL of Friedrich's is a clear distinct Treatise; confutes, or at least heartily contradicts, paragraph by paragraph, the incredible sophistries of Machiavel.
The formation of the English parliament was an important step towards what we mean in America by "government of the people, for the people, and by the people." Mention the names of heroes or hero-kings of the Middle Ages. What stories have you learned about these heroes? Who was the hero-king of the English? How did he early show his love of books?
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