I’m interested in your observations around compilation, and the prominence of other characters in the text. Having taken an Arthurian legends course I know that most of the body of legend isn’t about “him” but about how his deeds echo through the lives of people around him. This could be a really interesting phenomenon to compare across Arthurian texts and adaptations. Do we get interested in one character more at a certain time period? Do find an upswing of discourse around a certain deed or event? And I bet some cool visualizations could come out of such a project…for my Arthurian legends class I wrote my final paper on Arthurian legend as fractal-shaped. Not sure the prof bought it….