Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1636709-20180318221644

I'm honestly curious: the mythos is arguably more spread and influential than Egypt and Nordic mythos at times (at least I feel you can probably get more people to name Arthurian characters than Norse Gods on the street), and have some Celtic myth influence, but at the same time they have real world writers adding onto them (Lancelot was a Crusades era French writer's Original Character, Do Not Steal, for example).

Plus in some tellings Arthur also fought Romans, which brings the amusing image of Roman spirits complaining about the guy.

You can also extend this question to Journey to the West, which was a similarly influencial work in the East that came later, but the influence of it is similarly everywhere.  