ABSTRACT
The Bretons, and the Chronicles of Arthur tell how King Arthur, with the help of a Cornish carpenter invented the wonder of his court, the miraculous Round Table, seated round which, the knights no longer fought. Formerly, 'out of sordid envy,' in stupid struggles, duels and murders stained with blood the finest banquets. The carpenter said to Arthur:" I will make you a very beautiful table, around which sixteen hundred and more can sit, and move around, and from which no-one will be excluded....1
