Which legendary medieval figure, whose story is based on facts and fiction, has been told about in literature, poetry, songs, movies and TV?

mikey40uf

My first guess would be Robin Hood. literature - Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, 1819, Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock, 1822, Robin Hood le proscrit by Alexandre Dumas, 1863. poetry - Robin Hood by John Keats http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/John_Keats/keats_robin_hood.htm songs - Oo-De-Lally, Not In Nottingham, Love, The Phony King Of England from Disney http://www.fpx.de/fp/Disney/Lyrics/RobinHood.html W. H. Birch wrote an operetta called The Merrie Men of Sherwood Forest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_in_popular_culture movies - 1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn 1976: Robin and Marian TV - 1953: Robin Hood a television series on BBC One 1984–1986: Robin of Sherwood, a fantasy-style British television series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_and_television_series_featuring_Robin_Hood May 05 10, 10:12 AM

mikey40uf

King Arthur literature - Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, The Once and Future King by T. H. White http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_about_King_Arthur poetry - Guinevere, by Alfred Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur, by Alfred Tennyson http://www.blackcatpoems.com/k/king_arthur_poems.html songs - The musicals Camelot and Spamelot are both based on the life of King Arthur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_in_various_media#Theatre movies - Monty Python and the Holy Grail, First Knight, The Sword in the Stone, a 1963 Disney http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_in_various_media#Theatre TV - BBC Series The Legend of King Arthur 1979, Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon was made into a miniseries by TNT in 2001. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_in_various_media#Theatre plenty of fiction in the above references an historical basis for King Arthur can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_basis_for_King_Arthur May 05 10, 10:21 AM

star_gazer

William Tell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell#Historicity_debate May 05 10, 2:32 PM

gmackematix

There are probably other legendary mediaeval figures that answer the question such as the ubiquitous Joan of Arc... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Joan_of_Arc ...or William Wallace, whose story was told last year in the BBC's "History of Scotland", and appears in a number of novels, poems and songs, and one very famous movie.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace May 05 10, 6:33 PM

Baloo55th

William Wallace and Joan of Arc were historical figures, which the rest of those named above weren't - so far as is currently known. The jury is out on some of them, others like William Tell appear to be purely legendary - but still highly influential. I've always wondered why more isn't done with the story of Hereward the Wake. May 06 10, 2:38 PM