Il cavallo nella leggenda di Artù nell’Etna

Autore: Eliana Creazzo
In: Critica del testo. XX/2, 2017
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Abstract

In the Legend of Arthur in Etna the horse plays the role of an animal guide towards the Other world represented by the Sicilian volcano, where king Arthur survives in a fairy castle after the Camlann’s battle. In the light of this mythological theme, the article describes the various texts that make up the legend, starting with the Otia imperialia by Gervasio of Tilbury, and then dwelling on two modern stories of “Artus in the Etna” contained in a collection of local folk tales, in which the representation of the horse finds wider articulation and new dimensions.