Since King Arthur died at the Battle of Camlan sometime around 505, he has been depicted as asleep, not dead. It was not unusual for artists and writers to portray great folk heroes such as Arthur and Merlin in a deep slumber, and these works seem to suggest that these heroes will awaken one day to rescue their people from oppression. Heroes, like Arthur, don’t tend to exist in the same space as us mere mortals, they live somewhere between the historical and the legendary wor