wizzard890:

in 1113 two French canons nearly sparked a riot in Cornwall when they intimated to the locals that King Arthur was in fact legitimately dead and not returning from the grave anytime soon. according to a contemporary chronicler, “many men rushed into the church with arms”, and “it would certainly have come to the spilling of blood” if the French hadn’t invoked the ancient right of take-backs.

and you thought you went hard for fictional characters.