Knights in shining armour, damsels in distress, castles, chivalry and courtly love, heroic quests, dragons.

King Arthur, Camelot, Merlin, the Knights of the Round Table, the Holy Grail.

Think of King Arthur and the medieval romance and a huge number of images and tropes and cliches spring to mind.

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