Those adventures of particular heroes have sometimes a sort of arthurian link, but they really have no more to do with the main arthurian story than if Arthur were not.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
And the author of De Nugis Curialium, different as it is from the arthurian story, could have finally divined the latter.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Then, in the latter half of the fifteenth century, the most famous of all the arthurian stories was given to the world in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur.
"Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion"
Beatrice Clay