How much do you really know about this so called King Arthur? King Arthur is the legendary figure from the sword in the stone a story by Hudson Talbott. Though the real question posed is was he a real person or just a myth told over time. Yes, I believe King Arthur wasn’t just a myth, although I do think that over time the story was altered… here is why. Scholars believed that Arthur was indeed a real person who lived in Britain around either 400 or 500 AD. Poets also wrote stories about this legendary figure, and these stories were matched as being written during the same time period that Arthur was said to be alive. There were many different versions of this story as time passed on. How come you may ask? Well, just like the game Telephone