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Arthurian legends (tales related to the character of King Arthur) derive from many often contradictory sources, such as Vita Sancti Cadoci, composed around 11th century, and Lanval from the late 12th century. Sir Thomas Malory's 15th-century text Le Morte d'Arthur was an attempt to compile these stories into coherent narrative. Many of Malory's sources derive from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, written in the 1130s. While neither History nor any works that predate it mention Arthur's famous Round Table at which his knights assembled, Le Morte d'Arthur does, suggesting that _________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

• A.

  Geoffrey of Monmouth's accounts of Arthurian legends in History are more similar overall in content to the accounts in Lanval than they are to the accounts in Le Morte d'Arthur.

• B.

  Malory encountered the Round Table in a source that was written sometimes after the 1130s.

• C.

  Le Morte d'Arthur is more historically accurate than History, because Lanval had not been written when Geoffrey of Monmouth was writing his work.

• D.

  when a version of an Arthurian legend contradicted the version in History, Malory preferred to include Geoffrey of Monmouth's version in Le Morte d'Arthur.