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Arthurian legends (tales related to the character of King Arthur) derive from many sources, such as Preiddeu Annwfn, composed around 900, and the Mabinogion from the 12th and 13th centuries. One of the most significant sources, Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, was written in Latin in the 1130s; some material from it was later adapted by the Norman poet Wace into the Roman de Brut in 1155. But while the Roman de Brut includes references to the famous Round Table at which Arthur's knights assembled, those seem to be Wace's own inventions, which suggests that _________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

• A.

  no Arthurian legend that was available to Geoffrey of Monmouth had any mention of the Round Table.

• B.

  Geoffrey of Monmouth was unaware of stories of the Round Table when composing his History, though historians know that works containing such stories were available to him.

• C.

  Geoffrey of Monmouth's accounts of Arthurian legends in his History are more similar overall in content to the accounts in the Mabinogion than they are to the accounts in Roman de Brut.

• D.

  Roman de Brut is more historically accurate than History, because the Mabinogion had not been written when Geoffrey of Monmouth was writing his work.