-1 Alan Caswell English 4 Dr. Bailey September 17, 2000 Switched The story of King Arthur's youth is also one of a changeling. A changeling was a myth of how troll like creatures would steal beautiful healthy human babies and trade them for their own babies who were supposedly hideous and deformed in some shape or form (we now know better that these children had birth defects). These troll creatures would supposedly gather near grassy knolls, wells, hollowed …showed first 75 words of 257 total…

…showed last 75 words of 257 total…to him. Arthur's true parents never learned the truth that their son was to become King and pull the sword from the stone. Arthur's half sisters however did find out and tried to ruin his life as well as his kingdom, Camelot. So Arthur was taken from his crib and never returned, his parents were never the wiser and assumed he had been taken by trolls. He was assumed to be a changeling. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**