The end of King Arthur? That’s where Lev Grossman’s ‘The Bright Sword’ begins

Here’s a millennia-old spoiler for you: King Arthur is dead. 

Or maybe he isn’t, depending on who you ask.  

In T.H. White’s conclusion to his “The Once and Future King” series, it’s understood that the king will be killed by the traitor Mordred at the Battle of Camlann. In Geoffrey of Monmouth’s “Historia Regum Britanniae,” a badly wounded Arthur is carried off to the magical island of Avalon to recover, sleep and rise again when Britain needs him most. 

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